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5. 91.9

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2. Terminally Chillin' / Movie trailer 01

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1. PLAYING CATCH WITH A UFO

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1 year ago

driving through indiana on my way to toledo from chicago, i chanced upon a broken radio station. i listened for over a 1/2 hour, in hopes someone would come on the air and explain what happened. i slowly went insane. "and find a production?" "and find redemption?" what was the man saying?

I kept this video down to 3 minutes, because the full 30+ minutes of actual footage is just too brutal to experience again. my brain is still melting.

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Trevor May 8 months ago

Final reduction? How did you listen to that for half an hour?!
GasFace 8 months ago

I will pay you for the unedited 30 minute version
Casey Pugh 8 months ago

Seconded
Erick C. 8 months ago

third.
Phil Hoyt 8 months ago

paypal please
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

hahaha. the 30 minutes are split up into a ton of giant avi files. i can certainly upload part of the unedited stuff.. but not all of it. :)
Bomo 8 months ago

Woah. It's like bad techno. A sample without a rap. You start to hear that "tch!" sound as if it's a percussion instrument. Gah! Make it stop!
Michael Eades 8 months ago

nice eyebrow moves
Zach Miller 8 months ago

Unintentional groove.
unhappymeal 8 months ago

What an awesome track! I wish I had 91.9 in Denver.
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

lol @ boingboing.net/2009/03/10/upsos-recording-of-a.html
David Picciuto 8 months ago

Fanfuckingtastic!
Thommy Browne 8 months ago

I watched this on loop. (right click on the play button)
Casey Pugh 8 months ago

I'm pretty sure 91.9 is the local trance/electronic station.
Blake Whitman 8 months ago

best video of the day.
Peter McArthur 8 months ago

I love this
Daniel Hayek 8 months ago

Stop the madness!!!
Soxiam 8 months ago

i looped it backwards. it says "how do i murder people?"
Karen Abad ♥s Dinosaurs. 8 months ago

hahahah
dalas verdugo 8 months ago

I like to listen to radio static in the car. Also, I used to loop things like this and listen to them for hours. Now I have a wife, so she'd get pissed if I did that.
Pierre 8 months ago

It's not broken. It's the hot new Philip Glass track.
Kai Niggemann 8 months ago

I love it. it reminds me of the story of the al Quaida promoting talking baby dolls that was on boing boing a while ago...
it's fun to use stuff like this in audioinstallations...
Andrew Torr 8 months ago

and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction
and finite reduction

I'm working on a remix...
Louie 8 months ago

ditto
Louie 8 months ago

smalll.org/yh/brokenradio.mp3
Blake Whitman 8 months ago

so good.
AdamPellinDeeve 8 months ago

Wow. Good work.
Ion 8 months ago

Love it Loveit... especailly the organ breakdown at the ens
James Deane 8 months ago

This is brilliant.
Caleb Stephens 8 months ago

Oh hell yeah
that is kick ass
Ben Donnelly 8 months ago

Radio automation software meets Westworld
Chris Kennedy 8 months ago

Final Redemption!!!!! You my friend deserve an award. and I thought a station playing the Macarena all day, was bad.
trev 8 months ago

This bizarre! I would love to see some kind of remix of some sort! Maybe this can be new project/challenge?
Jack Kobzeff 8 months ago

It's Gonna Rain, It's Gonna Rain, It's Gonna Rain....

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Gonna_Rain
AVGN Systems 8 months ago

Looool
Matt Hamer 8 months ago

My money's on this being WQKO (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WQKO) broadcast out of Howe, IN with a repeater in Goshen, IN - both of which are about equidistant from the Hwy 13/131 exit you see briefly in the video.
ana sofia 8 months ago

you're hot hahaha
pixiestemple 8 months ago

I dig seeing 2:36 and 3:00 on the clock.
Gikkingen 8 months ago

How did you listen to that for half an hour???? its so sick man.
gogetphilled 8 months ago

I find this toe tapping...
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

haha... thanks for all the feedback everyone!
i have no idea whats wrong with me, but i couldnt help myself listening for as long as I did. :)
Chris Kennedy 8 months ago

Dude I understand, my friends and I listened to a 15 minute hum after a German techno song, we were all waiting in anticipation, but nothing came.
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

yeah! i kept hoping someone was going to come on the radio and apologize but.. it.. never happened!
Erick C. 8 months ago

there used to be a radio station in Las Vegas that only played "welcome to the jungle" on repeat. gets surreal after a while.
Arkizzle 8 months ago

OK gang, here's a REMIX:

vimeo.com/3569755
V 8 months ago

Give me the mp3 and I'll host a remix contest on our blog :)
Alex Reid 8 months ago

Thank you.
Matthew Scott 8 months ago

im in a trance
aka Odko 8 months ago

ahhaahaha. fucking funny shit. thank yoiu amn u made me laugh
Keith Rivers 8 months ago

hahaha, 91.9 fm, nothing but a bunch of broken terrestrial robots.
hahau14 8 months ago

i can‘t understand ；
Alastair Montgomery 8 months ago

Add a techno beat and you've got a hit
Matt White 8 months ago

hahahahaha I could only handle it for about 30 seconds
mkk 8 months ago

This is a message from the universe: how to survive global economic depression... find a production... :)
phattums 8 months ago

yes!!
last.fm/music/Steve+Reich/_/Come+Out
joyrex 8 months ago

Lol :)
Avery Brooks 8 months ago

did a remix also .. it's 3rd in the playlist here:
myspace.com/averyjamesbrooks
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

wicked!
C J 8 months ago

There was a radio station here in the mid 80's that changed format from rock to country. The day they changed they looped the audio from some war movie for 24 hours straight. I assume it was to drive all the former listeners away from the frequency. It was a strange thing to do, and it's burnt into my brain to this very day. "FIRE IN THE HOLE! *KABOOM* *lots of chaotic noise* Why didn't you warn me sooner!" over and over and over again.

So strange.
Jordan Snyder 8 months ago

Awesome glasses, and awesome groove.
Joe Oswin 8 months ago

haha I couldnt manage 30 minutes of that!
Marshall Schulte 8 months ago

It sounds different from different angles. I feel like it could be "Find that redemption" though.
Ehren Wells 8 months ago

I made it 30 seconds before I went crazy.
Brad Hilton 8 months ago

This reminds me of the Conet Project. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conet_project

I wonder what kind of spy activity was going on around you as this was playing.
Wesley J Turner 8 months ago

I don't feel like I can add anything to this conversation that hasn't already been said, but you are a lucky(?) man to have happened on to this, a fortunate man that you had a camera with you and a creative man to realize the world (or part of it anyway) would need to hear it.
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

:)
Nathan Pierce 8 months ago

Hahahahahaha
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

heres another great one!
vimeo.com/3587256
Channing Sabir 8 months ago

how do you still know how to speak english. this is all i would have been able to say on the count of my mental break down from listening to this for so long
Tag My Pals 8 months ago

indiana - priceless
Richard Huntington 8 months ago

Wow
Paul Sample 8 months ago

Consider me Jodie Foster from Contact, I heard, "Planet Reduction". And guess which planet they're talking about?
johnElectric 8 months ago

wow - if only we could get steve reich's take?
Patrick 8 months ago

It kinda reminds me of this radio station out of Florence SC in the early 90's. They were going through some sort of format change and for a week or two they were known as Louie 96FM. They played every version of "Louie, Louie" that they could find and only "Louie, Louie" 24hrs a day.

After that they switched to sound effects; ping pong, grass hoppers, robots, pinball machines, babies crying, etc. Until they finally became a top 40's country station.
Jertronic 8 months ago

I love this production
dustin hostetler 8 months ago

heres another great remix! vimeo.com/3785805
Facebook User 8 months ago

This is why sites like vimeo are so great. If you were telling this story, it would definitely be a "you had to be there" moment; but, I definitely got the gist. As someone else said already, 30 seconds in, and I was going nuts; let alone 30 minutes!
maximalist 7 months ago

and final production
Daniel Hayek 6 months ago

I still find this hilarious!