Today's random shuffle is Sportsday Megaphone from 2009.
One of many, many bands that were added to my collection via the music sites and blogs that proliferated at the time, in this case either RCRD LBL or via Hype Machine, two which opened me up to a ton of artists and MP3s.
I know very little about Sportsday Megaphone: a "one-man electro blizzard" (that one man being Hugh Frost) producing "indie laptop-pop" or "dinky, lovely bedroom pop" depending on whether you read Mixmag or The Guardian or both at the time.
Sportsday Megaphone started as an art project at Brighton University, creating imaginary album covers, the name stuck and Hugh went on to release an album So Many Colours / So Little Time on the Sunday Best label, along with a clutch of singles and remixes.
I have just the one single, Meet Me In The Middle. Along with George Mellor, Hugh drew, animated and directed the video.
I've included the three singles in their original and remixed form.
The only other song in my collection is a charming cover of Ever Fallen In Love (With Someone You Shouldn't've), a Buzzcocks classic from 1978. Of course, it can't beat the original, but I don't think it tries to and is all the more enjoyable for it.
The track originally appeared on the gargantuan 89-track Buffetlibre DJ's Rewind Mixtape 2, also a freebie download in 2009, Sadly now lost in cyberspace, you can at least pore over the tracklist here.
A quick check and So Many Colours / So Little Time is still available from the Sunday Best Bandcamp site, either in digital or CD format. One for the shopping bag this Bandcamp Friday, perhaps.
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