Number Stations is a new free album that brings together tracks by a variety of artists that are based on Number Stations samples.
Number Stations are shortwave radio stations that broadcast strange and cryptic content, often ordered or seemingly random series of numbers repeated over and over again. Other stations played weird music, and other still just repeated tones over an over. Little is known about them but they are thought to have been broadcasts from spies.
The most authoritative collection of Numbers Stations recordings is the Conet Project by Irdial Records, who make available the entire collection under their Free Music Philosophy. There are also other places online to find other samples that can be used in recordings as samples.
A challenge was issued to an international assortment of artists, with genres ranging from Ambient, to Dub Step to Interpretive. This compilation of tracks is the result. We hope you enjoy.
The album is released under a Creative Commons license.
How specialized and a creative theme! I was thinking about Numbers Stations the other day after reading about Boards of Canada using some of those samples.
Class this under the "conspiracy theory music" umbrella.
Thanks for the post. This is something I’m interested in. The bad thing is this site doesn’t work to well on my laptop. I will see what we can do when I get to work and will be back for more info.