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Wednesday, April 05, 2023

Lost in Transmission

I love making shortwave/radio transmission mixes, so it's hard to believe it's been almost 11 years since my last new shortwave creation. Yikes! I know these mixes are labor intensive and I am a terrible procrastinator but I am shocked that it's been that long.

Here are the previous mixes:

This mix is a combo of real shortwave broadcasts, tracks that have broadcasts already embedded, and tracks that have that scratchy, radio feel. I couldn't resist adding a bit of Conet Project recordings here and there. Most of the straight radio broadcasts come from Myke Dodge Weiskopf. I've been using his recordings for years. You can find his stuff here - https://www.myke.me/

Two of my favorite cuts in this mix are by Mount Shrine from the album Shortwave Ruins. https://cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/shortwave-ruins It's a perfect combo of ambience, drone, and radio chatter. Mount Shrine is Cesar Alexandre, who sadly passed away in 2021. His two tracks in this mix fit the vibe perfectly.

I hope you enjoy the washes of static and voices from the ether. Hopefully it won't be 11 years until the next shortwave mix.

Cheers!

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 shortwave noise
00:40 Mount Shrine - Earth Bridge (Shortwave Ruins 2020)
04:50 Rival Consoles - Noise Call and Response
06:35 Mike Benoit - November’s Static Is Chill & Drear, November’s Leaf Is Red & Sear
07:10 Federico Durand - el grillo de nacar(the cricket of nacre) (a traves del espejo 2016)
09:36 9_11_01(Unknown time and frequency)
10:20 Enrico Coniglio & Matteo Uggeri - Jessaias de reduire mes medicaments
12:53 David Sylvian - Camphor
16:03 Helios - All You Are (Remembrance)
17:00 The Focus Group - CineToneOne (Stop-Motion Happening 2017)
17:12 Goncalo F Cardoso - Radio Zanzibar Etude 1
17:50 Tetsu Inoue - Invitable Colour (World Receiver 1996)
21:12 Shipping Forecast on BBC Radio 4
22:45 Jogging House - Frail
25:55 Ant’lrd - Slow Dream (Deck Amber 2018)
27:15 Radio Belarus – German Service 3-Aug-2010
28:20 Cremation Lily - Immaculacy (In England Now, Underwater 2018)
29:40 Radio Bulgaria 2-13 5800 kHz, 11_12_05 (2054UTC)
30:20 Austin Rockman - Sun Ink (Our Own Unknown 2022)
34:30 Janek Schaefer - Lagoon (glitter in my tears 2017)
36:03 Teleferick - g.klarf (sixteen frames 2017)
36:45 Lee Noyes & Radio Cegeste - broken only by the need for breath (to orient themselves with coastlines 2012)
37:15 Mount Shrine - Across Rooftops (Shortwave Ruins 2020)
42:10 Maps & Diagrams - Mutability (Teygja Part B 2021)
45:42 KJES 5-03 7555 kHz, 8_1_05 (0154UTC)
47:00 Rival Consoles - Outline of a Distant Memory
50:27 The Focus Group - Sir John Pepper (Stop-Motion Happening 2017)
51:22 Swod - Tucholskystr, 34 (Gehen 2004)
51:47 Olli Aarni - Puro (Puu tuulessa 2015)
54:33 half light - Rest (Rest 2022)
59:44 end

Thursday, May 31, 2012

on the behavior of radio waves

Shortwave radio signals spread across the planet, the signal fades in & out, washes of static mix with music & voice, creating an eerie mashup of music & electronics.

This is the latest mix in a series, going back years, that utilizes shortwave broadcasts & music that already has a noisy, grainy tone. That combination of sounds creates a strange, other-worldly feel, transporting the listener around the globe and back again.

As with the other shortwave mixes, this one makes use of source material from Myke Dodge Weiskopf & his website of shortwave recordings found here... http://www.myke.me/wordpress/

Enjoy.

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T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 The Humble Bee - Titles
00:46 William Basinski - Particle Showers
02:40 BSKSA Saudia Arabia 11785 kHz, 8_14_10 (1610UTC)
04:10 Andrew Chalk - Violin by Night
07:00 Andrew Pekler - Nocturne 3
09:00 Je Suis Le Petit Chevalier - Main Jungle
10:50 The Caretaker - The Quilter Standard
11:55 Markus Mehr - Komo
13:50 Ran Slavin - Wayward Initial
14:24 Call to Prayer at Dawn, Sultanahmet Mosque, Istanbul, Turkey
playing under the Ran Slavin cut
16:48 Depatterning - Instow, SK. Bone Creek No. 108
18:50 Pawn - untitled(from Islet)
24:05 Maps and Diagrams - Looks Simple Enough
26:23 unknown time & frequency (2002)
27:10 The Humble Bee - The Collecting Plate
28:00 WEWN:Radio Catolica Mundial 5810kHz
28:40 Mokira - Harold Dubb
33:05 Radio Bulgaria 5800kHz
34:04 Stephan Mathieu - Gabriel
37:55 Gultskra Artikler - Vsegda Krasni Cvetok
39:30 Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Reverso
45:15 Kane Ikin - short wave fade
47:12 Quinn Walker - The Quiet Passage
50:40 Melton - Northern Fields
53:05 I've Lost - A Study in Departure
54:27 end

On the behavior of radio waves by Lowlight on Mixcloud

Thursday, June 05, 2008

a ghost in the phase

I was having a tough time coming up with an idea for a new mix. The shortwave mix, a drift on the signal, is one of my favorite mixes so I decided to do a sequel.

And thus, through ionospheric transit, comes...a ghost in the phase. The formula is pretty much the same as before, a nice mixture of real shortwave radio recordings and ambient music with shortwave elements. Most of the shortwave stuff comes from the Shortwavemusic blog. That's the same source I used for the last shortwave mix. It's run by Myke Weiskopf. Here are a couple of his other sites...Myke Weiskopf and Myke's Live Journal

Lots of cool sounds at all three sites.

After the last shortwave mix a listener said it reminded him of Tetsu Inoue's World Receiver. How could I have forgotten that disc?! This time I made sure to include it. It's such a fantastic recording. You can buy it from Infraction records . Another excellent release that made it into the mix is the new one from Steven Mathieu called Radioland. Check it out.

The Entia Non and krill.minima and Unproduct cuts are all available for free download.

Download(right click/save as):
a ghost in the phase

The times in this tracklist are just approximations. Sometimes there are several cuts playing at once, things fading in and out, etc.

T R A C K L I S T :

00:00 - Pulse Wave FX & JBO Tokyo Radio
00:16 - Entia Non - Cultural Plagiarism
01:28 - Fennesz - A Year in a Minute
04:33 - Myke Weiskopf - Shortwave Condensation
05:55 - Djivan Gasparyan - dle yaman
06:56 - Cairo Radio
07:45 - Punkt - Speechless
08:24 - Cairo Radio
09:13 - Rod Modell - Aloeswood
12:38 - Tetsu Inoue - Elevator Drops
19:05 - Stephen Mathieu - Auf der Gasse
22:45 - Fennesz Sakamoto - Aware
26:37 - Radio RASD
26:54 - My Fun - Signal Drift
29:06 - Felicia Atkinson with Sylvain Chauveau - Aberdeen
34:11 - Chris Bissonnette - Traveling Light
40:00 - WEWN
40:46 - Post-Soviet Melancholia Pt. V: "Мой Рок и Ролл" via Russian International Radio
42:40 - krill.minima - Projektor
45:34 - Myke Weiskopf - The Grotesque
46:23 - Unproduct - Radio Canvas 3
46:52 - numbers
47:40 - pulse transmission
50:30 - Rameses III - Origins IV May 25, 2007
53:20 - Stephen Mathieu - Radioland
02:30 - Pulse Wave FX