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A Box of Toys is a radio program dedicated to the tireless pursuit of obscure musical artifacts. The explosive growth of DIY digitized archiving and recording means that now, more than any previous time, we can find lost and buried treasures, filter them through discerning ears, and present them to you in a way that renders them coherent and relevant. Join us on this journey through the dusty corners and hidden pathways to bring you the most creative part of our musical human cultural experience.
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A Box of Toys returns to continue to dig through the stacks to bring you selections from a variety of LPs and new vinyl collected (and found) by our illustrious show hosts! A mix-tape like no other, so sit back and see what we have in store for you! photo: Getúlio Moraes via Unsplash
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On this episode of A Box of Toys, we feature an encore presentation of our #5 show on emerging artists. Enjoy! photo: BBC Creative via Unsplash
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On the our 42nd episode of A Box of Toys, we are proud to present our fifth volume of our emerging artists series. It’s been six months since we’ve done a show on up and coming musical acts – and we have a lot that we want to share with you! Throughout today’s episode, we … Continued
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For this episode, we pull from the stacks – vinyl stacks that is! On today’s show we have a stack of records to go through next to our turntable and we present the ones to you that we like best. Throughout today’s episode we play lots of new releases and some re-releases, mainly from Europe. … Continued
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Today on A Box of Toys, we present a collection of tracks that didn’t make it into other previous shows over the past year. Get ready for the weird, the wild, and definitely some stuff you’ve never heard of before. photo Michael Schmid on Unsplash
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This show collects songs and artists from several of our recent shows that didn’t fit on past episodes. This includes our recent two show feature on artists from across Africa, noise music, and post-rock. photo via Dennis Anderson on Unsplash
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We continue our dive into noise music, exploring the fringes of the genre and how it intersects and has influenced more mainstream acts. We look at a variety of styles and artists, from rock, ambient, to alternative, industrial, and beyond. Some of this music is hopelessly obscure and some of it on the older side, … Continued
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Part one of our exploration into the bizarre world of noise music. We begin by asking what music itself is and discussing how often “noise music” falls outside of the bounds of classical definitions of music itself; subverting traditional understandings and conceptions. Often harsh and difficult to listen to and other times soothing, we venture … Continued
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On episode #36 of A Box of Toys, we continue our exploration of musical artists across Africa. Last week, the box overflowed as we began our journey. We tried to take a trip from Ethiopia to the Atlantic, but got stuck in Nigeria. We’re picking back up by going from country to country by starting … Continued
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Today on A Box of Toys, hosts investigate entirely new territory. Overwhelmed by the diversity of music emanating from the tropical region of Africa, on today’s show we present selections from Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Senegal. Specially, our show will focus on music produced in the 60s, 70s, and 80s, where artists from these countries gained … Continued
