Something murky, spooky, irascible, and filled with all that cursed analogue potential.

I wish we still had technology like this, technology that was spatial yet invisible, the very opposite of user-friendly. All images conjured because the gaps were mere sound. Black bubbles turning on the surface of fresh coffee. I can still reel off the numbers of certain stations - long after my mum has forgotten the names of her children she will still understand what 94.5 means - but I can also recall long bored nights turning the dial through the darkness and enjoying the backwash tidal sounds of the gaps between. Where's Radio 1 gotten to today? And there was all this little stuff in between the big stuff, the actual stations, that as a kid I found even more interesting. Analogue radio: you dialed in, you tuned and tweaked and pretty much dowsed for what you were after. Radio has always seemed the most shadowed and unlikely of technologies. Availability: Out 12th July on PlayStation, PC, Switch and smartphones via Netflix.The needle scrolls, static twists into high notes and descends into a low fuzzy grumble before suddenly - implausibly - erupting into song.

It's just numbers and lines, and yet here was a panorama, lightyears wide, filled with deep mystery, somehow grown-up and somehow incomprehensible. George Lucas' next film would be the one to take us out to a galaxy far, far away, but, even back in the day, on a crackly fourteen-inch TV screen, that radio shot in American Graffiti looked absolutely gigantic. American Graffiti is about a group of young people wandering around on a special night. If I remember this correctly, the movie American Graffiti starts with a close-up of a car radio frequency display. Wander and chat through a night of spooky possibilities.

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