#Conet Project

[ourladyofomega]

[thngswntchng]

"Secteurs" release

This album offers an exploration of radio territories. I used various "websdr" to navigate radio waves and intercepted all sorts of communications, signals, and strange noises. I lingered a lot on uninhabited frequencies, in order to listen to what they had to say. From this journey, I kept a few fragments that I mixed, manipulating them as little as possible. The titles of the different tracks are only coordinates on this large electromagnetic map. "Secteurs" is an album that tells a personal adventure intertwined with other stories. The project is also a reference to Akin Fernandez's "Conet Project", which I invite any sound traveler to explore. Other stations will be mapped, later. 

[laikaflash]

My favorite types of YouTube comments on Conet Project recordings:

Arguments over which numbers stations were the scariest. (IMHO, it's the Stasi stations.)

Surprisingly in-depth explanations of the technology involved.

Obviously came from TV Tropes' Nightmare Fuel pages. (Hello.)

"That accent is off."

"Wilco/Half Life 2/(whatever else) sent me here."

[pineonthehillside]

I've been working on this project for a long time, but I only post a little bit about everything, because it's still difficult even with a translator.

The ghost of an abandoned radio station whose owner did terrible things committed suicide and his spirit now wanders the city sky, carrying away the souls of children through radio interference recordings.

[utilitycaster]

My most important personal Spotify wrapped metric is "how far down is the first novelty song and/or Weird Thing" and I'm happy to report it's 21st place this year

[mary-maud]

The Swedish Rhapsody was a Polish numbers station, operated by the Ministry of Public Security (later Office of State Protection and Foreign Intelligence Agency) that operated between the late 1950s and 1998. It was used to send coded messages to intelligence agents in the Western Bloc.

^ 1997 note

[punished-lincolnshire-poacher]

Nine albums. Thank 4 tag, @nico-di-angelfish

1.) View Monster by Lemon Demon. It's not easy for me to pick a Lemon Demon album, so this is the one that statistically has the highest number of my favorite tracks on it. Honorable mentions to Damn Skippy, Hip to the Javabean, and Dinosaurchestra.

2.) Treats by Sleigh Bells. Yeah, Poach likes Treats. Who knew? Zero skips in this album but Rill Rill is actually probably my least favorite. It's a good song, but this album does not need that breather in the middle of it.

3.) I Was A Teenage Washout by The Washouts. The only album by The Washouts. This album consists of music recorded by Jeff "Rip" Carson from between the ages of 11 and 16. Most songs were written by him as well. Discovered this artist/album while researching covers of Last Caress. Near as I can tell, Last Caress is the only non-original track on the album, but I could be wrong. Either way, this one grinds the line between "highly underrated" and "acquired taste."

4.) Paul's Boutique by The Beastie Boys. This album serves cunt hard. Again, no skips here except maybe the intro and outtro. Nothing wrong with them, but if you listen to the album often enough they can become tedious.

5.) Astro Lounge by Smash Mouth. Yes, the album with All Star on it. Turns out every track on this album fucks super hard, and there's quite a bit of variety to their sound. Another rock solid zero-skips album.

6.) The Conet Project. This isn't really an album. In fact it isn't really music at all. It's a five-disc collection of shortwave radio oddity recordings. Basically there are certain mandatory rules when broadcasting on shortwave frequencies. Recordings in this collection showcase stations that break these rules consistently over a long period of time, leading many to believe they are government sanctioned in some capacity, although they have never been publicly acknowledged or explained by any governing body. I listen to them on the reg.

7.) Cross by Justice. No skips. You've probably heard a song or two from this album even if you don't realize it. I seem to recall the "the party don't start til I walk in" line from THE PARTY being a popular meme some years ago. There's just no weak links in here at all. Perfectly cohesive album.

8.) f# a# ∞ by Godspeed You! Black Emporer. Another fairly famous album in music circles. There's not much I feel a need to say about it. It's beautiful, it's very dear to my heart.

9.) Puberty 2 by Mitski. This list is bookended by albums that were difficult for me to pick out from the rest of their artist's catalogue. Bury Me at Makeout Creek and Be The Cowboy are close contenders, but in the interest of not repeating an artist on this list I chose Puberty 2. Fireworks and My Body's Made Of Crushed Little Stars are almost guaranteed to bring me to tears anytime I hear them.

I don't feel compelled to tag anybody. My mutuals know who they are. Anyone should feel welcome to make a similar post.

[shadow-and-noise]

@aholefilledwithtwigs it got better

need to fall down this rabbit hole immediately.

[lovelyarps]

[zef-zef]

A Duck in a Tree 2024-11-30 - Telluric Events

zoviet*france weekly radio program listen/download

track list

00 Zach Zinn - Intro 01 Ersatz - Life 02 Karst - Weeping Bend 03 Janek Schaefer - Radio 111 FM 04 Bing Satellites & Daniel Land - Of North Wales 05 Vox Populi! - Aither Suite Part 2 06 Tom Vourtsis - Black Eyes 07 Arve Henriksen - White Gravel 08 Entarte - Fusion – 2.1 12 TeZ - Severity 10 Julie Berry / SE Trains- stb_rye 13 Darren Copeland - Ear of Plenty 09 Emmanuel Mieville - Batucave [extract] 10 Julie Berry / SE Trains- stb_rye 14 The Conet Project - Unidentified Chinese Station 11 Bode - DS#2 15 Ian J. Strange - Rockhopper Penguin Colony and Black-browed Albatross (Uedyptes crestatus) (Diomedea melanophris) 16 Harper / Russe / St. George - No Man’s Land 17 Richard Dawson - The Glass Trunk – XI 18 Lynlee - MongSang 19 Stars of the Lid - Lagging ++ Zach Zinn - Outro

[utilitycaster]

I fucking love weird radio transmissions; I wanted to be an astronomer for pretty much my entire childhood until I realized in college that the realities of the situation (academia and fucking up your sleep schedule) would not suit me. I also never cared terribly about the mechanics of ham radio so I never got into that (plus growing up in the digital age meant that it wouldn't really be the same), but I've definitely gone on some Conet project deep dives, so anyway this plot point is GREAT I am HOOKED

[scoticus]

tagged by @toxicfaggot to post by top ten artists of 2024 so far and the top track from each:

Bear Vs. Shark - Broken Dog Leg (223)

At The Drive-In - Heliotrope (33)

Sabled Sun - Through The Gates (14)

Sleep Research Facility - A-Deck (28)

Holy Fuck - Xed Eyes (26)

The Sound Of Animals Fighting - Interlude (54)

Beak> - Pill (37)

Fuck Buttons - Sentients (29)

The Conet Project - Konec Konec (11)

The Mars Volta - Ilyena (22)

very obsessed with Broken Dog Leg

traditionally I would tag people but I think @toxicfaggot is the only person I know on here who uses last.fm and idk how else one would get these details

[annoyangle]

You know what? It's late, my energy right now can't even go to the anonymous button, so oops. Oh well. I'll deal with consequences later. You probably already know I lurk anyway.

Anyway, speaking of David Lynch, I'm in the mood for some truly weird and freaky things to peruse this weekend myself. Do you have any personal recommendations?

WEIRD AND FREAKY, HUH... HOW ABOUT: 130 WEIRD BUT TRUE FACTS TO KNOW? POP SOME OF THESE ON YOUR FRIENDS AND BLOW THEIR MINDS! OR 25 SPOOKY SCIENCE FACTS! #10's A FAVORITE: 90% OF CELLS IN THE HUMAN BODY AREN'T HUMAN!

CHECK OUT AP NEWS'S "ODDITIES" SELECTION - ALL REAL! NO FAKES!

LEARN ABOUT NUMBERS STATIONS- AND THEN GO LISTEN TO REAL RECORDINGS OF THEM AT THE CONET PROJECT! SPIES AND MILITARY FORCES COMMUNICATE IN CODE OVER ANALOG RADIO - AND IT'S STILL A TRICK IN USE TODAY! YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD SWEDISH RHAPSODY BEFORE, IT'S GOTTEN PRETTY POPULAR AMONG THE ENLIGHTENED.

DIG AROUND ON JEFFIOT'S YOUTUBE CHANNEL - I RECOMMEND CALL OF THE VOID! THERE'S PLENTY OF FUN STUFF THERE TO POKE INTO.

GET INTO DEAD MALLS! JAMESTOWN MALL IS A FUN ONE TO START WITH. IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHERE CAPITALISM LEADS AND HUMAN CIVILIZATION ENDS THIS IS THE WAY! LET SOME BRAVE DOOFUS STUMBLE OVER EXPOSED WIRING, BROKEN GLASS, NAKED REBAR AND BLACK MOLD TO ENTERTAIN YOU! THERE'S TONS OF THESE VIDEOS AND THEY'RE ALL GREAT!

OR GO READ ABOUT THE HIGHWAY SAFETY FOUNDATION MAKING 'EDUCATIONAL' SNUFF FILMS FOR KIDS AND RIDE THAT ""HIGHWAY OF AGONY"" INTO THE AMAZING WORLD OF SCHOOL EDUCATIONAL FILMS OF THE 50s-80s! (MANY OF WHICH ARE AVAILABLE ONLINE FOR FREE TODAY, A CHEAP WEIRD HOBBY THAT WILL RETURN MASSIVE DIVIDENDS!) LEARN AND LOVE THE NAMES OF SID DAVIS! CENTRON! CORONET! EB FILMS! YOUNG AMERICA! MCGRAW HILL! IS CORN GRASS? IS GUARDIANA A CHEAP WONDER WOMAN RIP OFF? ANSWER YES!!

THAT OUGHTA KEEP YA BUSY, KID!

[bconker]

The Conet Project 330 - 8 Note Rising Scale

[mary-maud]

I was soooo obsessed with the conet project when I discovered it and i can feel myself getting into it again