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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 brings you the first of many label review shows. This episode will focus on Crammed Discs – a label that was formed in the early 1980s in Belgium. This label is not without its twists and turns which we will discuss on a future episode, and their early releases are very … Continued
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Welcome back to A Box of Toys, where new music is an obsession! Today we present our fourth installment of “From the Stacks,” where we dig through our piles of recently acquired, not catalogued, new records. Having done four of these shows now, the stacks has been exhausted, so our next shows will be from … Continued
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Today on A Box of Toys, we discuss one of the best things about doing this show, is coming across some magical artists. Today we look at an artist from the 1960s, Delia Ann Derbyshire, who helped created the ground work for electronic music. We’ll play for you some selections as well as interviews. photo: … Continued
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Today on A Box of Toys, for your listening pleasure, we will present both emerging artists as well as a deep dredge through tracks which we couldn’t fit into other shows. photo: Travis Yewell via Unsplash
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Today on A Box of Toys, we present the third volume from our ever growing stacks of vinyl discoveries. Originally intended as a “needle drop show,” these records were all pulled from vinyl selections that have come off of new releases or re-issues. photo: Vladimir Proskurovskiy via Unsplash
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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
