Revision as of 11:03, 3 August 2019

Societas x Tape is a 2 hour mixtape by Boards of Canada broadcast Sunday 23rd June 2019 on NTS Radio as part of WxAxRxP, Warp Records 30th anniversary celebration event. Mostly consisting of tracks by other artists, the mix was described by NTS as "a two-hour selection of mind melting offbeat psychedelia".

Tracks

1. Intro (short wave radio scan, "astrophysics, medicine, biology and technology") (0:00)
2. Jasper Van't Hof - Associations (0:32)
3. coL - This Flat Earth (3:31)
4. Interlude (ambient/drone) (6:27)
5. Heldon - Une Drole de Journee (6:40)
6. Interlude (7:06)
7.  ? (7:09)
8. Killing Joke - Unspeakable (Demo) (9:20)
9. Dolphins Into The Future - Untitled (A3) (11:47)
10. Dolphins Into The Future - Untitled (B1) (12:10)
11. Victrola - Maritime Tatami (13:49)
12. George Duke - Vulcan Mind Probe (18:10)
13. Flayer - Wanna Get Back Your Love (Mix 1) (20:53)
14.  ? (24:30)
15. Doxa Sinistra - The Other Stranger (25:14)
16. Interlude (WGBH Boston TV Logo, "your choice, five") (28:26)
17. Paul Hart - Prospect (28:44)
18. M. S. Subbulakshmi - Srimannarayana (31:44)
19. Esplendor Geometrico - Regeneración (34:00)
20. Interlude ("get a shot of protection, every ill, the swine flu shot") (35:58)
21.  ? (bass, synth, drum machine, piano), "thank you for not smoking" (36:22)
22. Hell Interface - Untitled Remix (Grace Jones - Slave To The Rhythm, Imagination - Just an Illusion, Aquarius) (37:59)
23. Interlude (car rental ad - "anything, from an Astra to a Merc, and no mileage charge neither") (40:42)
24. Jupiter Prophet - 35.000 Feet (Challenger's Theme) (40:50)
25.  ? (drum, discordant noises) (42:10)
26. Interlude (Fausto Papetti - Un Homme Et Une Femme, Minute Maid Bing Crosby orange juice ad) (44:13)
27. Devo - Shrivel Up (45:43)
28. Stefan Zauner - Billy Miller (48:41)
29. Interlude ("here in the wind tunnel, the fearful forces"... "and one day, we shall know") (54:02)
30. These Trails - Garden Botanum (54:24)
31. Interlude ("here in the wind tunnel, the fearful forces"... "and one day, we shall know") (56:26)
32. Dreamers Cloth - The Coconut Pearl (B2) (57:03)
33. Pauline Oliveros - Bye Bye Butterfly (59:22)
34. Interlude (short wave radio scan) (59:43)
35. Alan Parker - The Free Life (59:52)
36. Egberto Gismonti - Jardim de Prazeres (1:02:04)
37. Interlude ("mother goddess of the world"... "diagonal") (1:04:42)
38. Horrific Child - L'Estrange Mr Whinster (Frayeur, Angoisse) (1:05:08)
39. Severed Heads - We Have Come To Bless The House (1:06:45)
40. Morgan Page - Heartbeat (1:10:10)
41. Interlude (Casiotone 202 demo) (1:10:29)
42. Filmmaker - Crow Mask (1:10:58)
43. Suraiya - Ek Tu Ho Ek Main Hoon (1:13:58)
44. Yellow Magic Orchestra - Light in Darkness (1:16:13)
45. Hajime Tachibana ‎- XP41 (1:17:50)
46. Lena Platonos - Bloody Shadows from Afar (1:18:38)
47.  ? ("soon the queen will come our way") (1:21:54)
48.  ? ("seems a long time ago") (1:22:43)
49. Creed Taylor Orchestra - Heartaches (1:25:30)
50. Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft - Osten Währt am Längsten (1:26:20)
51.  ? (piano, strings, synth) (1:29:17)
52.  ? (1:31:28)
53.  ? (piano, synth) (1:33:52)
54. Christian Chevalier - Strange Pop (1:37:17)
55. Colourbox - Tarantula (12” Version 1) (1:40:36)
56. 33.10.3402 - Kanap (1:43:51)
57. Interlude (The Elegants - Little Star) (1:48:00)
58. One Foundation - Dance With Us Lord (1:49:59)
59.  ? (ambient) (1:51:45)
60.  ? (strings) (1:54:51)
61. Bruce Haack - Angel Child (1:55:23)
62. Christian Chevallier - Sea Cathedral (1:56:23)

Notes

• Track times are from the actual start of mixtape, excluding NTS indent
• Artwork is a vintage photograph of a band playing at the Tomorrowland Terrace in Disneyland, California, dated from the 1970s
• The band in the photograph is playing under a coke sign, "Cement, Gravel, and Rock Co.", could possibly be the name of the act on stage.

Lyrics

• Track at 1:21:54

On the hill starts a bright new day
Soon the queen will come our way
The hillside's our place to share
A place to grow, love and care

• Post-punk track at 1:22:43

Is there someone who can understand the things that he says
And there was something he once said to me, a long time ago
Something I never quite understood, something that seems so strange
It seems a long time ago, such a long time ago
And will things ever change?
No things don't ever change

This can since mean nothing to him now, he can take his time
the faces all passing by, and he smiles, he pauses for a while
I stayed up late for you last night, I waited all through the night
It seems a long time ago, such a long time ago

This can since mean nothing to him now, he can take his time
The faces all passing by, and he smiles, he pauses for a while
I stayed up late for you last night, I waited all through the night
It seems a long time ago, such a long time ago
It seems a long time ago, such a long time ago

External links

• https://soundcloud.com/user-481929878/boards-of-canada-societas-x-tape
• https://mega.nz/#F!qOZmGAQD!Ye7dE-2rl01VMKsO2QMScQ?TfBBVaLB
• https://www.nts.live/shows/wxaxrxp/episodes/boards-of-canada-23rd-june-2019