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Night Tones

Two nights ago, at about 2am, I was woken up by some very odd noises squeaking out of the radio:

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Alien communiqué? The ghost of Delia Derbyshire? Numbers station intrusion? Cock-up at Broadcasting House?

I dunno, but it sounds good.

Update: Mike D points out in the comments that an Ask Metafilter user was wondering about the squeaks too.

Posted at 12pm on 16/11/07 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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  1. Sounds like an early ’90s Boredoms song to me, like ‘Noise Ramones’. But it was probably someone hitting the wrong switch to some equipment test thingy, since it seems to cut back so abruptly at the end.

    Posted by MacDara at 12am on 17.11.07

  2. Related?

    http://ask.metafilter.com/76286/What-was-World-Service-beeping-at

    Posted by mikeD at 12am on 17.11.07

  3. Yep, looks like the same sounds, Mike (didn’t know you were a MetaFilterist!)

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 12pm on 18.11.07

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