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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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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 2h

And 5 solid minutes of gratuitous wrestling

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 17h

Just watched Tron: Abides

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Unsolicited Slick Rick

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Honorary mention

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

I shared these recently, but why not again

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

No stone unturned 😉

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

Loved writing this piece

FRBH Recordings @frbhrecs.bsky.social · 1d

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.

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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 · 1d

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

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Meanwhile Patrick from Cymande lived in Balham in the 60s, hung around in Brixton, and one of his favourite bands at the time was Jethro Tull

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Here’s the thing, and I’m not trying to discredit your experience, but my point was you didn’t need to live in the heart of Brixton to hear it, and Rodigan is a prime example. He lived in rural Oxfordshire and discovered Jamaican music via Millie doing My Boy Lollipop on Top Of The Pops in 1964

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

It’s odd that that they played earlier Specials singles even though they’d just released their Ghost Town which was at number 1 here at the time, while The Selecter got a later single which didn’t even chart

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

I love the fact Musical Youth were the first black group to get played on repeat on MTV

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Oh Carolina was first. Released at the start of 93, and reached number 1 in March opening the floodgates for a load of similar rhythm n blues influenced dancehall in the summer like Tease Me (which reached 3), Boom Shackalack by Apache Indian (5), and Shout by Louchie Lou & Michie One (7)

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Musical Youth, most of the 2 Tone brigade, and... www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2XG...

Johnny Nash on TISWAS - 04/03/1978

YouTube video by Robert Exley

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wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Ever checked who produced that?

wrongtom @wrongtom.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps one of my downfalls is I’ve been quite vocal about this kind of thing, and I’ve refused to work with a few folks due to their horrible/stupid views