Jazz from Basel

If you tune around on a shortwave radio, you might stumble across a voice reciting an endless stream of numbers. Just numbers, all day, everyday. These so-called "numbers stations," say nothing about where they are transmitting from or who they are trying to reach, but they can be heard in Spanish, Thai, German, Russian, Chinese, and any number of other languages from around the world.
These mysterious shortwave transmissions caught the attention of producer David Goren when he was just a kid. His piece, Atencion! Seis Siete Tres Siete Cero: The Mystery of the Shortwave Numbers Stations, aired in 2000 as part of the series Lost and Found Sound.  In tuning into these weird little broadcasts, Goren joins a curious community that has been listening to numbers stations for decades, some suspecting that the stations are run by intelligence agencies sending encrypted messages to individual agents in the field.

99% Invisible-97- Numbers Stations

Christian McBride

This is the rebroadcast of the Shortwave Shindig originally aired live from the 2015 Winter SWL Fest in Plymouth Meeting, PA. As the first broadcast was off the air for several minutes this version restores the missing segments and includes a few additional improvements for your listening pleasure.

SHORTWAVE SHINDIG 2015 REBROADCAST  (03 - 07 - 2015)

So, a year or two ago Ryan Stively made an instrumental piece called Missing Cities and around the same time I recorded a chunk of shortwave sound that I called Missing Cities. When makng some pieces for the recent Shortwave Shindig 2015 broadcast I decided the twain should meet.

Missing Cities

An annotated mid-afternoon ramble through the unlicensed side of the FM band as heard in Flatbush, Brookyn. This part of the bandscan features 12 stations broadcasting between 88.1 and 91.9 mhz. I've plugged in station names in where I know them. Help with unidentified stations is welcomed. For more on the NYC pirate stations check out our sister site: https://www.facebook.com/FlatbushPirateDecoder

Fourth of July 2015--Brooklyn Pirate Radio Bandscan--Part 1 (88.1-91.9 mhz)

THE TUNING INN: The Mayfly

The Gipsy

Everything Happens To me

Fly Me To The Moon

Ws Thedoc 031118 Thegreyhounddiaries Part2 RTX

Ws Thedoc 031118 Thegreyhounddiaries Part1 RTX  2

WBAD Nysca Sample

New York City's Pirate of the Air takes a close look at the role of pirate radio among New York City's immigrant communities. I produced this for the BBC in 2019. My other pirate radio project is THE BROOKLYN PIRATE RADIO SOUND MAP http://map.pirateradiomap.com which is an interactive sound archive of Brooklyn's West Indian pirate stations. You can express you support for this project by buying me a coffee! https://ko-fi.com/brooklynpirateradiosoundmap I would be grateful for any support to help me continue this sonic cultural investigation.

New York City's Pirates Of The Air Part 2 BBC WS

New York City's Pirates Of The Air Part 1 BBC World Service

A noisy as fuck  dungeon synth-y remix of @osno1's remix of her own song, Bloodstains by the legendary rock n' roll combo the hundred gecs.

Made in Logic Pro X - with a combination of slowing down the original remix with varispeed, messing around with plugins and adding some choir paadzzzz

100 Gecs + Laura Les -  ßïøø∂∫†åïñß (Sibyl Disobedeince Ascetic Hemophilliac Mixxx)

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Christian McBride

David Goren Tunes You In Productions

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