Sample in Chroma Key's "Even the Waves"

[Mebert78]

Hey, so I was just listening to Porcupine Tree's "Even Less" from 1999, and the sample that closes the song reminded me a lot of the one in Chroma Key's "Even the Waves." They don't sound exactly the same, but similar. The "Even the Waves" sample sounds a little more filled with static and the tone of the voice sounds different. But they sound very similar to me. Do you guys think it's the same sample and Kevin just tweaked it more? Kinda cool if they both used the same sample. I'm not even sure where it's from.

Porcupine Tree - "Even Less"




Chroma Key - "Even the Waves"

[shortwave]

I don't know if it's the same sample or not, but I found this from the old Chroma Key website

Song description
Chill, trippy, begining of time song with short wave samples

There are short wave frequencies you come across which broadcast only a series of numbers/letters/simple melodies. They're which are a source of mystery for those interested in such things. Broadcast in several languages and from different countries, most think they are a way for governments to communicate with their spies in foreign countries.

ETW begins and ends with a sample of one of the more famous of these stations. About a year after DAFR was released I was freaked out when I heard a sample of the same station coming from a Stereolab CD!

Here is the Wayback Machine link: web.archive.org/web/20030202203323/http://chromakey.com/

click info -> lyrics

[virtueorvice]

SW also must have been interested in en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station

I found many of such samples here: [a href="archive.org/details/ird059"]archive.org/details/ird059[/a]

The one Kevin uses is the first one "tcp d1 1 the swedish rhapsody irdial" and the one SW uses is similar to the third one "tcp d1 3 counting control irdial..."

[1002one]

Very interesting. Thanks for the research!

[Mebert78]

Ah, just noticed that the "Even the Waves" sample appears in Carbon 12's "Nonsense and Numerology," which is a song that Kevin appeared on. Carbon 12 is a project of Steve Tushar, who performed on Chroma Key's you Go Now.

[lukeduke]

They are called number stations. Here you can find many information:
www.simonmason.karoo.net/page30.html

I also used some numer stations samples in one song I wrote in 2005. If you want to listen to it here's the link:
soundcloud.com/madworkmusic/madwork-overflow-01-null