And once again, if you haven't clicked the Dubstack link above, here's a preview of my Beastie Boys dub mix

Oh, go on then, I've gone into detail about the Jeremy Healy/Beastie Boys story, and shared my dub mix of Beastie Revolution over at Dubstack rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-49...

Absolute fucking winner. Just give up and go home everyone. It's done. Over. Finito.

Don't know any of this music well, don't even like Beastie Boys AT ALL but @wrongtom.bsky.social always has some of the best music writing around.

You've Surfed your last Butthole

Supreme work as always from @wrongtom.bsky.social. IIRC Healy was the go-to exemplar of 'superstar DJ getting 5/6 six figure fees and helicopter rides between gigs' during dance music's era of madness?

Lots of free subscribers popping up in my in box this morning, but please, if you want to help me feel slightly less stressed as I near the end of the month with barely any income thanks to my studio being too hot to work in, then please spare a few quid if you enjoy my endless stream of music info

Arguably the greatest UK top 20 hip hop tune which sampled The Turtles yet somehow wasn’t the focus of the $2.5m Turtles v De La lawsuit which changed sampling laws, drastically reshaping the economic and creative landscape of modern music

This heatwave has had a pretty detrimental effect on my work this week and I’ve missed a couple of deadlines. On the off chance you’ve been thinking about splashing a few quid on a Dubstack subscription then it’d really save my bacon right now rentparty.substack.com

Souvenir de Froggy en 2010 : Roots Manuva meets Wrongtom - Duppy Writer - Big Dada, c’est le label de la maison Ninja Tune qu’abritent les artistes moins évidemment pop/dance. Parmi eux, l’anglais Rodney Smith, aka Roots Manuva occupe une... https://froggydelight.com/article-9539-article.html

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Frasier was a psyop to promote Seattle as a town of gentile bookish coffee drinkers at a time when it’s most famous export was the disheveled and smacky punk-rock of grunge

Arguably the greatest post-cow-punk pop record by a guy who’d go on to inadvertently bankroll the Beastie Boys when he used an unlicensed portion of their punky-reggae track Beastie Revolution in a British Airways advert which he’d produced

I don't really care for the whole reggae being sunshine music notion, but on punishingly hot nights, this Benjamin Zephaniah track always hits the spot. A lethargic loping one-drop rhythm which, despite the song's title, feels like it's perspiring. None more clammy www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsKY...

Currently trying to write about this record for @thequietus.com, but also melting

Fun fact: Purdie's 1st recording session was in 1959 for Sylvia Robinson who paid him $80 to play on an update of Love Is Strange. 20 years later, Robinson produced ur-hip hop anthem Rapper's Delight. She didn't work with Purdie again but he'd wind up one of the most sampled drummers in hip hop

Arguably the greatest top 20 album which opens with a song featuring drums sampled from a record by a guy I met on a park bench in Morden a couple of years later

Bit late to the party on this so I might post more than one a day to catch up. #DavidsMonthOfMusic 1. Song by a One Hit Wonder. Was going to go with the obvious Three Non-Blondes 'What's going on?' but I'll use this instead (thanks to @wrongtom.bsky.social) music.youtube.com/watch?v=pYWi...

Hope you're all enjoying not working in a makeshift studio in a loft today

I watched Backrooms last night and, as unsettling as it was, I now really fancy veggie meatballs and a slice of daim cake for lunch

Arguably the greatest side project which only happened because their accountant pointed out they were almost broke while David Byrne and Jerry Harrison were off making their own albums

"And it's a good night from him" "And it's a goodnight from me"

Love the bad guy rolling up as a milkman listening to The Pretenders on his tinny Walkman headphones www.youtube.com/watch?v=dx12...

Arguably the greatest Bond theme which led to collaborator and long term Bond composer John Barry allegedly referring to the band as Hitler Youth in a Belgian newspaper following the song's fraught production which began with a-ha taking issue with Barry being mean about Duran Duran

I hope this means he has time to put the band back together. Catch Starmer on tour with Funkapolitain and Bim later this autumn

Giving 'Rub Out' a morning push because it deserves it at 50. Can't find an exact release date, but maybe @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social has some intel

This dad is very tired, but I liked this sort of Man Ray effect

Happy father's day to all the decent dads out there. Here's mine back in the late 80s having a nice cup of tea after the washing went on the radiator. I miss him horribly on days like this

Arguably the greatest top 10 debut by a boy band featuring the son of a rock n roll revivalist who played on Martin Rushent's first synth-focussed production in 1976 which paved the way for one of the most important records of the 1980s, Love & Dancing by The League Unlimited Orchestra

Happy Dad-Dad-Daddy-O Day

Arguably the greatest hip hop single based around a Detroit techno record made by a Vietnam War veteran who called himself 3070 (pronounced Thirty Seventy), possibly because he viewed himself as 30% female, 70% male, and used in my mid 00s DJ sets supporting Hard-Fi who released a single which is...

This sounds like an excellent compilation, it was a rich seam for UK Reggae back then (Steel Pulse, Matumbi, Aswad, UB40, etc)

When shaving a large and unkempt beard, it’s important to briefly recreate goatee choices of yesterday. 1996 vs 2026

Arguably the greatest collaboration featuring a singer who had her chez lounge stolen from outside the venue when she played Epsom Playhouse in 1990

I miss my Wednesday evening trips to Resonance

50 years since what was quite possibly the first reggae release using Lee Perry's EKO ComputeRhythm (as featured year later on Shinehead's Billie Jean) www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD4k...

Every first draft resembles the Love & Napalm chapter of Ballard's The Atrocity Exhibition

The first iteration of my Wrongtom Meets project

I don't really get imposter syndrome in most of my creative endeavours, but when it comes to writing I'm always a little nervy when my articles go live. So it's both a relief and somewhat galvanising to get the seal of approval from Mr Paphides

Wrongtom dismantles the unhelpful idea of the one hit wonder with some help from a new anthology of early recordings by Musical Youth Reissue of the Week: Mash Down Birmingham by #MusicalYouth buff.ly/3Z9VFZf

Here's an excerpt from my radio show with Richard discussing synth pop and his surprising introduction to Chicago house

My old buddies Hard-Fi have released their 1st album in 15 years today, and I love this nod to Richard's long term love of synth pop www.youtube.com/watch?v=481z...

I've dismissed the idea of a one hit wonder in my piece about @petepaphides.bsky.social's new collection of early Musical Youth recordings for @thequietus.com thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Just dropping by to remind you all that this guy once wrote a novel about a lady whose holiday romance is cut short when her lover drowns, but continues when he mysteriously returns from the dead. It was inspired by Gordon’s walks around the rocky coasts of Guernsey

#TBT 2003

I was looking through a pile of old photos for something, and found this one of (I think) Dev Hynes from Test Icicles who I don’t know, have never met, and have no memory of taking this photo 🤔

Arguably the greatest UK number 1 by a once aspiring organist from Balham, based on a song from a musical which explores the complexities of interracial relationships in WWII-era Polynesia, and produced by a Wimbledonian who inadvertently made the 1st digital-steppers dub record the previous year

Taking a moment to remember the great Tenor Fly who we lost a decade ago Tune: Tenor Fly & Deman Rockers ‘Dan Man’ Image: Deman in the Wrongtom Meets Ragga Twins ‘Follow Fashion’ video which we shot not long after Tenor died

Pushing this dub of Tabu again because it's a) pretty good, and b) I think more of you should be subscribing to Dubstack rentparty.substack.com/p/chapter-48...