I’m unsure why, but once again I have ventured down the ‘number stations’ path. This piece uses a small sample from a broadcast that went out in the former West Germany. It has an eerie, unsettling feel, that oddly, I love.

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Something tonight led me down this path again. I can’t be sure what. If you didn’t have a short wave radio in the seventies (when I was a little lad) listening in to either the ‘number stations’ or the musical interludes of closed radio stations, this piece won’t make any sense. Personally, I could loop this for hours and drift off.

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Whilst teaching my little lad Math this lunchtime, I had a strange old memory come into my head. As a boy I used to search the frequencies on my shortwave radio at night under the blankets. I was hoping to hear those repeating patterns of tones and numbers. They used to hypnotise me and I used to drift off to sleep with them. This little thing is meant to reflect this moment of recall. I hope the sample I found of the MI6 woman is in the public domain?

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