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Artist: Sound Tribe Sector 9
Album: Ad Explorata
Label: 1320 Records
Playtime: 70:07 min
Genre: Electronic
URL: http://www.sts9.com/
Rip date: 2010-02-10
Street date: 2009-12-08
Size: 105.30 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 199 kbps / 4410kHz / Joint Stereo
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A family member of ours has a shortwave radio that we have all been messing
around with. We had been using it for sound effects and noises when one day
it was left it on in the studio. Keyboardist David PhippsÆ daughter Aya was
playing around with the dials when all of a sudden it stopped on this voice
on the super low frequencies of the spectrum. It was a woman's voice,
artificial we later found out, counting off numbers in a very clear and
concise way. We became obsessed with what we had heard and for weeks we sat
behind the dials trying to find more voices.
There was only one more to be found, the voice we sampled for the beginning
of the song ôCentralö. After a bit of research, we found that these were
numbers stations, thought to be coded messages various governments use to
send correspondence to spy's overseas. This of course isnÆt publicly
acknowledged by any government, even though in 2001 the United States tried
the Cuban Five for spying using information they supposedly received and
decoded by broadcast from a Cuban numbers station.
STS9 has always been fascinated by numbers; finding this transmission
captured our imagination so much that we had to see if there was something
more to what we had found. Immediately we enlisted the skills of a
crypto-hacker friend of ours to see if she could find any relevance to the
sequence we had recorded. When she ran the numbers as coordinates
corresponding to a map of military bases in California, she came up with an
exact location in Big Sur. We immediately went to check it out and sure
enough there was a trail about 10 miles back off of Nacimiento Rd. just south
of the park that led to this old abandoned bunker type structure. It was
crazy. We were all looking at each other in disbelief but there we were. We
crawled through a hole at the bottom of the fence and walked inside. There we
found a rusted metal box that had a few pictures, documents, patches,
passports, and a knife in it. The first picture was of a document from Allen
Dulles to J. Edgar Hoover on brainwashing. The second was of two men standing
over a map of the Middle East. That image became the cover of our first
single ôAtlasö off the upcoming release æAd ExplorataÆ. One of the patches we
found was the most intriguing of our finds. It had this physically impossible
symbol on it that looked futuristic next to all of the older documents. ItÆs
the symbol we lay over top of every image you will see for the album. In
doing some research, we later found an old book of 'black ops' military
patches at the Prelinger Library that had a brief description of this patch.
It was thought to be for a secret unit that first used satellites to gather
SIGINT (signal intelligence) from other countries during the Cold War. The
story is that this team actually gathered signals from another civilization
in our galaxy. Their motto was 'Ad Explorata, Forward into the Unexplored'.
WeÆre not ones for conspiracies but sometimes the truth is stranger than
anything we could imagine.
With this, we present to you STS9Æs newest studio release ôAd Explorataö due
out November of 2009, inspired by the idea that there is always more to be
discovered, manifested by the belief that you can always push towards the
unknown and unexplored, and created by the will and desire for constant
artistic evolution, expression and change.
STS9. AD EXPLORATA. 2009.
www.sts9.com
www.1320records.com
www.peaceblaster.com
www.regeneration-themovie.com
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. Phoneme ( 7:52)
02. Heavy ( 6:20)
03. Looking Back On Earth ( 6:33)
04. Oil & Water ( 6:51)
05. Crypto City ( 2:49)
06. EHM ( 7:28)
07. ATLAS ( 5:58)
08. Ad Explorata ( 3:41)
09. Re:Stereo ( 7:11)
10. Central ( 5:40)
11. Lion ( 5:39)
12. Echoes ( 4:05)
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