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@wrongtom.bsky.social

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“DJ, producer and professor of musical information” (Not my words, but the words of my learned friend Tom Robinson. The 6music/2468 Motorway Tom Robinson, I mean, not the Nazi one). Contact: [email protected]

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · Mar 7

Happy Bandcamp Friday!

A decade since we made it... Wrongtom Meets Desta Zion 'Somethin' Else' rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com/album/someth...

Download and a limited 7" (which will ship out as soon as it's pressed)

Somethin' Else, by Wrongtom meets Desta Zion

3 track album

rongorongorongo.bandcamp.com

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Reposted by wrongtom

Simon Ward @drrubberfunk.bsky.social · 6h

Been porting some Dr Rubberfunk playlists across to Tidal from the green site. First up, Remixes & B-Sides: tidal.com/playlist/7d8...
20+ yrs of releases, includes my remixes of tracks by Stereo MCs, Mombasa & The Blockheads, and reworks of my songs by Steinski & @wrongtom.bsky.social among others!

Dr Rubberfunk Remixes & B-Sides

Playlist - Dr Rubberfunk Remixes & B-Sides - 42 items

tidal.com

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 4h

I no longer have an alphabeticized record collection, and the world no longer has D’Angelo 😢🕊️

A screen grab of an old tweet which reads “the best thing about having an alphabeticized record collection is D’Angelo sitting next to Phil Daniels”

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Double took. I thought this was Neil Morrissey on first glance

M Meerkat @kackbro.bsky.social · 1d

Good For You Senator Schiff 👏🏻
We Will All Stand With You against
Chump's Authoritarian Regime.......

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Post you from a different era

Perpetrating a bit of criminal damage in 'A Short Film About Meat' which I directed in 1998

A sallow faced young hoodlum with iffy facial hair but great eyebrows sprays on a wall in an underpass beneath the A3 near Tolworth

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2d

I was just reading about Dick Gregory's 1965 fishing protest for a future article (about a house classic) I'm planning, and realised it would've been his 93rd birthday today

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2d

Babe 2 is arguably Miller's greatest achievement

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2d

I do this and everyone asks if they've just died

Sexy Andrew Hickey Costume @andrewhickey.500songs.com · 2d

Every couple of weeks someone great dies and we all make a big thing about how great they are (this week's is Diane Keaton) and it's always lovely because everyone is talking about fun things a cool person did. But I wish we could nominate one person a week we did that for *without* them dying.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2d

That Herbie Mann tune 👌🏼

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2d

And 5 solid minutes of gratuitous wrestling

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Just watched Tron: Abides

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Good sir, I am a reggae producer, and have been for a long time now. I don’t think I need to justify liking it. I was simply hoping to illustrate that reggae was once, and more many years an endemic part of British pop culture, and not the best kept secret that some would like us to believe

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

I'm sorry, Andy Partridge, but show, don't tell 😉

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Unsolicited Slick Rick

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Honorary mention

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

When Double Barrel hit number 1, Dave Barker only had one suit which started falling apart during their relentless tour of the UK

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

I shared these recently, but why not again

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

No stone unturned 😉

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

And keep 'em peeled for the Equals piece I wrote for Bandcamp Daily which should be going live any time now

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

My original copy is wrecked, but I luckily stumbled on a collection of almost mint promos from a radio station, and managed to replace it along with a load of others I'd played to death like Young Disciples and London Posse.

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

My full interview with PJ from SUAD is here rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-6-...

Chapter 6: Dance Before The Police Come

In which I chat with PJ from Shut Up & Dance about reggae, raves and Jim Reeves.

rentparty.substack.com

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Loved writing this piece

FRBH Recordings @frbhrecs.bsky.social · 3d

Cheer up your Saturday with this article by @wrongtom.bsky.social on the formidable Shut Up & Dance - special mention for “18 Inch Speaker” as well

daily.bandcamp.com/features/shu...

How Shut Up & Dance Cross-Wired Reggae With Rave, Techno, Jungle, and More

In the late ’80s and early ’90s Hackney’s PJ and Smiley had UK dance music in their grip.

daily.bandcamp.com

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

So most people in the States' first experience of 2 Tone was this break-neck version of the sound, performed under duress and much harder and punkier than originally intended. And it's this which supposedly influenced the comparatively faster ska-punk scene which sprung up in the US

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Yes! For context, they were essentially in the early stages of breaking up when they did SNL. Exhausted from a US tour and mostly sick of the sight of each other, they returned to NYC and performed this ridiculously fast and aggressive version of their first single

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

It looks like the living room of a guy who owns box fresh Nike duncs in every colour way

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 3d

Do you know the theory about the Specials on Saturday Night Live and its impact on American bands?

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