The Conet Project - Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations

Yankee... Hotel... Foxtrot...



For any of you not familiar with Numbers Stations, they are unknown stations which can be heard on shortwave radios, repeating, well, numbers, and other such things. They are largely believed to be used by governments to inform spies of their orders in a completely uncrackable manner. Further, locating the origins of such number stations are, frankly, neigh impossible.

This is a phenomenon I was recently introduced to a few months ago and fell in love with this release. The Conet Project is exactly what its subtitle says it is, recording of hundreds and hundreds of these numbers stations in short 1-3 minute bits. Some can be quite creepy though, the Swedish Rhapsody in particular, with its eerie monotone young child reciting numbers in German in between stints of ice cream truck music.



When I first heard these it blew me away and instantly gained a spot in my sleeping playlist, but even for simply listening purposes, these are great.

This can be downloaded from archive.org, however I don't know about you guys, but I'd rather not download each track individually, thus it is in a nice rar file here.

http://www.mediafire.com/?ieatmgd8sz1wukf

Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill

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Grouper - Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill

I first heard some talk about this album and downloaded it because frankly I liked the cover art. I knew it was supposed to be rather mellow music but that was about all I knew. One night I was sick of listening to happy hardcore and had a bit of a headache so I decided to put this on. I was amazed at how beautiful this album was. Incredibly relaxing and calming, it was perfect for what I needed. I then decided to leave the album on repeat and go to sleep, which worked wonderfully as well.

This album is extremely mellow soft acoustic ambient music with a nice dose of melancholy and even some shoegaze. Really though it's just beautiful music, for once genres fail to describe this album I feel. Right from the first track, Disengaged, I was hooked.

Tracklisting:

1		Disengaged (4:16)
2		Heavy Water/I'd Rather Be Sleeping (2:53)
3		Stuck (5:59)
4		When We Fall (2:07)
5		Traveling Through A Sea (4:23)
6		Fishing Bird (Empty Gutted In The Evening Breeze) (3:51)
7		Invisible (3:55)
8		I'm Dragging A Dead Deer Up A Hill (2:21)
9		A Cover Over (2:48)
10		Wind And Snow (4:30)
11		Tidal Wave (5:35)
12		We've All Gone To Sleep (3:03)

Highest recommendation.

http://www.mediafire.com/?dtnl4jk0glr

Enjoy.