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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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One thing leads to another. In life, and on a Box Of Toys. This show starts out with a Castanets track, and follows that tortured path into Psych, Progressive, Dub, and Alt-Folk genres from the 60’s all the way to the 21st century. A journey through the curation process for A Box Of Toys. An … Continued
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Our 8th Emerging Artist show takes us to Los Angeles, the home of Leaving Records. Leaving specializes in avant-garde electronic music, and has a plethora of new talent, including Celia Hollander, Maral, S.Candle, Asa Tone, Jamire Williams, and many more.
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Our 7th Emerging Artists Show features A Box of Toys label favorites from Crammed and Hyperdub including Nova Materia, Nihiloxica, Ekiti Sound, Rozzma, Lorraine James and Doon Kanda with a wide variety of left field hip hop, electronic music, industrial dance music from Europe and Africa.
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One thing leads to another. In life, and on a Box Of Toys. This show starts out with a Castanets track, and follows that tortured path into Psych, Progressive, Dub, and Alt-Folk genres from the 60’s all the way to the 21st century. A journey through the curation process for A Box Of Toys.
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For our 6th show in the Electronic Music series, we tour the catalogue of Hyperdub to bring you their own special mixture of dubby electronics. This show covers the period from 2004 to date, and includes Kode 9, The Space Ape, and Burial, and other outstanding Hyperdub artists.
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Join us as our Electronic Music Series continues. This is our stopgap between the third show, and our final show (upcoming). A review of the prestigious Warp Records label from 2000-2004, that includes a number of luminaries in the IDM scene including Aphex Twin, Autechre, Matthew Hebert, Boards of Canada, Merzbow, Squarepusher and Luke Vibert.
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This is the 4th in our Electronic Music Series, our first needledrop show in the series- all new material/represses including Burial and several artists from the intentionally obscure “xpq?” imprint. Mostly soundscapes derived from the EDM scene, this show bridges the divide between dance and ambient electronics.
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A Box Of Toys explores the golden age of the cassette by sampling the DIY tape machine that existed between 1979 and 1985- a period of unprecedented creativity in “popular music” (to use the term loosely). This is a truly wild ride through the most obscure and interesting cassette catalogues from that period.
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Our second ever needle-drop show hits with a splash of widely varying material from avant grade, to EDM, to jazz, to post punk. Among the mishmash you will find Burial, Black Flower, No Nice Sala, and Gaslamp Killer. Come along for the journey through the spiral groove from the vinyl stacks of Chris Cory
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This week we concludes our tribute to the majesty of upstart Leaving Records, covering the most recent 5 years of the label’s autre. This includes two fine albums by Zeroh, as well as a smattering of lesser known West Coast artists in the experimental, electronic, and ambient music scene.
