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Funny what you find

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This week while searching for some tracks for a forthcoming shortwave radio transmission we found the bandcamp site of Twink The Toy Piano Band from Boston, Massachusetts. As it says on the page about the creator Mike Langlie “He mixes toys and electronics for a quirky and catchy sound ranging from imaginary cartoon soundtracks to spooky lullabies to playroom mosh pits.” Brilliant, just brilliant. We implore you to explore Twink The Toy Piano Band here.

We always used any excuse for putting this track up but Twink’s tune made us think of this brilliant track from the Young Marble Giant’s Testcard EP. It’s nothing like it but puts us in mind of…

And talking of recommendations, thanks to Justin Patrick Moore for letting us know of this collaboration of the late Lee Perry and the heaviness of New Age Doom. This is nuts! More to explore.

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We heard this on the excellent This a music show the other week from the Shadow Huntaz which we’ve never heard before, it has all the good elements of the best hip-hop and dub and reminds us of Renegade Soundwave. Mad stuff for the first lockdown Bank Holiday in our time.

https://soundcloud.com/thisisamusicshow/this-is-a-music-show-062

And the back doors were flung open this evening as some old singles were rediscovered from the vaults including this excellent one from The Young Marble Giants. TV test cards, BBC trade test transmissions and images of old fashioned oscilloscopes came to mind. One fine tune!

Wobble meets Pablo in the waiting room of dub

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This gem from the great Jah Wobble (off his new LP Dream World) was heard on the other week’s On The Wire. Influenced by a visit to Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, the tune starts off with a dirty bassline sounding not unlike The Knack’s “My Sharona” pitched down to minus 8 then into a tune capturing all our favourite bits off the Young Marble Giants Test Card EP. Wobble’s tune defies classification and is one to listen to in a doctors surgery while thumbing through out-of-date issues of Reader’s Digest and Horse and Hound. Lovely stuff!