A really great old Radio-4 program here about "The Lincolnshire Poacher" Numbers Station. Some really terrific (and pretty fucking spooky-sounding!) archive recordings, featuring a guest-appearance from Akin Fernandez, curator of "The Conet Project".
Jeez: I remember sending an Orchestra of Doom demo to Akin back in the mid-90s.
He faxed us back but didn't bite lol.
Also remember hearing these on the radio when I was a kid back in the 60s and being completely baffled - weird glockenspiel chimes or an odd musical fanfare followed by streams of numbers or repeated words in a foreign language thru a smear of static. Still makes me kinda shiver.
posted by I am not Kek-w @ 11:21 PM
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A new and unfamiliar numbers station is glistening off the ionosphere.
MI6: "Is that King Saul Boulevard? It sounds like King Saul Boulevard."
Mossad: "Is that Fort Meade? It sounds like Fort Meade."
NSA: "Is that the Third Department? It sounds like the Third Department."
PLA: "Is that the Limberthighs? It sounds like the Limberthighs."
Qi Gong Resistance Front: "Is that the Potato Drinkers? It sounds like the Potato Drinkers."
NKVD: "Is that the Czech Free Cellists? It sounds like the Czech Free Cellists."
Captain Beefheart Fanclub (Prague Chapter): "Is that the Brits? It sounds like the Brits."
SETI: "Oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck oh fuck"
Jings! I wanna join The Potato Drinkers and the Czech Free Cellists?
By cellists, you mean people who play the cello, don't you?
Yes, cello players. There was also a violent resistance movement called the Czech Freecellists composed of militant Freecell players.
"militant Freecell players" - LOL!
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