Black Friday

 

Here's a bit I did a decade ago, with a seasonal twist. 

Music From Numbers Stations

 

Back in the Cold War days, there was a profusion of mysterious radio stations working the spy trade.  They featured anonymous voices, reciting strings of numbers (thus, their name), the purpose of which remains a mystery to this day.  

Occasionally (because, I guess, they were radio stations), they'd also play music, usually something also anonymous, and repetitious.  (When I was a kid, learning the magic of radio, my dad's short wave had a station playing the opening bars of the Star Spangled Banner, over and over.  Now that I think of it, that might have been a numbers station.)  (Or else, the record was just stuck.) 

The phenomenal Internet Archive has a selection of these stations.  I went into that scary shortwave world and collected a brief pastiche of weird music (intentional or not.) 

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That Little Crank

 

 

Here's the first new audio in a while.

Get Smart cutup artifact

 

The computer burped, and this happened.  

...or it was only the 60's, still screwing with our minds.

Jimi Hendix birthday, Nov 27

 

Jimi Hendrix, with Johnny Winter on slide guitar.

Things I Used To Do

Lennon Night mix: "Pieces of Eight"

 

This audio collage was included in a John Lennon Birthday streamcast I did a few years ago, when internet radio was on the site.  It's entitled "Pieces of Eight".  As I recall, the title comes from the fact that it was made from 8 different hunks of radio collage, carved from various Outside World radio programs commemorating Mr Legthorn on his natal day. 

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