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offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 16:33 [#02368240]
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I had debated posting about this since it happened since,
without some tangible proof, I'm sure it's about as
interesting as someone explaining the dream they just had.
But I'm bored, sorry.

I was driving between cities a few weeks ago and as I neared
the signal limit of the station I had on, I began to get
another radio station crossing over onto it. I suppose there
must have been two stations using the same frequency and I
was in the sweet spot that was in range of both. Well, the
song I was listening to was Silly Love Songs by Wings and
I'm not sure what track it was that crossed over but it was
some dancey thing. The resultant mix was something that
would have done earthleakage proud. I wish I had had a way
to record it because the bpm of both songs lined up
perfectly and what I got was a fading/white-noisey Silly
Love Songs with a neat blend of rhythms. I've always liked
the drums in that song but hearing it this way blew me away.


Have any of you experienced anything like this?


 

offline Guybrush from the white room on 2010-02-23 16:40 [#02368242]
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The other day at the pub I work in they had the same song
(lady gaga's poker face) on in the front bar stereo and on
the back bar jukebox on a seperate system. The bar being
inbetween both I could hear both, with a 30 second
difference between them, and it made me feel ill


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2010-02-23 16:43 [#02368244]
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No, but occasionally the local Classical radio station plays
CDs that skip. Sometimes the CD will continue skipping for a
few minutes, jumping to different parts of the piece of
music or getting stuck on a stuttering, repetition of half a
second of music, like a sample in popular music or
electronic music. I've heard at least a continuous two
minutes of re-imagined Classical music that would put to
shame any cut-and-paste electronic musicians out now or
ever. And all by chance and lazy radio technicians.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 16:45 [#02368245]
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Haha! Good stories, both of you. Thanks for participating in
my thread. :]


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-02-23 16:54 [#02368246]
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I've had a similar thing before when I had a power cut and
all the radio stations were lost but I didn't realize for
ages I thought "I thought Fuck Me what is this!" and started
to record it. I felt it for for waayy too long before I
realized.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-02-23 16:55 [#02368247]
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Oh My Phobes! I need to read what I type before I post.


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2010-02-23 17:04 [#02368248]
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haha :D

nothing to do with radio, but back in the days, 2003 i
believe, i was in Bern Switzerland with a friend. We bought
some pot and walked around in the old town while very baked,
and there came live music from inside a bar or some place so
we went in… there it was, a really amazing free jazz
orchestra playing the most mad brilliant avant-garde music,
for free, in Bern, by chance! We were sitting there with big
grins admiring the experience… then they stopped tuning
their instruments… and started playing lame big band crap.


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2010-02-23 17:05 [#02368249]
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I just remembered another time when I was driving past a
factory of some kind that produced a very beat like sound
from working machinery, very loud. I was listening to the
local Classical radio station again and they were playing a
Scriabin piano piece I think. Both sounds meshed together
incredibly well. As I drove farther away the Doppler
effected sound of the factory matched the end of the piece
with its long sustained ending chord. Both music and factory
disappearing into nothing nearly at the same time.


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2010-02-23 17:08 [#02368250]
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Ha ha. That sums up so much music in general. Whether you
meant to or not.


 

offline Mr Brazil from Oh Joan, I love you so... on 2010-02-23 17:09 [#02368251]
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[...so much *about music...]


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-02-23 17:11 [#02368252]
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Haha! It's the same chapter! I was properly feeling it!
I'm sure I whispered 'fuck' a few times whilst pulling daft
faces.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 17:14 [#02368253]
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Was it sort of a white-noise effect, then? Or were there
still bits of the stations coming through?


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 17:15 [#02368254]
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Haha. I've had that same sensation. Listening to a group of
classical musicians tune their instruments can really sound
interesting sometimes.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 17:16 [#02368255]
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That's very cool, and well close to the radio station thing
I experienced.


 

offline JivverDicker from my house on 2010-02-23 17:19 [#02368256]
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It'd lost all the FM/AM/MW/SW information as well as the
frequency so it was intermittent blips with noise bursts
and Ring modulating things with deep pulses. Even though I
felt like a complete knob when I realized I did enjoy it for
those 20 minutes.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2010-02-23 17:22 [#02368257]
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r u saying i cant mix? its about the only thing i can do..


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2010-02-23 17:22 [#02368258]
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sorry i forgot the insult. fuck you!


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 17:25 [#02368261]
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Haha. That's cool, though! I'm sure I would have been into
it, anyway. I love when something unexpected happens with
electronics and we get to hear the result.


 

offline Zephyr Twin from ΔΔΔ on 2010-02-23 17:27 [#02368262]
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On the contrary I was referencing those pop song remixes
with the electronic beats that someone posted on here and
that you and I both enjoyed. I thought of you when I heard
this mix on the radio, is all. Glad I brought you out of the
shadows, though. :D


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2010-02-23 17:32 [#02368265]
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srsly… all the interplay of different timbres, especially
brass, isolated phrases bubbling about…. it honestly
sounded much more interesting than the big-band tunes. I
often feel the same in a cinema when the reel is at its end
and you get some test pattern or flashing green/white
rectangles, more enjoyable than many films...

Mr. Brazil, what do you mean by
"That sums up so much about music in general"
?


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2010-02-23 17:32 [#02368266]
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your avatar reminds me of this


 

offline Terence Hill from Germany on 2010-02-23 17:33 [#02368267]
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time to dig out these recordings.


 

offline hedphukkerr from mathbotton (United States) on 2010-02-24 04:02 [#02368327]
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at burning man i've almost gotten run over because i get
stuck between the sweet spot between two rave camps playing
house music. i sit there listening to the beats moving in
and out of sync every 4 or 5 bars or so, it entertains me to
no end.


 

offline mohamed from the turtle business on 2010-02-25 00:53 [#02368414]
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cool thread

the last interesting noises i heard worth mentioning are:

weird effect like 4:08 in Hangable Auto Bulb while rubbing a
rolling paper

and some kind of filter a là Icct Hedral when the coffee
maker gets empty after pouring the coffee



 

offline Cliff Glitchard from DEEP DOWN INSIDE on 2010-02-25 01:45 [#02368417]
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i had that vhs player pictured in that link.

a ferguson videostar.

my old man bought it around 1980 and gave it to me around
86, it worked up until 1995.

that's was some proper sturdy bit of kit, that. not like
your run of the mill poxy built dvd players of today, no
sir.


 

offline jnasato from 777gogogo (Japan) on 2010-02-25 10:02 [#02368428]
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Pretty cool shitz, mangz/womangz.


 


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