{"id":976,"date":"2009-04-08T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=976"},"modified":"2009-04-08T06:42:18","modified_gmt":"2009-04-08T13:42:18","slug":"xtro-toys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=976","title":{"rendered":"XTRO &#8211; Toys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous comment, here&#8217;s an obscure Juice Box Records EP that I love, but which not many people have heard. This release was by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btinternet.com\/~davehiryze\/cellmainpage.htm\">David Campbell<\/a>, who did tracks under countless aliases as well as engineering several Klute albums .  &#8220;Toys&#8221; features a breakbeat track on side A (though it&#8217;s programmed in a more techno style), and 2 great almost proto-wonky techno tracks on the B side. <\/p>\n<p>Just checked discogs and this seems to be going for pretty cheap, I remember paying a lot more for this EP when I finally tracked down a copy than this a few years ago&#8230;  the tunes were well worth it though! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.discogs.com\/XTRO-Toys\/release\/67356\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/images\/XTRO.jpg\"><\/a><br \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/XTRO - Untitled (A).mp3\">XTRO &#8211; Untitled (Side A)<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-976-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/XTRO%20-%20Untitled%20(A).mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/XTRO%20-%20Untitled%20(A).mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/XTRO%20-%20Untitled%20(A).mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<A href=\"\/blog\/audio\/XTRO - Untitled (B2).mp3\">XTRO &#8211; Untitled (Side B2)<\/a><br \/><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-976-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"\/blog\/audio\/XTRO%20-%20Untitled%20(B2).mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"\/blog\/audio\/XTRO%20-%20Untitled%20(B2).mp3\">\/blog\/audio\/XTRO%20-%20Untitled%20(B2).mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As mentioned in a previous comment, here&#8217;s an obscure Juice Box Records EP that I love, but which not many people have heard. This release was by David Campbell, who did tracks under countless aliases as well as engineering several Klute albums . &#8220;Toys&#8221; features a breakbeat track on side A (though it&#8217;s programmed in&hellip; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/?p=976\">Continue reading&#8230; <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">XTRO &#8211; Toys<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,138],"class_list":["post-976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tunes","tag-4","tag-techno"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogtotheoldskool.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}