The Process
Running time	3:01
Appears on	Inferno (2026)
Next	You Retreat In Time And Space
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"The Process" is the sixteenth track on Boards of Canada's fifth studio album, Inferno.

Comments

• "The Process" could refer to The Process Church of the Final Judgment, which was a brief controversial religious group that was established in 1966 and disappeared sometime in the mid-to-late 1970s. The Process was the title of the group's self-titled magazine.
• Additionally, the title could also refer to Process theology, which is a philosophical-theological movement inspired by mathematician Alfred North Whitehead, which claims that God is constantly evolving and deeply connected with the universe, which contradicts traditional theism, which views God, as unchanging and all powerful.
• Intentional or not, the female TTS voice that can be heard in the track largely resembles Automated Passenger Information System (PIS) TTS voices, which are used in train stations to automatically communicate and announce real-time travel information and safety alerts to passengers.

Samples / Lyrics

• The track contains lyrics that seem to be spoken by a synthetic female voice. From what can be heard, they seem to be nonsensical strings of babble, such as "we noticed the required although they were refreshingly piped and" and "between various Grecian Bishops, it should be vastly seductive." The table below lists two transcription attempts, words and sentences appearing in both transcriptions are bolded.

Comparison of possible transcriptions

	bocpages version by an anonymous contributor	Genius version by various contributors
1	With religion, the mind has something ever cast	[?] right at that [?] has shown [?]
2	It was once every serial after the southeast doc you worry	It was once every serial, laughter, southeast Dōtonbori
3	We have a pro rest seed that fantasy or pre-coronation path	We have [?] fantasy or pre-coronation path
4	Queried and online there	Queried and online there
5	A lecture full adaptively by the million	They lecture though adapted through [?]
6	Worldly lie or the loser fine at least a quarter veterinarian	World will wonder or the [?] mass deploy dead mirror
7	Fair, big pro quest to them move Tristan off his atrocities	There, fifth hope was to burn [?] and all his atrocities
8	We notice the acquired although they were refreshing the pipe and	We noticed the required although they were refreshingly piped and
9	I liked you without her robe intricately stronger	I wager without her road intricately stronger
10	Slot one, a lady whatever do the tits offhand?	Sloppily alight, whatever do they tilt often?
11	Between various Grecian bishops	Between various Grecian Bishops
12	It should be vastly seductive from their aromatic ride	It should be vastly seductive from their aeromatic rider
13	Or in defined lust who has comprehensively induced him	And defined lest she has comprehensively induced him
14	Acoustically this plus end question through that, discriminating better the deeper	Acoustically, this plus unquestionably that discriminating better redeemer
15	They have the magical discharge	They have the magical discharge
16	They have directed it down our pal defendant	The rusting have directed it down our palatability
17	With the remains on Cob's shotshell	With lease uncalled shot shelf
18	He must be profoundly nibble only with the key powder and roll	He must be profoundly rippled underneath his intelligently [?]

• Sounds of rioting, unrest and police radio chatter can be heard in the beginning and underneath the text-to-speech voice.
• At 0:12, the track contains a sample of the Russian shortwave radio station UVB-76, recorded on February 21st, 2006. Known more widely as "The Buzzer", its broadcast consists of a repeating buzzing sound, which reserves the frequency. This buzzing is occasionally interrupted by short strings of numbers and text, like the one sampled on the track, which are presumed to be codes intended for military and/or intelligence purposes. This also appears to have been sampled on the VHS tapes mailed to fans prior to the release of Inferno.
• During the piano section of the track, what seems to be birds chirping can be heard, accompanied by garbled voices of children, which are a reoccurring element in the duo's past work.

Trivia

• The melody in the piano section of this track bears a resemblance to a reoccurring piano melody in the docuseries "Waco: Madman or Messiah", which is about the Waco Branch Davidian standoff and siege. Boards of Canada have referenced this incident many times.
• The synth sound in the track starting at 2:21 is reminiscent of the sound that could be heard throughout "Corsair" from Boards of Canada's 2002 album Geogaddi.

See Also

• VHS tapes