Has anyone encountered this before? Freaky shortwave radio broadcasts that use short musical loops, number sequences and phoenetic alphabetics but their meaning is indecipherable. No-one knows who's broadcasting them or who they're being broadcasted to. They do sound pretty cool, though:

http://irdial.hyperreal.org/the%20conet%20project/

Whenever I listen to them I always imagine a lone radio, broadcasting them from some dark, dusty, abandoned (possibly haunted?) shed or something. They make for some addictive listening, but I wouldn't recommend listening to them before going to bed (I did that last night and my thinking was all out of whack - random tonal and number patterns reverberating through my head). I recommend the Swedish Rhapsody and Lincolnshire Poacher broadcasts from the first disc for sheer freakiness.

More info:

http://irdial.hyperreal.org/www/con...ect_booklet.pdf

(Fwiw, this isn't some sort of X-Files, tin-foil hat conspiracy - you can actually listen in on these broadcasts if you're close enough and have the right equipment. Still, no-one's sure what they mean or what they're used for, so it's sure to get the conspiracy theorists going at some point. Personally, I just think they sound cool. )

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lol that was some freaky stuff

blah i seen freakier stuff than that. No way Italy have scored its 2-1, anyway...yeah.. i nodded my head to some of the stuff on there.

Yeah those are pretty weird. Some musical artists were actually influeneced by these "number" stations. Check out Boards of Canada - Gyroscope and Stereolab - Pause.

Last edited by cbxzcm on Jun-23-2004 at 04:52

Yeah, it's cool stuff. When I was into electronics building and amateur radio about 10 years ago, I could pick up these stations late in the evening and just listen to some woman reading the same numbers sequence over and over. Very creepy.

As far as "conspiracy," I don't know if that's the right word. The best guess is that these are legitimate spying ops for many different nations.

Track 6, Disc 1, "The Lincolnshire Poacher" is my all time favorite.

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Last edited by imokruok on Jun-23-2004 at 02:46

Wow, I would never have expected a thread on this to feature on TA!

In all honesty I though it was a UK only phenomenon. I’ve really wanted to tune into number stations for ages now, but I don’t have the right radio setup to tune into them. Plus, I’ve never noticed sight nor sound of them around my neck of the woods. Listening to online recordings hasn’t got the same haunting atmosphere as listening to it though the radio.

cool music on track 6

wait, whats with the numbers, omg, wtf!

this shit is wierd.

Whoa. More links? :P

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Originally posted by Marcy blah i seen freakier stuff than that. No way Italy have scored its 2-1, anyway...yeah.. i nodded my head to some of the stuff on there.

I think I'm going to change my avatar to me wearing my Totti jersey!

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*Whimpers... *

I live by myself... and I listened to it, alone... before I went to sleep!

Does anyone want to sleep over?

No seriously....

ok, the very first one, The Conet Project - tcp d1 1 the swedish rhapsody irdial

at 3.08, wtf is she saying? it sounds like she keeps saying "Logan" which, creepily enough, at 2.35 AM, happens to be my first name. anyone know?

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