The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations
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Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-07-13
Music Label: Irdial-Discs
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Swedish Rhapsody
  2. Counting
  3. Counting 'Control'
  4. Phonetic Alphabet - Nato
  5. 5 Dashes
  6. Lincolnshire Poacher
  7. Gong Station/Chimes
  8. DFD 21
  9. Ready Ready (15728)
  10. Bugle
  11. 5 Note Version 'Czech Lady'
  12. Three Note Oddity
  13. New Star Broadcasting
  14. Counting Station (Spanish)
  15. English Lady/00000 Ending
  16. Attencion/3 Finals
  17. 4 Notes Rising Scale
  18. Ciocîrlia
  19. Czech Lady
  20. 2 Letter 'Ys'
  21. 2 Letter 'El'
  22. 5 Dashes
  23. 2 Letter 'RK'
Music CD 2
  1. NNN
  2. 'Strich'
  3. DFD21/DRC37
  4. Drums & Trumpets
  5. NNN
  6. English Lady-00000 Ending
  7. NNN
  8. Russian Man ('D-Va' Northern Russian Voice)
  9. Phonetic Alphabet - Nato
  10. Spanish Lady
  11. 'Strich'
  12. 2 Letter 'Nu'
  13. 'Strich'
  14. Yt
  15. 5 Dashes
  16. German Man
  17. English Man
  18. English Man + German Lady
  19. German Lady
  20. Chinese Numbers
  21. Spanish Lady
  22. 2 Letter 'MD'
  23. English Man
  24. German Lady
  25. Phonetic Alphabet - Nato
  26. Phonetic Alphabet - Nato
  27. Nancy Adam Susan
  28. Counting 'Control'
  29. Nancy Adam Susan (Male Voice)
  30. Cherry Ripe
  31. Russian Lady
  32. Russian Man
  33. NNN
  34. Frank Young Peter
  35. Cherta
  36. Russian Counting Man
  37. Olx
  38. 6 Tones
  39. High Pitch Polytone
  40. High Pitch Ploytone
  41. High Pitch Ploytone
  42. High Pitch Polytone
  43. Oriental Language
Music CD 3
  1. Ready Ready
  2. Iran/Iraq Jamming Efficacy Testing
  3. English Lady
  4. English Lady
  5. English Man Version 1
  6. English Man Version 3
  7. English Man
  8. Magnetic Fields
  9. Magnetic Fields
  10. Oblique
  11. NNN
  12. 5 Dashes
  13. 2 Letter 'KG'
  14. 4 Figure Counting (10 Rough Tones)
  15. 2 Voices in One Transmission
  16. Tyrolean Music Station
  17. 3 Note I.S.
  18. 10 Rough Tones
  19. Achtung!
  20. 'A'
  21. Voice Sample
  22. Rapid Dots
  23. Strich
  24. Hier Ist DFC Seben und Dreizig
  25. 2 Letter 'PN'
  26. Sample Count
  27. 2 Letter 'Vo'
  28. 2 Letter 'HK'
  29. 2 Letter 'DM'
  30. 8 Note Rising Scale
  31. Spruchnummer 1
  32. Spruchnummer 4
  33. Random Pop
  34. Nomer 101
  35. Okno Okno Okno
  36. Nomer 198
  37. 723 Papaqui
  38. 298
  39. 815
  40. 167
  41. Moscow Coup Attempt
Music CD 4
  1. Russian Man Complete
  2. Yt
  3. 555 Konec
  4. Preska
  5. Cherta
  6. Count in Russian
  7. Count in Russian
  8. 1 - 10 Announcement
  9. 1 - 10 Announcement
  10. Counting in Polish
  11. Konec Konec
  12. Pozor
  13. Russian Lady Test Count and Message
  14. Russian Man
  15. Spanish Lady (2 Finals)
  16. Spanish Counting
  17. Spanish Counting
  18. Spanish Man
  19. Spanish Lady
  20. Spanish Lady
  21. Eastern Music Station
  22. Eastern Music Station
  23. Unidentified Chinese Station
  24. NNN
  25. NNN
  26. Whiskey Tango Veinte y Uno
  27. Crackle
  28. Backwards Music Station
  29. Faders
  30. Workshop
  31. Pip
  32. Buzzer
  33. M1 (197)
  34. M1B (463)
  35. M2 (712)
  36. M3
  37. M3
  38. M3
  39. M3
  40. M3
  41. M3
  42. M3A
  43. M3B

Free Music Notes for The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

Free Music Review: ACHTUNG! ATENCION!
Hit: 5 Stars

Learn to count in different languages!

When I heard about this boxset I pretty much knew I had to have it. The label, Irdial, has actually made the recordings available for free download on the internet, and you can also download a PDF of the brochure, but I wanted the package, which is actually very nice! The broadcasts were definitely not made with any artistic intentions, but what Irdial has done is indeed a work of art.

I had a shortwave radio as a kid and would go to the rooftop of my apt. building to listen to all kinds of stuff, like Radio Moscow ("Welcome to Moscow Mailbag") as well as ranting and raving about "imperialistas yanquis" from Cuba. There's all kinds of other weird stuff, like Universal Time stations, weird noises, and the mysterious "numbers stations", which are the subject matter of this collection. I had no idea what these were at the time.

Listening to these recordings is truly surreal. On one hand it is incredibly mundane, with either a totally bored-sounding human or an electronically generated voice reading off numbers and letters. On the other hand listening to these while thinking about the possible hidden messages is quite creepy. It's quite possible that at least some of these messages were instructions that lead to someone's death or "disappearance". What adds to the surrealistic effect is the goofy music, or in one case cartoon character voice, that bookends the reading of the numbers. Particularly creepy is the use of a little girl's voice in one of them! For full effect, listen to these while driving late at night, especially away from the city lights. Try to image yourself listening to instructions while undercover.

Some of it is just bleeps and blurbs, sometimes mixed with the whining and roaring electromagnetic jamming devices, which attempt to block the transmissions. This stuff can sound like the "musique concrete" of early experimental electronic recording artists.

The booklet is amazingly detailed and comprehensive. Irdial have gone through great lengths to put this together and are to be comnended for it.

Clearly this is not for everybody, but people fascinated by espionage, and people with a taste for the quirky and bizarre will dig it. I can't say that I'm likely to play it very often, although it would be fun to sneak in a piece or two into the playlist at a party :)! One side benefit for me is that I am learning how to count in Romanian!

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