A Box of Toys – November 14, 2023

A Box of Toys

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 …

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From our mailbox to your airwaves, we have vinyl reissues and new releases from LiLiPUT, Heliocentrics/Gaslamp Killer, Radian, Joe Meek, Folklore Tapes, Royksopp, Lorraine James, Heinrich Mueller, Bonobo, Creation Rebel, NSRB-11, and Ellen Renton (with Lord of the Isles).    


Our third Emerging Artists show featured Clever Austin, Midwife, LEVL, Nazamba, Megan Thee Stallion and Collicutor.  These artists have worked their way into regular rotation at A Box of Toys since this episode aired on June 9th of 2020.  Comb the archives for related artists!  


New vinyl from Keleketla!, Meltable Snaps It, Alabaster DePlume, Ceramic Dog, Tinariwen, and Zeroh, and a half show of Skin Graft artists including PRE, Gay Beast, Doomsday Student, Xaddax, Sax Ruins, Psychic Graveyard, Tijuana Hercules, and Koenjihyakkei.     *Image from the Public Domain Review The Celestial Atlas of Andreas Cellarius (1660)


New vinyl from Keleketla!, Meltable Snaps It, Alabaster DePlume, Ceramic Dog, Tinariwen, and Zeroh, and a half show of Skin Graft artists including PRE, Gay Beast, Doomsday Student, Xaddax, Sax Ruins, Psychic Graveyard, Tijuana Hercules, and Koenjihyakkei.     *Image from the Public Domain Review The Celestial Atlas of Andreas Cellarius (1660)


Skin Graft Records features Noise Rock artists from the US and Japan, including Dazzling Killmen, Strangulated Beatoffs, Mama Tick, Mount Shasta, Shorty, Fruitcake, Dennison/Kimball Trio, Brice-Glace, Space Streakings, US Maple, Melt Banana, Big’n, Flying Luttenbachers, and MORE…


Chicago and Berlin based Thrill Jockey emerged in the mid-90’s.  Label lineup includes Wrekmeister Harmonies, Tortoise, Dan Friel, Dustin Wong, The Sea & Cake, OOIOO, Matmos, Califone, Oval, Radian, Saicobab, Lightning Bolt, Marisa Anderson, Mouse On Mars, Oozing Wound & Exploding Star Orchestra.  


The 7th in our series of digital downloads,this time (again) from Bandcamp, featuring Juryman, Plume, Mazurek&Locks, Diego Caicedo, Black Taffy, Mark Ribot, Werner Durand, Psyclones, U Totem, France Sauvage, Alfred Harth, Collocutor, Phume, Roll The Dice, NDIO, & Adrian Sherwood.


One of the most cited shows in the archives featuring the work of Delia Derbyshire, The White Noise, Deru, Don Cherry, Kinuki Takahashi, and Ryuchi Sakamoto.  This show features a group of composers who brought electronic music out of the lab and into film, TV, jazz and rock. *original airdate 2/16/2021 Image = The Sorceress … Continued


One of the most cited shows in the archives featuring the work of Delia Derbyshire, The White Noise, Deru, Don Cherry, Kinuki Takahashi, and Ryuchi Sakamoto.  This show features a group of composers who brought electronic music out of the lab and into film, TV, jazz and rock. *original airdate 2/16/2021 Image = The Sorceress … Continued