Echoes of the Cold War

[saithkar]

This article originally appeared in issue 2 of The Young Pioneer, an online magazine in 2013. Republished here as this issue has now been archived.In July of 1976, radio listeners from Europe to North America tuning in to their regular programmes suddenly found them almost totally overwhelmed by a strong new signal of unknown origin. These

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[tcpip]

Great article. Numbers stations have been a bit of some interest to me, but not to any great extent.

(in this case: Y for yankee, H for hotel and F for foxtrot)

Made a good Wilco album as well.

[saithkar]

Cheers, I've been impressed with how many other people are fascinated by numbers stations, I honestly thought it would be the most esoteric of interests.

Can't say I endorse Wilco though, I would rather just listen to the broadcasts.....

[tcpip]

I think people like this deep-spy sort of stuff. Well, I do anyway.

You might want to get in touch with ENIGMA, who follow this material quite closely.

http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/enigma2000/

As for Wilco, they're good for their genre. There's plenty of unreasonably popular crap in the same however (The Shins, Modest Mouse, etc). My music tastes are pretty damn broad. Heck, I'm currently listening to a Giorgio Moroder set.

[saithkar]

I did have a look at ENIGMA's work when doing (fairly extensive, more so than for some university essays) research for this, but that is probably a bit technical for me and my aims, for the real buffs who track and record numbers stations.

Musical diversity is the best, I tend to personally prefer my music darker and more dramatic, currently hearing a bit of this:

[tcpip]

Heh, lost in Kiev is an appropriate title for this post (OK. so Chernobyl's two hour's drive away). Good track - as you say dramatic, and brooding. Excellent atmospherics.

[saithkar]

Ironically though the band is French.....

I've really been enjoying this style of post-rock lately, atmospheric but not demanding, good stuff to read and write to.