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Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission (new album June 10⧸11)

2013 · Post-Internet Ambient Electronic / ARG Marketing Era (2013) · music video

Boards of Canada - Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission (new album June 10⧸11) music video

2013Post-Internet Ambient Electronic / ARG Marketing Era (2013)IDM / Hauntology / Post-Internet ARG Culture (2010s Warp Records aesthetic)Dir. Neil Krug

What this video is

The Tomorrow's Harvest Transmission video is a promotional artifact of one of the most celebrated viral album campaigns in independent music history. Released in spring/summer 2013 on Warp Records, it was embedded within a cryptic ARG involving six-digit codes distributed across BBC Radio 1, NPR, Adult Swim, fan forums, a surprise 12-inch vinyl, and a password-gated website (Cosecha Transmisiones). The transmission…

Why it matters

A landmark example of IDM/ambient electronic music video production in the post-internet era. Krug's 16mm degraded-film aesthetic operationalised Boards of Canada's long-standing hauntological identity at the highest production level of their career, while the transmission-interruption visual…

The director

Neil Krug (born November 3, 1983) is an American visual artist, photographer, and director based in Los Angeles, California, originally from Lawrence, Kansas. A self-taught artist, he rose to prominence via a viral Flickr photo essay c. 2008 and the 2010…

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