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distant transmissions flicker and fade, there's a drift on the signal...a ghost in the phase...
A few years ago I became fascinated by the release of The Conet Project, recordings of the famous short-wave "numbers" stations, rumored to be operated by various covert intelligence operations. These stations transmit in different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round. The recordings a very spooky.
I've used these recordings in a few mixes & was always interested in exploring other shortwave recordings. Then I came across the SHORTWAVEMUSIC blog. Run by Myke Weiskopf, the blog is dedicated to music and/or musical noise intercepted via shortwave radio. These musical recordings feature a bit of noise, hum, drift & interference.
This mix is a collection of tune that have that noisy, radio fell & actual shortwave recordings.
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T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 - 00:30 interval signal
00:21 - 02:43 Alva Noto - haliod xerrox copy 4
02:03 - 02:54 E3 Lincolnshire Poacher
02:47 - 04:21 Myke Weiskopf - interlude 18
04:00 - 08:14 Radio Cairo
04:35 - 08:31 Chronomad - se
07:54 - 09:52 Talvin Singh - kalpataru
08:37 - 10:28 Jordan
09:26 - 12:08 Sheila Chandra - ABoneChroneDone #1
11:13 - 12:25 Radio Bulgaria
11:54 - 15:28 Bulgarin Women's Choir - Polegnala e Toudora
15:10 - 17:21 Radio Ukraine International
17:07 - 19:19 Myke Weiskopf - interlude #2 : faders
18:51 - 22:33 My Fun - Black Sky
22:21 - 25:18 tu m' - talking walking
24:30 - 26:40 China Radio International - Guqin Music
26:18 - 31:41 Bexar Bexar - unsettled & unable
30:30 - 32:49 Family Radio Int'l
31:30 - 37:32 William Basinski - The River(exerpt)
36:32 - 37:06 Yankee Bravo
38:04 - 38:44 Conet Project - Russian Lady
36:58 - 41:34 O Yuki Conjugate - In Dreams, Perhaps
38:52 - 40:03 Qu'ran chants via BSKSA (Riyadh)
40:56 - 41:39 Conet Project - Czech Lady
41:14 - 44:52 Electric Birds - vox canon
43:49 - 44:20 Conet Project - tcp d1 16 attencion 3 finds irdial
44:05 - 48:02 Andrew Pekler - sleepless
47:53 - 48:13 4931 0925 May 10 03
48:00 - 50:27 Ukraine
50:11 - 54:19 William Fields - indra
52:15 - 53:54 Ney Performer from Azerbaijan
53:14 - 58:45 M. Bentley - Time (fabricated)
58:10 - 1:02:30 Tim Hecker - Pluie 2
I grew up with a shortwave radio in our house, and we listened to the VOA, overseas stations, always a delight to find a new transmission. If there is a tracklist that we can see that would be wonderful.
T R A C K L I S T :
00:00 - 00:30 interval signal
00:21 - 02:43 Alva Noto - haliod xerrox copy 4
02:03 - 02:54 E3 Lincolnshire Poacher
02:47 - 04:21 Myke Weiskopf - interlude 18
04:00 - 08:14 Radio Cairo
04:35 - 08:31 Chronomad - se
07:54 - 09:52 Talvin Singh - kalpataru
08:37 - 10:28 Jordan
09:26 - 12:08 Sheila Chandra - ABoneChroneDone #1
11:13 - 12:25 Radio Bulgaria
11:54 - 15:28 Bulgarin Women's Choir - Polegnala e Toudora
15:10 - 17:21 Radio Ukraine International
17:07 - 19:19 Myke Weiskopf - interlude #2 : faders
18:51 - 22:33 My Fun - Black Sky
22:21 - 25:18 tu m' - talking walking
24:30 - 26:40 China Radio International - Guqin Music
26:18 - 31:41 Bexar Bexar - unsettled & unable
30:30 - 32:49 Family Radio Int'l
31:30 - 37:32 William Basinski - The River(exerpt)
36:32 - 37:06 Yankee Bravo
38:04 - 38:44 Conet Project - Russian Lady
36:58 - 41:34 O Yuki Conjugate - In Dreams, Perhaps
38:52 - 40:03 Qu'ran chants via BSKSA (Riyadh)
40:56 - 41:39 Conet Project - Czech Lady
41:14 - 44:52 Electric Birds - vox canon
43:49 - 44:20 Conet Project - tcp d1 16 attencion 3 finds irdial
44:05 - 48:02 Andrew Pekler - sleepless
47:53 - 48:13 4931 0925 May 10 03
48:00 - 50:27 Ukraine
50:11 - 54:19 William Fields - indra
52:15 - 53:54 Ney Performer from Azerbaijan
53:14 - 58:45 M. Bentley - Time (fabricated)
58:10 - 1:02:30 Tim Hecker - Pluie 2
fantastic mix, this must be one of my favorites!
I'm glad you liked it! This is an odd mix but one of my personal favorites. In case you haven't found these yet, here are a couple more shortwave mixes... https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/distant-transmissions/ https://www.mixcloud.com/FluidRadio/low-light-flicker-fade/ https://www.mixcloud.com/lowlight/on-the-behavior-of-radio-waves/ Thanks for listening!
This is a great mix. Mysterious.