Boards of Canada - Cosecha Signal One

What this video is

Released in April–May 2013 as a component of one of the most elaborate album announcement ARG campaigns in electronic music history, Cosecha Signal One served as both a visual teaser and a cryptographic breadcrumb for Boards of Canada's long-awaited fourth album Tomorrow's Harvest (Warp Records, June 2013). The campaign began on Record Store Day 2013 with mysterious hand-delivered vinyl records containing six-digit…

Why it matters

Cosecha Signal One is a landmark artifact of 2010s hauntology-adjacent electronic music visual culture, demonstrating how Warp Records-era IDM acts weaponized analog film degradation and environmental abstraction as genre signifiers. Its in-camera 16mm Bolex production methodology — rejecting…

The director

Neil Krug is a Los Angeles-based music video director and photographer known for analog and film-based visual work. He first worked with Warp Records officially in 2012 on a Gonjasufi release, and previously created an unofficial fan video for a Boards of…