Boards of Canada - Random 35 Tracks Tape (Noise Reduction Removal)

[@carriersignal]

Track A09 28:48 sounds like the national anthem to a country that never existed.

[@epochthedog]

have you ever heard of the man from Taured?

[@Garbageman28]

Ah yes, Canada

[@ajax-on-yt]

It's insane how great it sounds now. It's my favourite "album" because of how eclectic and primitive it is. I feel like switchng from 64kbps to 320kbps. Thank you so much , I cannot express how happy I am.

[@ProfessorK78]

B07 is so incongruous with the rest of BoC work because it's peppy and upbeat. I really love the track, but I'm so used to the generally melancholy natures of BoC.

[@brandonthesteele]

I don't have the numbers memorized, so I thought you were talking about the bright and soaring B09. I agree B07 is also light, feels like the soundtrack to a wildlife show aimed at kids. Both are nice upbeat spots bracketing the dark hell-cave that is B08, they're well placed.

[@EvilTim1911]

I love hearing this obscure BoC stuff, really hoping we get a new official release from them. My most anticipated album probably, and it's not even been announced.

[@SweatoKaiba]

They just released a song on a random person (Some European engineer) Instagram stories. They might be getting ready to release something

[@EvilTim1911]

@@SweatoKaiba I'm not able to find any info on the instagram release, can you give me some info?

[@mGardeneriguess]

@@SweatoKaiba that "european engineer" is actually PIC (a close friend and photographer of BoC), so it's actually not a random person.

[@EvilTim1911]

@@mGardeneriguess Peter Ian Campbell, right? Can someone please direct me to the actual story in question

[@biterkaz]

A05 and A13 sounds deep deep in my brain since many years ago

[@michaelvultoo4486]

B12 still makes me fall into this endless pit of sorrow. I'll never be able to shield myself against this sound and melody. Masterpiece.

[@horriblechronicdiseases]

*This is a certified B12 moment*

[@traceyb9443]

Old BOC stuff that has been remastered/cleaned up that I haven't heard before is fantastic whilst waiting patiently for a new album! Thanks for this! 😁❤

[@highpowwered]

In your dreams, and mine too, buts been 10 years and their last album was far from my mark of being great, of course that’s just my opinion.

[@eliwatson1628]

A06 sounds like a demo of Seven Forty Seven, gorgeous

[@JamesT_Rustle]

Track from '92

[@iancaley2347]

1st track on the 2nd side, B01......never heard anything more spellbinding. This whole recording is like nothing else!

[@oliveoil22]

TIMESTAMPS (w/ occasional notes on what I noticed after listening to the restoration): A01 - 0:00:00 A02 (She is P) - 0:01:23 A03 - 0:03:36 A04 - 0:07:21 A05 (Finity) - 0:08:12 A06 - 0:13:14 - a very faint voice sample on loop can now be heard throughout the percussion section of the track, along with the main sporadic samples of synths and voices ("Yeah!" "Yes, what comes with uh, chicken fingers?" etc.) being much clearer in the highs. A07 - 0:18:09 A08 - 0:22:12 A09 - 0:28:46 A10 - 0:30:37 - tapping can now be heard at the very end of the track, perhaps a wind-up metronome. A11 (Blueberry) - 0:33:37 A12 - 0:34:03 A13 - 0:37:03 A14 - 0:39:15 A15 (I Will Get It Tattooed)- 0:41:02 B01 - 0:42:08 B02 - 0:43:37 B03 - 0:47:28 B04 - 0:48:33 B05 - 0:52:59 B06 - 0:54:52 B07 - 0:55:15 - the drum track can be heard fading back in momentarily in the keys-only outro. B08 - 0:58:58 B09 - 0:59:55 B10 - 1:03:08 B11 - 1:04:07 B12 - 1:07:38 B13 - 1:11:12 B14 - 1:12:15 B15 - 1:15:38 B16 - 1:17:43 B17 - 1:20:04 B18 - 1:20:23 B19 - 1:22:25 B20 - 1:23:49

[@Vingul]

I'm almost sure I recognise the A6 voice sample from somewhere, can't place it though.

[@grinderfoot3371]

Did you find any of B.O.C's trademark subliminal messages in here? If so, can you work on and post a desubliminalized version? Thanks, Grinderfoot

[@oliveoil22]

@@grinderfoot3371 wdym like reversed stuff? can tell you r35tt or any boc albums for that matter have anything of the sort lol

[@grinderfoot3371]

@@oliveoil22 no no no, obscured frequencies barely perceived that contain messages. My maain concern was ones around 10 - 12 Hertz. Thanks for asking.

[@onlytruejames]

@@grinderfoot3371 They probably wouldn't be preserved on a tape rip. Besides, this isn't a release, just a bunch of songs which aren't really compiled with much rhyme or reason. So that's a lot of work to put the messages in, and for no reason, as nobody who isn't a friend of boc was supposed to hear this

[@BleusAudioArchive]

Another thing to note is that at 47:15 on Audiotrack B02, you can hear a faint telephone ring in the background.

[@danabrahams7892]

I have just found this, loved BoC for years, but this is new to my ears so thank you. It has that pang you only get with BoC - you wish you had these tunes in your possession, but you probably never will, so it's bitter sweet as you listen to them in captured moments of knowing exultation. The hidden knowledge that on their game, nobody in the world is or has ever been better at this type of thing than BoC, but that the whole world will never know... They are the only band I have ever been approached about when wearing an old T-shirt of theirs I had. Happened several times, one guy I have struck up a friendship with... only BoC I suppose.

[@Ferrichrome]

A professor of mine, who was probably in his 60s, listens to BOC and has his CDs. Its really awesome that you can bridge the gap between generations with this music

[@danabrahams7892]

@@Ferrichrome Yep great to hear of a similar experience to mine, nice one

[@MegaCirse]

I've clicked through so many videos, through so many incredible, weird ambient landscapes... I feel like I'm going on a train trip, seeing a succession of crazy, never-before-seen scenes from history, important, weird musics through the window as I pass... there's so much to explore. So many places to alight and dwell in the ambiences that are on offer. This stop, in particular, is brilliant 🤠

[@juanchotpee2]

You've posted this particular comment about another particular stop on your journey on at least one other particular video.

[@MegaCirse]

😏🤠@@juanchotpee2

[@Jacob-2796]

BOC is not like the other girls Peerless in this musical space

[@Edu888777]

A14 could be in a Depeche Mode álbum like Black Celebration or Music for the Masses

[@sonofhibbs4425]

Thanks. Went straight to it.

[@BandarSayyed]

Was exactly my thought! But didn't think of exact DM album but rather than earlier stuff (since Alan Wilder).

[@petersommer7385]

Wow thank you for the effort - it’s a bit like a new record from the guys so really happy about it

[@jojothefine]

B04 sounds incredible on this release, the original now sounds underwater. Thanks you so much for your remaster!

[@dooki51]

This cleanup made it much more clear that A03 uses the same drum loop as June 9th and A08. In A03 it starts about 45 seconds in.

[@zigois]

Bravissimo! Very well done, we need new BOC - 2014 was EIGHT FREAKIN YEARS AGO!!!

[@richempire]

Make that 9 years since TH came out in 2013 however we might have something new with that VHS tape which was found in a thrift store and which seem to contain genuine unreleased BOC Tracks which could also potentialy lead to a new album.

[@pauljs75]

But that requires an expedition to the site of SCP 3008 to find them and making it back as well.

[@skunkman777]

10 years now

[@excrono]

Speechless, totally speechless… It will take time for words to come.

[@patrickbateman7444]

It sounds so good! An engaging and pleasant listening experience

[@jnekyoutube]

these is some bangers mate ,nice job innit

[@xenalopezart]

Absolutely nothing prepares you for B08 - 0:58:58 That's a wonderful track. I also really like the track prior-- makes me think of supermarket shopping.

[@StereotypicBehaviour]

Sounds to me like a sample of a Javanese gamelan ensemble

[@xenalopezart]

@@StereotypicBehaviour Wow I've never heard of this before and I really love it. Thanks a lot!!! 🐸

[@pauljs75]

The perfect soundtrack to listen to when browsing r/LiminalSpace.

[@sweetmesaJS]

the perfect soundtrack to listen to when lickin galls and gock

[@aumuamuanakakara9908]

a06 sounds so crisp good job olive edit: and niski too sorry

[@MedvediPetrovichi]

can't wait to listen to this in my headphones! thank you

[@Ciopekwah]

WAY FUCKING BETTER HOLY SHIT the other (denoised) upload sounds like the lowest possbile quality washed out MP3... and i was convinced the original tape just sounded like that xd

[@el910l]

ekie

[@Bribics]

deepest healing lucid dreaming made me this way. this is insane. i've tried so many else. this one is workin' as hell. no question.

[@XpRnz]

Doing the Lords work 🙏 thanks, this is really an improvement!

[@matts7176]

Never realized the same vocal sample in A12 is used in Aquarius version 3

[@Ferrichrome]

omg this is amazing, thanks so much for posting

[@Freakyros]

Glorious perfection. Thank you so much.

[@tsumara9]

Amazing job, thank you for this!

[@andreaschrist4711]

Thank you for this AWESOME Upload...this IS soooo good stuff🤤🥹

[@stoomdoom6148]

Thanks so much, doin the lord's work here.

[@RolyPablo]

I OVERFLOW MAN

[@JackJ-07]

Much love to you for this

[@twngohaombre5602]

ZYPHER METHOD REMASYER

[@philipbard2333]

Gorgeous, man. Thank you.

[@jklesk213]

Thanks for the upload …love the old stuff:-)

[@Dacoool]

i eated the random 35 tape rite after i rippde it...... thats why its so mysterious and inaccessible. soryi.

[@dougyuck]

dacool

[@tomdarby4906]

Nice! Great work!

[@theniski]

fun facts about the cd skips: - as far as it goes, A07 has a hell lot of them, someone must have burned the noise reduced rip to a badly scratched CDr as this is just unbearable - this is exactly why it looks so ugly on the spectogram (i was the first person to notice the cd skipping and it was a complete accident). the track also has repeated chunks of audio. also none of that is present on the "unreleased materials" re-encode, which serves as proof what i said is correct (or at least makes sense and is realistic) - some tracks have a small amount of random clicks, audible but not severe (A01, A06, A08, A10, etc), they also must've been put on the already NRed rip - now here's the actually interesting part: while i did fix the A09 CD skips (which i didn't even realize were a thing until the NR was restored properly, cant count all the NR algorithms i and sdoww tried doing reverse NR with before oliveoil came up with this one) i noticed the CD skips are not only fainter and quieter, but they cut off at around 15 kilohertz. and, unlike the previous tracks, these CD skips are the only ones that actually DO appear on the "unreleased materials" encode of A09. that basically means that A09 is either sourced from CD or the entire tape was recorded from a single CDr (but first off, i think the only kind of people to do that is people who were too poor to afford an aux cord, second, practically impossible for A09 to be the only track with tape compressed CD skips that way, so i feel like this second theory is far worse and less likely). just some things not really ever analyzed throughtly on this tape

[@jowlorenz9555]

Just Skip it skippy !

[@JophisJoe]

Thank you so much for this

[@cwright42030]

Thank you.

[@dalboz]

Thank you!

[@frankgibson8960]

Thanks dude!

[@baconArchitect]

b14 is almost like an entirely different song that sounds like it's constantly rising, In the original rip, it sounds like a 1 4 5 melody but this sounds a lot more like the last note goes up a half step

[@thiskidisdope]

amazing!

[@dasoundnectar1549]

Here Come the gods 🙏

[@domanigelato6444]

A14 pure love

[@barnumeffekt]

very good

[@FrancescoDiCursi-u6r]

This noise reduction removal... everything seems more full now

[@craaazycat]

very cool and good. A08 ❤️

[@FranTS-e9l]

thanks !

[@vertsk8er419]

A08 all day

[@dysekin]

nice@!!

[@VictorBock]

Just about the last thing left on this planet that is worth caring about, apart from nature itself, is another BOC release. Right?

[@karona303]

B09 is the good ending.

[@ajax-on-yt]

how did you do it ? Did you manipulated the Noise reducted rip , or is it based on an roginal rip ? how can it sounds better if you worked on an already deteriorated version? It definetly sounds betters in the end, so great job.

[@oliveoil22]

Here's what i said in response to someone asking the same thing on the boc subreddit: "For the method itself I recreated the noise profile with some white noise that had a slight boost in the very low ends. I "learned" said noise to IZotope RX 9's robust but quite primitive noise reduction module to filter out the noise and music separately in different tracks. I boosted the noise back to it's original dB level (about 10dB) based on the fragmented 192kbps leak that doesn't have any processing done to it. The music was kept at its original level."

[@oliveoil22]

Here's a little gif i made to show the process in the software: i.gyazo.com/d40c5003acec535ef3996bf136bb53a4.mp4

[@ajax-on-yt]

@@oliveoil22 Very clever ! You used an original leak to understand what was missing , man, that is such a great idea. This is amazing (I finaly understood what you did :)

[@VictorBock]

Great job, well done!

[@JulesInfinite888]

HOORAYYY!!!

[@matatias]

A03 sounds a lot like a Royksopp's song, "Sombre detune". Or actually vice-versa.

[@gbaudits-b8r]

I miss you dad in your venom vampire and provost xx

[@Wh0Kn0wsWhere08]

track B8 58:58 sounds like music you’d hear in a horror game or movie ngl

[@adrienvisano5723]

A13

[@deadhorseak]

Can you undo the noise reduction of AFOT from the .flac rip?

[@oliveoil22]

that one's tougher since the reduced details are much more cleaned out and there's a completely different, more "advanced" noise reduction algorithm at play that's a bit harder to replicate with the modern software I have. I've been doing a little digging on what could've been used to noise reduce the audio (this would've been late 90s to early 2000s) but I haven't come near anything close yet.

[@Turambar3791]

NICE :D

[@tomasmulcahymusic]

Oh. Wow...

[@Dacoool]

what's up with the static at 51:07 ?

[@philippedelaplace2683]

inspiré par Syd Barret ?

[@dsx4688]

51:00

[@scottl.1568]

Boards of Canada? You mean like the board of directors?

[@Xanaduum]

Imagine applying noise reduction to Boards of Canada. 😅

[@brandonthesteele]

The media containing the tracks had legitimate defects and there were issues with how they were converted/ripped. Cleaning up the audio was warranted and a worthy task.

[@Xanaduum]

@brandonthesteele I was just being ironic. 👍

[@Vingul]

So you've removed the noise reduction? 🤔 Nah.. thanks man!

[@joethelionjoethelion]

Has this been released ??

[@жеже-о3н]

очень клёво!

[@Mindmulus]

A09 😭

[@baligabalaga364]

is there a way to find out A06's name?❤

[@vertsk8er419]

5D

[@theniski]

@@vertsk8er419 wrong

[@mGardeneriguess]

No. A06 is often considered to be the lost BoC track “5D”, or an early version of “Seven Forty Seven”.

[@freeman9429]

unwordable

[@austinindian]

Dig.

[@dsx4688]

1:11:00

[@vanadium4603]

32:35

[@MagicJobby]

Random 35 by the boards of contrived

[@zladatv]

*👍класс и привет от тренера по футболу!!!!!!!*

[@Hypelloo]

beautiful music except A04, that track can go fk itself

[@pollen113]

lmao

[@yea18899]

what even is that supposed to be

[@CrvrMb]

17:00 not that there’s any connection at all, but the chicken fingers thing makes me think of that one episode Trailer Park Boys where Ricky paid $8 for the good kind of chicken fingers and Julian ruined it. Okay now let’s go with the chips and smokes. 🫰 🫰

[@longconmusic5622]

In awe.

[@atalantafugiens0426]

30:37