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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1308 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on November 16, 2007 and belongs in the music category. The previous post was , and the next post is .

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.​metafil​ter.​com/​7​6​2​8​6​/​W​h​a​t​-​w​a​s​-​W​o​r​l​d​-​S​e​r​v​i​c​e​-​b​e​e​p​i​ng-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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