wrongtom
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“DJ, producer and professor of musical information” - Tom Robinson (BBC 6music). Contact: [email protected]
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Joined December 2008
In honour of Sleng Teng's 40th anniversary, I've spent a while uncovering why today isn't actually Sleng Teng's 40th anniversary. Read it over at @theQuietus
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Wrongtom undertakes some detective work around the birth of the most famous digital dancehall riddim and discovers something unusual
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And I chopped up Mark Romanek's 99 Problems video (with a smattering of Hard-Fi's Good For Nothing) to fit my remix, if you need incentive to click the link above and subscribe
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Hello, I've been neglecting this place, but if anyone on here isn't subscribed already, here's the latest Dubstack featuring a bootleg of 99 problems which I made (semi) officially back in 2011
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And if you've not heard the first Think In Flight, it's up on Mixcloud.
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Before Brit-funk blew up around the turn of the 80s, there were various groups dotted across the UK making funk and funk-rooted soul, jazz-rock and R&B, most of which rarely gets mentioned beyond a...
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New Dubstack, new mixtape. In the latest chapter I've shared a 90 minute mix of funk, soul, jazz and afro-rock from UK shores which predates the Brit-funk boom at the turn of the 80s. Plus I've revisited an old piece I wrote about Windrush back in 2020
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For the latest chapter of Dubstack, I've delved deep into the unexpected origins of Rapper's Delight and how it almost reached the top of the UK pop chart around Christmas '79.Subscribe/read here:
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Episode 3 of The Rough Guide To Rongorongoland is live on @sohoradio's Mixcloud, featuring my guest @DJGregBelson who brought a bag of hot beats and the long lost Hightower Set LP which was recorded 30 years ago. Listen back here
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RT @theQuietus: Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explor….
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RT @blackwax85: .@TheWrongtom post film Q&A with @paulineblackOBE. The film screening was one of the highlights for me of the 2025 London I….
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Today on Soho Radio…. Join me on a trip across the imaginary musical landscape of Rongorongoland in the 1st episode of my new monthly show. Along for the ride this month is Fingerlickin’ label boss @jemstonemusic. Tune in 4 til 6pm GMT
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Just thought I'd drop in here and say FUCK THE SUPREME COURT AND ALL TRANSPHOBES. Bye
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So who's not ordered their Somethin' Else 7" or bought the digi version yet. ?
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RT @boomshots: Big Up @TheWrongtom nice piece on @theQuietus about Sleng Teng origination. "Like a Human Flood".
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Wrongtom undertakes some detective work around the birth of the most famous digital dancehall riddim and discovers something unusual
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Hey, what's all this. ?. For @bandcamp Friday, I've dusted off the master of my Sleng Teng version of Eddie Cochran's Somethin' Else which I recorded with vocalist Desta Zion before the Sleng Teng Somethin' Else story was debunked back in 2015
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The latest edition of Dubstack is live featuring a long thing I've written about Roberta Flack and Eugene McDaniels, and there's a strange dub I've made of McD's Jagger The Dagger for my full subscribers
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RT @otwradioarchive: I have some related ramblings on this, but you’ll need to pop over to Bluesky to read ‘em.
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