Every week we say it: "For radio play your track MUST be uploaded to BBC Introducing. No upload = no airplay" And every week excellent new music by UK artists arrives in our inbox at Fresh On The Net that I can't even consider for my radio show. 

Sometimes the artists are non-UK residents but more often they simply didn't read the instructions. We receive far more great tunes than we can possibly play each week, so if yours isn't on the BBC Uploader when we come looking for it, we simply play one of the others instead.

Here are 22 great tracks that I liked recently but couldn't include on my BBC Introducing Mixtape - playlisted for your listening enjoyment, in alphabetical order.

Extra Gems

Bird Wandering Off - W.O.N - 10 4,000 Years (non Album Track)

Pop Cultural Pirate

Also available at https://deerful.bandcamp.com/track/before-us-comes-the-flood-pocket-operator-arcade-demo

Written and played entirely on a Teenage Engineering Pocket Operator PO-20 and mixed badly by me in Ableton. If you like this enough to tip me for it, it is pay-what-you-want on bandcamp: https://deerful.bandcamp.com/track/before-us-comes-the-flood-pocket-operator-arcade-demo

PAY WHAT YOU WANT LINK

Before Us Comes The Flood - Pocket Operator Arcade version

Download 'The Mental Institution' here
http://www.datpiff.com/Ezae-The-Mental-Institution-mixtape.769784.html

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Spartan!

Ritalin And Squidgy

Like, repost and download! Hope you like it. 

Savage

Conformist releases his new album ‘Paid To Fake It physically on Monday the 6th of August it's available to download via all good digital outlets now. This follows on from the well-received single; the crunchy dynamics of ‘Savages Go Modern’, which resulted in a BBC, live session and extensive coverage. 

28-year-old Michael Simmons is the man behind Conformist, hailing originally from the picturesque village of Dale in Pembrokeshire. Michael's musical inspiration quickened with a move to Cardiff's beckoning City lights.
Conformist expertly manipulates and reassembles intricate ultra modernistic layers of sounds, sampling from cable TV shows, shopping channels, talk shows, pornos, the dregs of TV, hacking, editing to extreme levels of complexity, cutting and pasting together a complex patch work quilt of filthy noise the soundtrack to the cities seedy post-apocalyptic consumer obsessed underbelly!

‘Paid to Fake It’ is an extraordinary album of post-modern dexterity. From opener and first single the crunchy 808 dance rhythms of ‘Savages Go Modern’, through ‘Ladybug Ladybug’ that’s bewildering use of cut up menacing apocalyptic samples (“Everybody’s Dead”) are driven by thudding beats, post punk guitars and futuristic off the wall Art of Noise-esque soundboard hits. To the deconstructed dub step and movie quotes of menacing album track ‘Post Death Sales Spike’ to the nightmarish arcade sounds of ‘Mr Grosse and Mr Playfair’, Conformist presents you with his enthralling but dizzy rush of ideas and noises. Conformist’s glum swatches of electronic sound offer a neat line in humour too, morally bereft and cutting to the punch line, exposing cliché and avoiding it. Thus his work is built for the dance floor as much as it is for thought provoking head moving headphone sessions in the dead of night. 

 In the past Conformist has gained airplay on Steve Lamacq's on R1 and Adam Walton's Radio Wales show and earned the praise of local tome The Miniature Music Press and the influential Careless Talk Costs Lives magazine.Whisperin and Hollderin called his work 'audacious and brilliant' while the Daily Post hadn't heard anything this weird since 'Aphex Twin'.

Conformist is also the driving force behind Cardiff's newest audio production facility, Smash Mastering, offering mastering, mixing and acclaimed remixes. See his work on local boys Kutosis' track 'Islands' and Bury Me in LA's 'Young Lust Seekers' these served as a taster for his recent single 'Savages Go Modern' and the astounding full long player ‘Paid To Fake It’ out this August!
 
http://www.conformistmusic.co.uk

Conformist - Ladybug Ladybug

Tom Robinson (b.1950) is a songwriter and broadcaster who's released 14 studio albums and won two Sony awards for his radio work. He champions new independent artists on his podcast The BBC Introducing Mixtape on 6 Music and sponsors the music blog Fresh On The Net. He's also co-written songs with Elton John, Peter Gabriel and Dan Hartman over the years. The original Tom Robinson Band first became known in the 1970s as supporters of Rock Against Racism and LGBT rights, following their breakthrough hit  ‘2-4-6-8 Motorway’

Ritalin And Squidgy

Paul D Sheppard

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