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Modified Toy Orchestra

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Last broadcast on Mon, 7 Mar 2011, 19:00 on BBC Radio 6 Music.

Synopsis

In session tonight with their bits and bobs it's the Modified Toy Orchestra. Five years after the release of the debut album Toygopop, the band release Plastic Planet Feb 11 2011.

MTO explore the hidden potential and surplus value latent inside redundant technology; a process creating sophisticated new electronic instruments from abandoned children's toys. They have been at the forefront of a worldwide underground movement called circuit bending, which involves rescuing children's electronic toys and converting them into new strange and wonderfully sophisticated musical instruments. Taking them apart, they find new connections hidden within each toys circuit that reveal new sounds, thus exposing the surplus value of redundant technology. Toys are reassembled, including switches and dials with which to control this surplus value. The results of this process can be shockingly beautiful, funny and also extreme.

Brian Duffy on Toys, Darren Joyce on Toys, Laurence Hunt on Toys, Sean Tighe on Toys and finally Greme Rose on toys - phew.

Music played

  1. Modified Toy Orchestra — Qwerty

  2. The Jesus and Mary Chain The Jesus and Mary Chain — Never Understand

  3. The Vaccines The Vaccines — If U Wanna

  4. Final Form — Everything Everything

  5. Jessica Lea Mayfield Jessica Lea Mayfield — Our Hearts Are Wrong

  6. UK Subs UK Subs — All I Wanna Know

  7. Kim Fowley — Bubble Gum

  8. Jane's Addiction Jane's Addiction — Been Caught Steeling

  9. The Young Knives The Young Knives — Love My Name

  10. Ria Bartok — Tu La Revois

  11. Modified Toy Orchestra — Funfair For The Common Man

  12. Joni Mitchell Joni Mitchell — California

  13. Screaming Lord Sutch — Jack the Ripper

  14. Laura Martin — Spy

  15. Wild Beasts Wild Beasts — Albatross

  16. Modified Toy Orchestra — Great Kings Fall

  17. Lia Ices — Little Marriage

  18. Eric Bogosian — Fat Fighters

  19. Fisk Jubilee Singers — Blow Gabriel Blow

  20. Stereolab Stereolab — Wow And Flutter

  21. Metronomy Metronomy — The Look

  22. Bo Ningen — Korashitai Kamochi

  23. Electric Eel Shock — Japanese Meets Chinese in USA

  24. The Smiths The Smiths — Vicar In A Tutu

  25. Pixies Pixies — Wave of Mutilation

  26. Benjamin Francis Leftwich Benjamin Francis Leftwich — Pictures

Broadcast

  1. Mon 7 Mar 2011
    19:00
    BBC Radio 6 Music

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A programme from

  1. Marc Riley

Duration

120 minutes

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