TRACKLISTING. MONDAY 04/07/2011

Our whole programme team had a get-together over lunch on Friday where we discussed - among other things - the finer points of Stephen Fry reading the Harry Potter books - a job so enjoyable he himself likens it to "swimming in chocolate". Our intern Tom Alvarez was just seven when JK Rowling's first book in the series came out - imagine that!

More importantly we decided to try and make more artists aware of the importance of joining PRS For Music, so as to get paid when their tunes are played on the radio. There's no conceivable downside or upfront cost to applying for membership, and you can do it here.

Anyway, on with the show and - what with our week off air during 6 Music's Glasto weekend and yesterday's show being given over to highlights from the BBC Introducing Stage - we've built up a major backlog of great tunes that have been waiting for ages to be played on air.

So we've bundled up 29 of them into a bumper free two hour mixtape that you can download here in podcast form from 3am Monday July 3rd, and are previewing the whole thing this morning from 1am.
The North East of England - that seething hotbed of musical talent which gave us Vinyl Jacket and Sharks Took The Rest at Glastonbury - tonight supplies us with our indie show openers Athletes In Paris closely followed by beardy outfit Is Shepherd administering a pumping dose of double bass driven folk.

Atlanta-based producer and tea-fancier Evan Colbert (trading as Earl Da Grey) should surely be concentrating on his schoolwork rather than making dextrous house tunes like Wireless - after all, he’s 15 and so probably wasn't even born when the first Harry Potter book came out. And Wartgore Hellsnicker's record company tweeted congratulations to Tom on being "man enough" to play Karl vs Groucho from their misguidingly-named new EP Moderate Rock. Click on the link below and hear for yourself: there are plenty of adjectives you could use to describe their rock, but we think you'll agree that "moderate" isn't one of them.

Tom Robinson and Tom Alvarez

FRESH ON THE NET SUMMER MIXTAPE: downloadableHERE

ATHLETES IN PARIS - Just Decline
http://athletesinparis.bandcamp.com

THE MACHINE ROOM -Girly
http://www.myspace.com/themachineroommusic
http://soundcloud.com/tapestudio-1

EARL DA GREY - Wireless
http://soundcloud.com/earlgreymusic

IS SHEPHERD - Pine Box
http://isshepherd.com/wordpress/

FRED’S HOUSE - TV for Sleepers
http://fredshousemusic.co.uk

AERIALS UP - Stay Awake
http://www.aerialsup.com

SUSHEELA RAMAN - Raise Up
http://www.myspace.com/susheela.raman

MIAOUX MIAOUX - Hey Sound
http://miaouxmiaoux.com

CURXES - Jaws
http://curxes.com

THE MUEL - All Kinds of Love
http://www.myspace.com/samwalkers

TWIGGY AND THE KAY MESONS - Doepfer Fantasie
http://www.myspace.com/twiggyandthekmesons

ELK - Return to Sender
http://www.thebandelk.bandcamp.com

WARTGORE HELLSNICKER - Karl vs Groucho
http://www.myspace.com/wartgorehellsnicker

ClOUD4MATIONS - Dropout
http://soundcloud.com/cloud4mations

HELLO MEXICO - Five Twenty Seven
http://www.myspace.com/hellomexico

POOR MICHAEL - Entomology
http://soundcloud.com/poor-michael

WE HUMANS - I Don’t Care
http://facebook.com/wehumans

TALLIN DAGGERS - Fresco
http://tallinndaggers.com

NGOD - Wardrobe
http://ngod.bandcamp.com

SILVER CAVES - Chasing Little Sparks
http://silvercaves.bandcamp.com

HOWARD JAMES KENNY - Digits Point
http://howardjameskenny.com

SHOWSTAR - Monkey See Monkey Do
http://showstar-thinkringo.bandcamp.com

LIFE BITTER SOUL - Rhythm Says Go
http://soundcloud.com/lifebittersoul

PHYSICS - Room In Your Heart
http://physics-music.tumblr.com

BRONZE MEDALLISTS - Mathematics
http://www.myspace.com/bronzemedallists

LAURENCE AND THE SLAB BOYS - Space Dream #2
http://facebook.com/theslabboys

KIT RICHARDSON - How to breathe Underwater
http://soundcloud.com/kit-richardson

ABEZILLA - Guide
http://facebook.com/abezillauk

OSTENDERSTRASSE - Everything Is Real
http://ostenderstrasse.com