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Our whole programme team had a get-together over lunch on Friday where we discussed - among other things - the finer points of reading the Harry Potter books - a job so enjoyable he himself likens it to "swimming in chocolate". Our intern Tom Alvarez was just seven when JK Rowling's first book in the series came out - imagine that!

More importantly we decided to try and make more artists aware of the importance of joining , so as to get paid when their tunes are played on the radio. There's no conceivable downside or upfront cost to applying for membership, and you can do it .

Anyway, on with the show and - what with our week off air during 6 Music's Glasto weekend and yesterday's show being given over to highlights from the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Introducing Stage - we've built up a major backlog of great tunes that have been waiting for ages to be played on air.

So we've bundled up 29 of them into a bumper free two hour mixtape that you can download here in podcast form from 3am Monday July 3rd, and are previewing the whole thing this morning from 1am.
The North East of England - that seething hotbed of musical talent which gave us and at Glastonbury - tonight supplies us with our indie show openers closely followed by beardy outfit administering a pumping dose of double bass driven folk.

Atlanta-based producer and tea-fancier Evan Colbert (trading as ) should surely be concentrating on his schoolwork rather than making dextrous house tunes like Wireless - after all, he’s 15 and so probably wasn't even born when the first Harry Potter book came out. And 's record company tweeted congratulations to Tom on being "man enough" to play Karl vs Groucho from their misguidingly-named new EP Moderate Rock. Click on the link below and hear for yourself: there are plenty of adjectives you could use to describe their rock, but we think you'll agree that "moderate" isn't one of them.

Tom Robinson and Tom Alvarez

FRESH ON THE NET SUMMER MIXTAPE: downloadable HERE

ATHLETES IN PARIS - Just Decline


THE MACHINE ROOM -Girly



EARL DA GREY - Wireless


IS SHEPHERD - Pine Box


FRED’S HOUSE - TV for Sleepers


AERIALS UP - Stay Awake


SUSHEELA RAMAN - Raise Up


MIAOUX MIAOUX - Hey Sound


CURXES - Jaws


THE MUEL - All Kinds of Love


TWIGGY AND THE KAY MESONS - Doepfer Fantasie


ELK - Return to Sender


WARTGORE HELLSNICKER - Karl vs Groucho


ClOUD4MATIONS - Dropout


HELLO MEXICO - Five Twenty Seven


POOR MICHAEL - Entomology


WE HUMANS - I Don’t Care


TALLIN DAGGERS - Fresco


NGOD - Wardrobe


SILVER CAVES - Chasing Little Sparks


HOWARD JAMES KENNY - Digits Point


SHOWSTAR - Monkey See Monkey Do


LIFE BITTER SOUL - Rhythm Says Go


PHYSICS - Room In Your Heart


BRONZE MEDALLISTS - Mathematics


LAURENCE AND THE SLAB BOYS - Space Dream #2


KIT RICHARDSON - How to breathe Underwater


ABEZILLA - Guide


OSTENDERSTRASSE - Everything Is Real

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