Rubycon and shortwave radio.

I was listening to some Tangerine Dream today and remembered that Rubycon was the first electronic music I owned. We lived in NZ at he time and somehow my parents had befriended a cook who worked on a ship. Ken was from England and came over for dinner when he was in town. On one of these visits, early 1976 I think, he brought a cassette of Rubycon for me to listen to. We had had a discussion about music on his previous visit and he thought I might like it. All I had to play it on was a mono cassette recorder that was a Christmas present a few years before. I spent hours listing to the tape through the tiny speaker of the cassette player.
The thing about it was that there was music that someone had made out of the sounds that I loved listening to on the radio I had in my bedroom, a 1957 "portable" multi band tube/valve thing my mum had bought for my dad before they were married. This was when shortwave was full of wonderful coded transmissions and other sounds that I would also listen to for hours. There were the often interesting programs in all sorts of languages but it was those wails and bleeps and undulating siren sounds that fascinated me. The radio is at my parent's house, it came back to Canada with us the next year and I have the tape here with the rest of the cassette collection on a shelf just over my head. I'll have to dig it out and see what it sounds like.
Rubycon and shortwave radio, another couple of things I have to remember to thank my parents for.