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

It’s been a long while since we looked at the tracklistings but one called (G21) Random Pop stood out so we played it. Listening to the recording, the station’s two note interval signal plays and in the background there’s a strange tune with a Tom Waits in German sounding vocal. The interval signal and the tune sounded very familiar to us, why did we know this one?

We had to dig deep but the name random pop was a clue of sorts as it was a title of a great track from Juche out of Cincinnati, that we had used on a shortwave mix of old. That was it. Here’s the Juche track Random Pop that uses the G21 track as an influence. The rest of their 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.