Track Listing

1. Introduction
2. Raymond Cass
3. Commentary
4. Sonja Liepina
5. Where's Mable
6. Cold Soldart
7. Gorgeskov
8. Dawson
9. Germans Visit Frederic
10. You're Very Good
11. Commentary
12. She Doesn't Bother
13. Aircraft Intercept
14. Elvis
15. Put It On Ice And I'll Mend Your Feet
16. Jesus
17. Radio Luxembourg
18. Raudive
19. Not Enough There To Copy
20. Oliver
21. Don't Do It
22. Commentary
23. Out Of This World
24. All Your Sorrows
25. Only Sonja Will Make It
26. Uppsala Sun Countess
27. I'm Joined To Many Countries
28. I've Made It
29. Copyist
30. Commentary
31. Prometheus Passademus
32. Of Unknown Origin
33. Raudive 2
34. Mrs Green
35. Waistcoat
36. Justified Theft
37. Philip Larkin
38. Tramping
39. Unknown Possible
40. So Strange I Remember You
41. Bruckerby
42. Burned With Force
43. Commentary
44. Raymond Cass
45. Dead Machines
46. Mysterious Voices
47. Cosmic Race
48. Wacky Shout
49. We Are Eagles
50. Less Weird
51. We Can See Edith By Radio
52. Referring To Me
53. He'll Be Ready To Be A Hero
54. Exalted Visitor
55. Duke Of Biarritz
56. Prophetic Voice
57. Carefully With Nerve Gas
58. Evil Struggle
59. Monopoly Asian
60. Intriguing Female
61. Here Ist Astauder
62. Gutteral Male
63. We Originate On A Planet
64. Pressure This
65. More Pleasant Female
66. Schallplatten
67. Mysterious Females
68. Una
69. Male Entity
70. Sistrenatus
71. Gutteral Entity
72. They'll Never Believe Us
73. There Are Probably Millions Now
74. Commentary
75. New Techniques And Interpretations: A Preliminary Repor t On A Scientific Investigation Of EVP by Jo
76. Commentary
77. Breakthrough 7" Side
78. Breakthrough 7" Side b
79. Conclusion

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #267845 in Music
• Released on: 2006-02-13
• Number of discs: 1

CD Description
Whether they're spooky vocal manifestations from the next world or merely random audio samples from the teeming airwaves, these examples of electronic voice phenomena, which supposedly emerge unbidden (or, on occasion, are summoned) from the radio, are an absorbing listen, and sometimes just a little chilling in their disembodied messages to their earthly correspondents.

Customer Reviews

Spooky? Uplifting? Random? Fake?
Electronic Voice Phenomena - whether it is truly the voices of the dead, telepathic transmissions from the living, aliens or charlatanerie - is certainly intriguing and beguiling. A certain, small amount of the material on this CD will be familiar to many British readers of publications of paranormal phenomena as the flexi-disc given away free with the supreme "The Unexplained" magazine in the early 80s, which was how my interest was piqued in this bizarre branch of acoustic science. Gathered here are short samples of recordings made by emiment and respectable people, working diligently and with little recognition (wasted time indeed if they had been faking all along!), that they claim to be made by entities hitherto not present in the room, or indeed incommunicado by other means: the dead, the distant, the alien. I'm not here to make a pronouncement on what I think these recordings represent: the case for their existence is set out clearly and rationally and the sounds themselves make for engrossing (and unsettling!) listening. So, listen, absorb... and then believe, or have fun running it down - but please do enjoy!

This is the biz
Every track's a killer. I particularly love Jimpster's version of Herbie Hancock's "Maiden Voyage" with the coolest, hipest vocal you'll ever hear.

This is the future of jazz and electronica
Real jazz, magical beats and supreme imagination make this one of the richest, deepest dance releases of the past while. This album breaks free from the blueprint of post club trip-hop, jazzy drum 'n' bass etc, and opts instead for true musical exploration, reaching into realms of previously unheard sound.

Although at times unrelentingly strange, 'Messages from the Hub' has firm roots in the jazz-funk fusion sounds that Weather Report or Herbie Hancock achieved in the seventies. But Jimpster has the up-to-date production skills to combine that deep musical understanding and desire to experiment with deep, deep beats. An absolute must for anyone who knows there's more to chilling out than trip-hop, ambient or jazzy drum 'n' bass.