Every Monday on Global Comment, we share Something Special you don’t want to miss. To fit with the six core pillars of the magazine, these will alternate between the themes of watch / listen / read / see / taste / place.
It will be something different every week, but it will always be about something worth seeing, hearing or watching, or a place worth visiting or a food worth tasting.
This week, an unusual but absolutely compelling listen for you. Somebody noticed that the freezer section of a British supermarket branch had a particularly charming hum, and after posting about it on Reddit, it’s kind of caught on. I heard about it via this MixMag piece, but my good friend Jess Ghost had actually recorded this precise phenomenon all the way back in 2018.
But since its more recent exposure, the internet has done what the internet does best and creativity has proliferated. My favourite is the surprisingly chill live performance by Sheffield’s Emergence Collective, who turned up at the Eccy Road Co-op and made music.
But if you prefer the ambient noise without the added musical soundtrack, jackbomb has created this 10-hour loop of the droning hum.
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