Work in progress until last day of month! Enjoy!

MTD Mixtape October 2023

Recorded Live.. Hence the length.

Credit to the ghost of Colin for the image.

Docking Shot

A spiralling journey where metaphysical rodents fight against the erosion of ethics in modern media and the Junkyard of Silenced Poets accidentally invent Acid Strauss music…

"Trademark spy movie guitars and jerking, fluid polyrhythms abound while the piano plays semi-atonal choppy chords and the percussion track involves a variety of unusual noises. There is some classic sixties-influenced jazz-tinged cinematica happening here. Indie Noir perhaps or Alt Noir. It is a fine piece of instrumental exploration either way." -- Neil March (Trust The Doc, Edition 81, June 2023)

Selected as one of the tracks in Bulzara's Guest Curator Eclectic Picks for Signal Committee over on Tom Robinson's Fresh On The Net:

https://freshonthenet.co.uk/2023/06/eclectic-492/

Played on the very first Live Show on AsonicA Radio

"the alternative universe of Junkyard of Silenced Poets" -- Lyonsy (Punk and Indie Show, SLE Radio)

included in the Amazing Radio playlist - OUTRÉ INDIE

music composed and performed by Junkyard of Silenced Poets - copyright and all rights reserved

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Junkyard of Silenced Poets:

"Killer groove" & "Irresistible jam" Tom Robinson (musician & BBC Radio 6 Music broadcaster)

“Banging beat” Dipesh Parmar (President - Ministry of Sound Records)

“Super unique!” Jaguar (Broadcaster, Journalist & DJ BBC Radio One & Mixmag )

“Gritty and authentic; makes me want to hear more” Emerald Rose Lewis (DJ & Presenter BBC Radio 1Xtra & Rinse FM)

“Nice down tempo vibes” Steven Braines (co-founder of HE.SHE.THEY. collective)

"Dystopian psychedelic jazz" Lyonsy (Punk and Indie Show, SLE Radio)

Music played on BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio Nottingham, BBC Derby & BBC Leicester; SLE Punk & Indie Show; The Psychedelic Jukebox; Johnny (Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs) Hedley's Base Frequencies; etc

Selected as the first track on Signal Committee’s Eclectic Picks at Fresh On The Net – & other triumphant returns

Fresh Fave over on Tom Robinson's Fresh On The Net: Feb 2023, July 2022, March 2022 & Feb 2021

Musical collaborations w/ Uncle Kid & Gorstey Lea Street Choir

Guest Curator of Eclectic Picks

Contributor to The Dark Outside

Memorial Device Alternative National Treasure

Multi-Directional "Choose Your Own Adventure" Audio-Visual album at Signal Committee's Yoghurt Pot >>

www.yoghurtpot.co.uk/manchineel/automata

The Twice Nice Mice versus The Suppression of Free Agency

MACHINE LOVE

I drew a bar graph

And on the x axis I plotted

Date of birth to date of death

And on the y axis I plotted

Alcohol, nicotine, cocaine and meth

And I was able to extrapolate

A link between the y axis and the second date

I drew a pie chart

To help identify the pressures on my heart

The yellow slice was for people who are not nice

The blue slice was for fast food and egg fried rice

The red slice was for greed for the latest device

The green slice was for my tendency toward verbosity and my inability to be concise

It’s measured out in volts

This is the nuts and this is the bolts

Machine love’s what I’m thinking of

Why do people play at a recital and recite at a play?

Why’s a boxing ring square?

Why does snow fall but rain drops?

Is it double trouble if it comes in threes?

No one ever these days says please

Why’s a pizza circled if the box is square?

Each slice a triangle when you see it there

Why's a W called a double U when it's two V's together?

Why’d you look for a mirror just after crying?

It’s measured out in volts

This is the nuts and this is the bolts

Machine love’s what I’m thinking of

Machine Love

Thanks for this funky Stuff here, Big Like to my Friend Joerxworx,
To hot for us Grandfathers
https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx

Lunatics 99 Boddy Movement/ Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Lunatics 98 Body Movement/ Joerxworx & Ratzzz

Ellipsis- Return Orbit

The first year at the University of Glamorgan, probably late 2002. I only attended 3 lectures or so my entire career, preferring instead to plumb the depths of my soul and examine my mind from both micro and macro viewpoints, like a man standing between 2 parallel mirrors. After doing something that tends to keep you awake for too long, then doing it again, again, & then again. A marathon. 3 days later and still no sleep, a spider absailed down the curtains in my Halls cell-like box room. For some reason this produced an intense few hours of nightmarish arachnids lurking on ceiliings, chasing me down corridors, webs thick across the common room. God knows what I looked like, tearing wild-eyed past the silent doored & slumbering student rooms. Eventually managing to wake Matt, Apprentice Green's drummer, multi-instrumentalist & all round good egg. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the spider invasion had not occurred & I had not, in fact, been whisked off as the Devil's plaything to the caverns of Hell. Even the original rappelling spider was actually a bit of fluff suspended on a thread of curtain material. Ah well. Stay in school kids. 

The song was written a year or so later, morphing through a few forms. Special mention goes to Brummy's loping bassline & Matt's guitar overdubs. All recreated here. I have no idea how I wrote the piano riff. Probably just mashed the keys until it sounded good. Much like I do now.

Apprentice Green

Nightspiders

Leaking Andromeda

Memories

Straight Pride Month is a jazzy noise rock blast of unmitigated fury that ends with the closest approximation TFS to a showtune. Musically the song find TFS returning to their standard mesh of varied time signatures, unreleting melodic noise with a sound that feels like a rollercoaster cart that is about to come off the rails at any moment. 

It’s fitting that a song about upset gammon moaning about why they “don’t get a special month” just for being standard features Tom Robinson on backing vocals. The man who was not afaird to stand up and shout ‘Glad to Be Gay’ at a time where homosexuals were still being persecuted both by police and public alike - Tom was one of the pioneers in saying “fuck you” to bigotry. TFS view it as an honor as well as a career highlight. 

The lyrics are pretty straight forward, a call out to why there’s a pride - a clear sample, aimed towards all the homophobes with ‘lest we forget’ stuck on thier white vans. Clearly they forgot.  With a classic shout out to let all complainers know that now there is a straight pride month they can come out of the closets and live free, running through fields hand in hand with Theresa May who hates gay people. 

The song is the second of 4 new releases recorded by Those Fucking Snowflakes, mostly self produced due to lack of money or interest from people with money. The drums were recorded poshly by Tom Peters at Trapdoor Studio in London and the songs were mixed by Chris Hope of Milkshed Studios in Chorley. Everything else was badly recorded by the band themselves. 

Barreh - shouts and left guitar (some centre guitar too)
Cybs - right guitar
Sam - all the bass and some backing vocals
Troisnyx - all the drums and some backing vocals
Tom Robinson - backing vocals

LYRICS

Every month is straight pride month
Every month is straight pride month
Every fucking day of your life
Your heads held so high

Stop -  your stupidity, think before you speak
Hetro realtionships were never illegal
No fear of violence. Just for feeling love

Prosecuting Alan Turing, for the crime of being gay
A national hero, was chemically castrated
This can’t happen again. This is why, there’s a pride

All you brave fabulous hetrosexuals
stride out into this bright new day
No longer living in fear, of being beaten again
For a love you cannot choose
March out - and feel no dread
of being mocked for who you are
Fly your new straight pride flag high
It’s beige and easy on the eye
You can now be who you are 
There will be curbed enthusiasm in the streets

Every month is straight pride month
Every week is straight pride week
Every day is straight pride day
Every hour is straight pride hour
Every minute is straight pride minute
Every fucking moment on this earth

Straight Pride Month (ft Tom Robinson)

The latest song from the upcoming album Here Come The Real Flower Pots

Indie Rock (42%)
Indie Pop (31%)
Folk Rock (22%)
Alternative Rock (20%)
Folk (14%)

Birdie

The Tired Game

Foam Animals

All around the world
People are ringing their hands,
Why oh why oh why oh why,
Can’t we learn to love each other?
Is what they say,
As if that’s the only way

Maybe it’s not,
Maybe that kinda jumped up sentiment’s part of the mess we got ourselves into

Maybe it’s best to let people get on with it, 
Maybe they’ll let you get on too…

Seems to me, 
That toleration holds the key,
Yeah it’s the very foundation of a dream situation,
Can’t you see? 
It’s such a wonderful thing,

I want to raise your expectations,
I want to say what I’ve been dying to say, 
Want to achieve my aspiration, 
I want to be part of a tolerant nation

Maybe it’s true, 
Maybe just putting up with each other’s a remarkable thing to do, 
For me and you 

Maybe it’s best to say live and let live each day,
Maybe they’ll say the same thing too…

Seems to me, 
That toleration holds the key,
Yeah it’s the very foundation of a dream situation,
Can’t you see? 
It’s such a wonderful thing

I want to raise your expectations,
I want to say what I’ve been dying to say, 
Want to achieve my aspiration, 
I want to be part of a tolerant nation

I wanna go, I wanna see,
I wanna know, I wanna be

I want to raise your expectations,
I want to say what I’ve been dying to say, 
Want to achieve my aspiration, 
I want to be part of a tolerant nation


Tolerant Nation

Junboy

Sweet Virginia

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