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What a strange but interesting website this is. "Radio Is A Foreign Country" offers snippets of radio and sounds recorded from all over the world. You can hear shortwave, local AM & FM, what African and Bollywood stations sound like and more. All are random and you never quite know what you're going to hear when you use its simple interface. It's put together by an anthropologist.
"Radio Is a Foreign Country began as a series of curated transmissions exploring international broadcasts, field recordings, regional music and obsolete media. Since its inception, the project has produced 193 transmissions, drawing from sources including AM, FM and shortwave radio, ethnographic archives, regional records and cassettes, sound travelogues, film and television audio, and other recordings that have largely disappeared from contemporary music culture.
The project’s archive moves far beyond familiar musical centers, incorporating Indonesian cassette culture, Thai-Khmer border music, Burmese rock and psychedelia, Afghan and Pakistani recordings, Central Asian synth music, Moroccan and Algerian cassettes, Mauritanian national radio, Haitian rara, Amazonian field recordings, Andean music, Japanese 78s, Okinawan records, Papua New Guinea soundscapes, Philippine recordings, Balkan and Romani music, Soviet-era Melodiya records and more...
Announcers, advertisements, station identifications, political speeches, religious recitations, telephone calls, weather reports, jingles, background noise and tape hiss can all become part of a transmission. Field recordings capture ceremonies, weddings, funerals, village and street life, while inexpensive cassettes and other obsolete formats preserve sounds that might otherwise be lost."
Each exhibit is identified on the site when possible and you can listen in here.
A DXer's dream without the fading.
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