Radio Free Music Hits Machine -

In the year 1994, tucked away in the humid basement of a shuttered textile mill in North Carolina, sat the "Radio Free Music Hits Machine."

Some say the Machine finally played a hit so perfect it folded space-time and took Elias’s basement with it. Others say if you tune your radio to 98.7 during a lightning storm and drive past the old mill, you can still hear the faint, crackling ghost of a melody that hasn't been written yet. RADIO FREE MUSIC HITS MACHINE

To the town of Oakhaven, it was just a pirate radio signal that overrode the local Top 40 station every Friday at midnight. To its creator, a disgraced electrical engineer named Elias Thorne, it was a masterpiece of analog defiance. The Invention In the year 1994, tucked away in the