Number Stations

 

I used to listen to these Cold War spy broadcasts in the late 60s and early 70s, on one of these, which was given to me by someone who captured it from a German unit in WWII and afterwards used it as a domestic radio. The British and DDR transmissions are jaunty, almost cheerful even, but at the same time have a sinister quality that all of the Number Stations output shares. My early enthusiasm for repetitive electronica made the appreciation of Kraftwerk a foregone conclusion.