John Duncan's Blind Date

i love the rec he made w. Bernhard Gunter, Home Unspeakable - total silent sucking vortexx

I've been curious about some of his viedos for a while, but more so now after reading this interview:
http://www.johnduncan.org/wlassoff.rc1.html

Looks like VHS copies of the Tokyo Ghost Broadcasts are readily available from RRR and on eBay. There's also one called Tribe, with soundtrack by Fushitsusha. Anybody seen any of these?

And any further recommendations of recordings would be welcomed. I've only heard bits and pieces from compilations, but he has a fairly large back catalogue, so any starting points, really. Are the John See Soundtracks or Phantom Broadcast stronger albums??

my favorite two were always Phantom Broadcast and Incoming. The former is classic layered shortwave recordings, the latter is one of those records that's different every time you listen to it, massive low end apocalypse drone. The collaboration with Bernhard Günter, Home, Unspeakable, that one too.

Phantom Broadcast seconded. one of the loveliest drone pieces of recent memory.

I ended up at Aquarius checking out some samples. The collaboration with the dudes from Pan Sonic ('Nine Suggestions') sounds great. But can I ask a dumb question or two? I don't think I really know anything about what Shortwave Radio is. Is it basically the frequencies used for public services communications and the like? Say, ambulances and things like that? And is much of it static? Do you need a special receiver?

Also... I think I need the John See Soundtracks. And maybe the video. I had envisaged overlapped panting, maybe with shortwave radio and distortion or something. Which is kind of what is. Except I forgot that the girls are Japanese, so there's kind of a, uh... squealing vibe. But then the next sample sounds like a back-in-time field recording of some Samurai squires having a jig with their evening sake, so he's got his bases covered.