We tapped in “Soulful Electronica” into the search engine on Bandcamp this evening and guess what came up as an example of the genre? The seminal Conet Project put together by Akin Fernandez of numbers stations and the like! More on the LP here.

It’s been a long while since we looked at the tracklisting but noticed one called (G21) Random Pop. Listening to the recording, there’s a strange tune in the background (with a Tom Waits type vocal) while the station’s two note interval signal plays. The interval signal and the tune sounded very familiar to us.

We had to dig deep but the name random pop was a clue as it was a title of a great track from Juche out of Cincinnati, that we had used on a shortwave mix of old. Here’s the Juche track Random Pop that uses the G21 track as an influence. The rest of the Juche self-titled LP is great if you love numbers stations and we would have loved to have it on the ltd edition cassette. You can’t beat a numbers station sample.