"Radio Pyongyang: Commie Funk and Agit Prop from the Hermit Kingdom"

This is one of those "taped off the radio" Sublime Frequencies compilations. In this case, much of it is stuff recorded from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea shortwave radio station while on a trip to Beijing, while other bits of it come from other sources. It is all pretty mental stuff, unsurprisingly. Many of the songs seem to be about how great Kim Jong-Il is, often with lyrics like "KIM JONG IL! KIM JONG IL! AAAAH AH AAAAAH AH! KIM JONG IL!". There are also some excerpts from Radio Pyongyang (or Radio Free Korea, or whatever it is called) in which some very stoned sounding people talk about how happy Koreans are to have Kim Jong Il as their leader. And there is bit of a DPRK numbers station broadcast for me to practice my decoding.

One of my Internet pals was talking about organising a group trip to the DPRK… Maybe I will go, and establish myself as the workplace weirdo once and for all. This record is so awesome that I would put up with anything to visit the country from which these sounds came.