Stereolab on shortwave

People complain about listening to music on shortwave radio, they say “The quality is no good” “It’s in mono” and “there’s fading and crackling and lots of weird noises that change the sound of the music”. That’s the reason why we love it!

Here’s nearly half an hour of Test Cards on Radio from last Sunday including the mix from One Deck Pete called “A Trade Test Transmission” at 5.49. It was recorded by Aleksandr Myadel in Belarus, cheers to him for putting it online.

Even more spiky tops

As promised here’s a couple more photographs from Arizona thanks to Debby H who passed them on. The above is a great flowering mesquite in a car park of all places. We’d love to see one in a car park around here. It mentions on the Wikipedia page that it can be invasive so perhaps not. More about the species here.

And this is a good one, a saguaro with some great little flowers on the top. We’d love one of these in the back garden! Lots of interesting stuff on that cactus here. Cheers again Debby, great stuff!