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Late, late, late, late... sorry! Keen as I am to give you all of the information about this week's multithreaded, luminously patchworked quilt of the most interesting Welsh music I have heard, sometimes life gets in the way. Yesterday it was a freezer having a nervous breakdown and a daughter who has had the bleeding temerity to have a summer holiday from primary school. Selfish doesn't even begin to describe it.

I mean: how the heck am I supposed to immerse myself in new Welsh music and write cobblers about it when all of that is going on?

bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00t87lb/Adam_Walton_01_08_2010/

This week I splash around in the Taff with Hunters. Actually, they're 'just' in session but I thought it'd sound more dramatic if you got the impression we'd had to have a slo mo, underwater scrap with each other to get the session out of them. It's a super smart session, somehow melding leftfield nouse with tic-like melodies that are very difficult to unhinge once they've attached themselves. So, it sounds like Slint backing Tears For Fears. Almost. A bit.

Sonic subverter par excellence, Ectogram's Alan Holmes, reminds us of the youthful majesty of Crisialau Plastic.

Lara Catrin translates some very early Catatonia for those of us dysgu y Gymraeg.

A man called Ben (Hayes) spotlights a very uncelebrated facet of Cat Stevens' back catalogue.

And there is Fascinating New Welsh Music from all over Wales.

Send your demos to: themysterytour@gmail.com with a short biog + contact number.

Make 'em good. That's always a good idea.

Right, best go: I have 14 very soft Magnums to eat and my daughter's probably getting bored playing with that box of matches on the hard shoulder of the A55.

Have an excellent, music-filled week!

Diolch,

Adam

(Bangor)
Island Living

(Mold)
Aerophlot

(Newport)
Renegades

(Cardiff)
Is He Really Going Home?

(Swansea)
Debbie Loves Joey

(Cardiff)
Permanent Ink (session Version)

(Llangefni)
Bail Out

(Merthyr Tydfil / Cardiff)
Lights Out

(Penyffordd)
Something Better

(Ewloe)
Finders Keepers

FEATURING RALPH RIP SH*T (Penarth / Cardiff)
All That We Keep

(Caernarfon)
Original Sgamster

(Llanelli)
Knock Me Down

(Llanelli)
Vanishing Act

(Llanelli)
Sad, Free, Excited And Empty

(Llanrwst)
Hulusi (llwybr Llaethog Remix)

(Holyhead)
Cooking Fish

(Cardiff)
Trempanation

(Wrexham)
Sonderhof

(Cardiff)
Loose Lipped (session Version)

CRISIALAU PLASTIC (Aberystwyth)
Pryfaid

(Camarthenshire/Cardiff)
When You See Me (in The Pouring Rain) - Live Acoustic Version For Beth Elfyn

(Pwllheli)
Follow The Sun

(Aberystwyth)
Fat Rabbit

JOE BLOW AND STAGGA (Barry)
Acidicts

(Port Talbot)
Just Look Around You

DERRERO (Newport / Cardiff)
Radar Intruder

(Cardiff)
My Glass Is Always Half Full

(Bangor)
Motowei

THE MOUSE ORGAN (Mold)
Morning Motorway

CATATONIA (Llanrwst / Cardiff)
Dimbran

(Cwmbran / Pembrokeshire)
Shapes (la La La)

(Cardiff)
Broken Bell (session Version)

Was Dog A Doughnut

Adam Walton playlist and show info: Sunday 18 July 2010 (Cardiff)
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