A Box of Toys

A Box of Toys – September 9, 2025

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A Box of Toys is a radio program dedicated to the mystery of obscure music. The sheer volume of new and original artists is utterly overwhelming and A Box of Toys endeavors to pluck these voices out of their dusty basements and onto the airwaves for your listening pleasure. It is the culmination of a quarter-century curation effort that brings attention to lost, forgotten, eclectic and unknown music the world needs to hear. Come dig around and revel in what we’ve found.

Playlist

Artist Song Album Label
Sly & The Family Stone Trip to Your Heart A Whole New Thing Sony Music Entertainment
Nicole Willis No One's Gonna Love You Keep Reachin' Up Differ-ant
The Clean Beatnik Compilation Merge Records
Gary Bartz Ntu Troop Celestial Blues Harlem Bush Music - Uhuru Milestone
Luke Temple of Here We Go Magic Family Vacation Snowbeast Mill Pond Records
Dj Loops Kundalini #TrapLife Instrumentals (Vol. 1) rmd
Baby Huey Hard Times The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend Rhino (Pure)
Spirit The Other Song The Mercury Years Mercury Records
Archie Shepp Stick 'Em Up For Losers GRP
David Byrne My Big Hands ( Fall Through The Cracks ) The Complete Score From "The Catherine Wheel" Warner Records Label
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Fire Total Hits Vol. 1 Now! Music
Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger & The Trinity Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In) Streetnoise Polydor Records
Yom SACRED LAKE SACRED LAKE Komos
Chocolate Milk Action Speaks Louder Than Words Ice Cold Funk: The Greatest Grooves Of Chocolate Milk SME
Ruby And The Romantics Our Day Will Come - Single Version Our Day Will Come: The Very Best Of Ruby And The Romantics UMOD (Universal Music On Demand)
Ramon Morris First Come, First Served Sweet Sister Funk LRC Ltd. / Groove Merchant Records
The 1978ers, yU, SlimKat78 Give It Up People of Today Mello Music Group
Billy Cobham Almustafa the Beloved The Atlantic Years 1973-1978 Rhino Atlantic
Nouvelle Vague Guns Of Brixton Best Of Kwaidan
Miriam Makeba Pata Pata - Stereo Version Pata Pata Strut
Ringo Starr It Don't Come Easy Very Best Of Capitol Records
Wolfgang Dauner Take off Your Clothes and Feel the Setting Sun The Oimels The Orchard House
Andy Bey Celestial Blues Jazz Singers Gold Rhino Atlantic
George Baker Selection Little Green Bag - Single Edit Best Of 60's EMI Music Netherlands B.V.
Istanbul Chase (from Midnight Express) New Electric Moods Track Music
Ros Sereysothea Chnang Jas Bai Chgn-ainj (Old Pot, Tasty Rice) Cambodian Rocks The Orchard House
Shlohmo The End The End - Single Friends Of Friends