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This week's celebration of (mostly) new, (almost entirely) Welsh music is embellished by a debut live session from Rhyl's .

Rhyl producing a Big Dipper of a raw ass, brimstone-fuelled blues band might seem oxymoronic, but if the blues were going to find a home anywhere in Wales, where better than Rhyl? It's Vegas on methadone incorporating . Like the Detroit that inspired The White Stripes' contemporary take on the blues, it's the more desperate parts of the town that drive Bright Young People's songs and give them a real emotional clout.

The Hepburns are equally informed by their hometown of Llanelli. Songwriter Matt brings humour and melodic nous to poetic vignettes of the humdrum. Their new album, How The Mighty Are Fallen (Radio Khartoum), is their seventh in a 25-year career. Yet far too few people in Wales have heard of them or had an opportunity to delight in their craft. Imagine Dylan Thomas writing lyrics for the Go-Betweens, with Tony Hatch at the recording console. Or, better still, get a copy of the album and make up your own hackneyed comparisons!

Huw Williams has a thing for Gene Latter. Gene recorded some storming singles for Parlophone during the 60's. Previously Huw had dug up one of Gene's blue-eyed Northern Soul floor-fillers. This time round we play his gloriously life-affirming paean to Tiger Bay. It's a great, unsung record.

Bethan Elfyn has been at the Green Man festival all weekend. Her show live from the festival on Saturday evening is available for a week on iPlayer. Beth was visited in her mobile studio by Resolven's psychedelically-enhanced El Goodo. Their campfire strum through Information Overload gives those of us who didn't get to don funky wellies this weekend an opportunity to sample some of the glories of what we missed.

A man called Ben inspires us with some Love. Well, technically some Arthur Lee from after the 'proper' Love line-up split, but "inspires us with some Love" has a better ring to it.

And I have tunes.

Most of them are new and Welsh.

They're all pretty good, depending on taste, of course.

I'd like more, please.

.mp3s high on ideas, with all the dull filtered out, should be mailed post haste to themysterytour@gmail.com

Or, Adam Walton, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Wales, Library & Arts Centre, Rhosddu Rd., WREXHAM LL11 1AU

This coming Sunday night I'm setting myself the task of playing 30 new Welsh bands/artists I've never played before. EEK!

Spread the word, please.

Lots of love and fabulous sounds,

Adam

(Wrexham)
Sonderhof

(Connah's Quay)
L.a.f.s

(Cardiff)
They Came From The North

(Rhyl)
Smoke Without Fire (session Version)

Dal Fi Fyny

(Cardiff/Ammanford)
Awesome Tapes From Africa

(Cardiff)
Holly

YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS (Cardiff)
Wurlitzer Jukebox

(Resolven)
Information Overload (live With Beth At Greenman)

Colossus

(Cardiff)
Scribble (high Contrast Remix)

LAND OF BINGO (Mold)
Bottle It In

(Holyhead)
Island Living

DUB WAR (Newport)
Black

(London/Chepstow)
Up Against The Wall

(Cardiff)
Business Is Good (radio Edit)

DE LA SOUL
Change In Speak

(Cardiff)
Dyddiau Braf (rap Cymraeg)

(Llanfairfechan)
Gwlad Ar Fy Nghefn

(Rhyl)
Track 2 (session Track)

GENE LATTER (Cardiff)
Tiger Bay

DEAD KENNEDYS
Holidays In Cambodia

CUB CUB (St Asaph)
Cumulusstratuscirrus

(Cardiff)
Novachord

(Camarthen/Caerleon)
Eira

(Caernarfon)
Little Girl

(Llanelli)
Vanishing Act

THE HEPBURNS
Sad, Free, Excited And Empty

THE HEPBURNS
The Help

THE HEPBURNS
Ken Park: The Man, The Film

(Cardiff)
Basslines In (darkside Remix)

(Swansea)
Sunset

(Holyhead)
What's Happened To You Has Happened To Me

(Cardiff/London)
Walking On Eggshells

(Mold)
Aerophlot

(Rhyl)
Track 3 (session Track)

ARTHUR LEE AND LOVE
Everybody's Gotta Live

THE MICE ON THE MOUSE ORGAN (Mold)
Day Two (heights)