Geogaddi Reversal PT4

This video is part 4 of my series of reversing the album "Geogaddi" by Boards of Canada, released in 2002. The record features numerous instances of backmasking and I aspire to figure out what they are. I already know a few and have shown them in this video, but trust me, there are FAR more.

Tracks in this segment:
I Saw Drones
Alpha and Omega

If you come up with something I missed in any of these videos, TELL ME VIA COMMENT/VIDEO RESPONSE. I'd love to know, and will annotate the missing information and credit you for it :D

Category:

Music

Tags:

• boards
• of
• canada
• IDM
• geogaddi
• warp
• records
• electronic
• ambient
• reverse
• backwards
• backmasking
• Saw
• Drones
• Alpha
• Omega

[DDRpwnerer]

You can watch the next video by viewing the response I posted to it :D

[bellebeatsyou]

This made me cry.. It's just so weird. When it's reversed, it's still good and you even hear things you don't hear when the songs played normally. I think it's really scary, but oh my god, so good.

I love BoC.

[Qwertisian]

"I'm a god-darned satanist and, if I wanted to, I'd be in this business too." it says.

[cesarojedac]

Alpha and Omega.

[Champiness]

I Saw Drones is so much better backwards.

[drygnfyre]

@frankp7400 Still can't hear it... Sounds more like gibberish to me. I believe when played forwards, the voice is really saying "yellow."

[drygnfyre]

@bellebeatsyou BoC does this intentional, as do some other artists. Backmasking can be done for stylistic effect (as BoC tends to do), or it can be used to hide expletives in radio edits, or even be used to give political statements or religious beliefs.

In the case of Geogaddi, the album is dark, scary and very unnerving. Having numerous songs with backmasked vocals, sounds, etc. is all part of the sound that BoC designed Geogaddi to have. Just think of how much is added to the overall sound.

[Synius44]

The intro (0:30) etc. to Alpha and Omega in reverse is one of the creepiest, darkest, fucking most amazing things I've ever heard. It's like a song in itself, the noise, then the synth, the bass, and finally the drums in reverse and the song keeps getting more chaotic until it turns itself inside out. Just like the song played forward.

[leafface1]

at 3:57 the melody is playing forward (3:27 in the normal song)

[frankp7400]

I hear "I wanna fuck" at 4:55 ...What you think?

[frankp7400]

What does the voice say at 1:45 ?

[frankp7400]

Holy shit I hear it! How did you figure it out?

[Davicitorra]

Thank you, :D