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For more than 30 years the shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the world’s intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “numbers stations.”
Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.
These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round.
The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child’s voice.
One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably since the official “end of the cold war,” but nothing could be further from the truth. Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall.
Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their masters via small, locally available, and unmodified Shortwave receivers. The encryption system used by Numbers Stations, known as a “one time pad” is unbreakable. Combine this with the fact that it is almost impossible to track down the message recipients once they are inserted into the enemy country, it becomes clear just how powerful the Numbers Station system is.
These stations use very rigid schedules, and transmit in many different languages, employing male and female voices repeating strings of numbers or phonetic letters day and night, all year round.
The voices are of varying pitches and intonation; there is even a German station (The Swedish Rhapsody) that transmits a female child’s voice.
One might think that these espionage activities should have wound down considerably since the official “end of the cold war,” but nothing could be further from the truth. Numbers Stations (and by inference, spies) are as busy as ever, with many new and bizarre stations appearing since the fall of the Berlin wall.
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"OK Computer the best album of 1997? Maybe if you're a mainstream sell-out." God, I hate teenagers sometimes.
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new washing machine in my apartment plays a little bit of lincolnshire poacher when she finishes washing, little bit creepy:_(
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Roogba wrote:
this is creepy.
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EnglishWhiteBoy wrote:
Awkwardly soothing
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jcotteri wrote:
this is really calming
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SilasCiaran wrote:
I came, I saw the top artists, I almost whacked my head on my laptop screen in pure carnal humour and laughter.
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Himmelhost wrote:
merzbow as top similar artist is quite stupid.
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RIPELIVEJAM wrote:
i'm surprised the people who "made" this sued Wilco. nobody would've known about it if it weren't for them.
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cogsturning wrote:
this gets pretty hypnotic after awhile.
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elchingolense wrote:
Oh god.
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KopKilla wrote:
"I want to see the people transmitting these messages. What do they look like? Where are they, in some secret government room in a basement? Or is it something more wacky like a housewife broadcasting from her dining room (like I get the impression in Counting Control)? I guess we'll never know." They probably look like average government workers. There's nothing very mysterious about how a numbers station operates. Knowing who they're talking to and what they're saying, though, is probably unknowable.
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ragsnotriches wrote:
Possibly the creepiest artist on last.fm. I enjoyed the Salon comment on listening to the Conet Project late at night: "Be warned, though: Side effects may include grainy and nihilistic nightmares starring a grayscale spy cabal armed with an arsenal of dead media."
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Sundays_Slave wrote:
OK Computer the best album of 1997? Maybe if you're a mainstream sell-out. The best album of 1997 was clearly The Conet Project.
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MarkyMark81 wrote:
I want to see the people transmitting these messages. What do they look like? Where are they, in some secret government room in a basement? Or is it something more wacky like a housewife broadcasting from her dining room (like I get the impression in Counting Control)? I guess we'll never know.
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namocat wrote:
I throw all four discs into my play list. It is always fun when they pop up when things are set to random and you have a good thousand-plus tracks in the list.
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ukkonen wrote:
biscuitsvstea: i experience the same. when i listen to the conet project, i usually put the entire collection on random, always fearing that 'the backwards music station' will be next.
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anarcho_atlatl wrote:
Oh wow, this is amazing! I love creepy music, and this definitely fits the bill (if you can really call it music). I'm drinking right now just to heighten the creepiness. It's working. Damn, I thought I just saw something outside my window, but it was just my reflection. I think I'm gonna close the blinds, otherwise I'm gonna freak out too much. I really should go to bed, but I'm afraid I'm going to have nightmares if I do.
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Prometheus09 wrote:
dude, this stuff is so awesome and creepy in a strange way. the first time i ever heard a numbers station, i was only 13 years old, staying up late in the summer, listening to the AM radio in my room for no reason. i came across a weird station that kept repeating numbers and weird pauses and tones... three zero nine three one..... three zero nine three one....
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biscuitsvstea wrote:
The backwards one, makes me wince and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. Must be the frequency, it just sounds not quite right and leaves a bad feeling in it's wake.
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jplcarl wrote:
I love it when a Conet Project track pops up randomly to freak someone out.
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