{"title":"Tot Taylor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTot Taylor is a multi-talented artist hailing from Cambridge, UK. With his diverse skills as a singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, and art curator, Tot has made a significant impact on the music industry. Currently based in London, he continues to create captivating music that resonates with audiences worldwide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs a singer-songwriter, Tot Taylor's unique style and heartfelt lyrics have earned him a dedicated fan base. His compositions showcase his versatility and ability to connect with listeners on an emotional level. Whether it's an upbeat track or a soulful ballad, Tot's music never fails to captivate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn addition to his musical talents, Tot Taylor is also known for his work as a record producer. He has collaborated with numerous artists and helped shape their sound into something truly remarkable. His keen ear for detail and passion for perfection make him an invaluable asset in the studio.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"yoko-oh","title":"Yoko, Oh","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst new music in a while from legendary pop auteur (founder of The Compact Organisation, schoolboy band signed to Island, author, etc). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This autumn I’ll be releasing some new music. Three new songs, each in the form of a letter. The first is a love-letter - to my favourite Beatle - Yoko Ono. The second is a letter, perhaps sick note, to my teenage self. The third is a letter of intent, to Donald Trump. More of that later. Here’s a bit about the Yoko song: was listening to the radio one day and the DJ mentioned ‘answer records’. He played \u003ci\u003eOh, Carol\u003c\/i\u003e, Neil Sedaka’s big hit about Carole King which went to #1 on the Billboard Top One Hundred (1961). Carole responded with an ‘answer record’, \u003ci\u003eOh, Neil\u003c\/i\u003e, that same year. I was at school when I first heard John Lennon’s \u003ci\u003eOh, Yoko\u003c\/i\u003e from \u003ci\u003eImagine\u003c\/i\u003e - which I took to be a kind of answer to \u003ci\u003eOh, Carol\u003c\/i\u003e. I then read that John had liked Lonnie Donegan’s skiffle song \u003ci\u003eLost John\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), while \u003ci\u003eOh Yoko \u003c\/i\u003esounded a little like \u003ci\u003eOh, Carol\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLost John \u003c\/i\u003ecombined, with its skiffle beat and tender lyric. I wondered why there’d never been an answer record to that. 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Paying respects to those who were overdue it (Yoko Ono, bebop singer Bob Dorough) and taking aim at those who thoroughly deserved it (Donald J. Trump, a vicious school teacher and 'cars in general’). Frisbee is utterly beguiling - a relentlessly upbeat-sounding record about downbeat, subject matter. Accompaniment is by the Byatt Macrobiotic Unit Symphony, featuring Shawn Lee, B.J.Cole \u0026amp; Lewis Durham. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTot Taylor grew up in a Cambridgeshire village where his parents ran the only shop for ten miles: a confectioners wedged between two USAF airbases, (the source of the infant Tot’s early listening habits). The shop was regularly visited by the Glitter Band, National Hunt jockeys ‘riding out' and Barry Sheen. Tot was signed to Chris Blackwell's Island Records while still at school. He founded the independent label The Compact Organization and has continually moved between the fields of music and the visual arts (inc film) as well as curating museum-level art exhibitions worldwide from the iconic Riflemaker gallery in Beak Street, Soho taking over a former gunmaker’s workshop to create a multi-floor, multi-discipline space right in the heart of London. The gallery worked with Tate Modern, MoMA (the Museum of Modern Art, NY) and Frieze London exhibiting groundbreaking work by feminist artists Judy Chicago, Yoko Ono and Penny Slinger along with William Burroughs \u0026amp; Gavin Turk among its 300+ exhibitions. His 2017 novel The Story of John Nightly was voted one of the best of that year by the Guardian newspaper and singled out for praise in Q, Mojo and Record Collector. He founded a new record label in 2020 called TheCampus whose first releases have been by British painter Bob \u0026amp; Roberta Smith and Swedish artist Virna Lindt. The release of Frisbee follows Tot’s recent singles (inc those ‘about' Donald Trump and Yoko Ono - as well as his recent 'luxury protest anthem-in-waiting'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCD features four extra songs, some different mixes to the LP, and zone-mastering for ‘in-car’ listening. It’s as different an experience to the LP as the ‘whiteout’ cover image is to the yellowy LP sleeve. The cat has jumped. The bird has flown. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Campus","offers":[{"title":"Clear | LP","offer_id":50456986026315,"sku":"1123609","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/2453ea83-bfc8-47e8-abfd-5c233ecba76d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727202182"},{"product_id":"i-get-my-kicks-in-nw6","title":"I Get My Kicks In NW6","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I spent the summer months of 1980 at The Music Works studio in Holloway, North London. I had twenty songs to record and NW6 was the first.  My first ‘flat’ or maybe just ‘bed’ on moving to London from Cambridge had been in  the then run down ‘long and winding’ West End Lane, NW6.  I shared an upstairs room in a large seven room mansion flat there with the singer and writer Riff Regan and twelve other ‘hopefuls'.  Myself and Riff didn’t know each other when we moved into the place though quickly found out  we were ‘blood brothers’ both (separately) in the process of recording what would be our ‘debut’ albums, he for MCA and myself for GTO\/CBS. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e  Unbeknown to myself and Riff both albums we going to be very much ‘budget' recordings as far as the record labels were  concerned which in my case meant that I physically ran between the actual performing studio, the ‘live room’   and the ‘listening' or ‘control-room' (to save precious studio minutes).   My first location having moved up to London from Cambridge was Central Street in the East End which had been rough, particularly as I had found a full time job locally as a night-porter, working through  the nite 11pm - 9am in a very busy multi-room commuter’s hotel so I was pleased to be moving  from there (escaping) to the leafy streets of NW6, even if it did mean I was sharing a bedroom with four other people.  This song came out of that move and it’s almost too-upbeat energy is a celebration of my first couple of months  of living there. The recording was due to be released on 1 May 1980 but in the month’s leading up to it the record label  - GTO - was sold and absorbed into CBS and I and other ‘new signings’ became part of a bigger machine.  That’s a long story … suffice to say I managed to get this song recorded myself laying in to the energetic performance  style of the time, adding some cute lyrics and warming chords.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Campus","offers":[{"title":"Black 7\" | Signed Copy | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50474287923531,"sku":"2211518","price":6.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/IMG_5402_45755efa_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727435270"},{"product_id":"this-new-abba-record-funny-mood","title":"This New Abba Record \/  Funny Mood","description":"\u003cp\u003eTot Taylor’s new single is a ‘political song about ABBA’. i. e. life is a bit shit at the moment but there’s an ABBA record coming… as in real life there really is. A-side is an all out ‘disco bomber’ - what Eurovision sounds like in 2021 - with the B-side reflecting Tot's state of mind locked up during Lockdown. Neither track will be on the upcoming vinyl LP due in May. Recorded at the legendary RAK Studios, cut @AbbeyRoad, pressed @ The Vinyl Factory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTot Taylor is a legendary pop auteur (founder of The Compact Organization and the ‘pre-punk’ group Advert-I-Sing), had a schoolboy band signed to Island and is author of the novel 'The Story of John Nightly’ (Random House), he also curates exhibitions and happenings at Riflemaker gallery in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Campus","offers":[{"title":"Black | 7\"","offer_id":50481111269707,"sku":"1111768","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/815dde8d-6713-424f-90ff-1af5bcfd2f60_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727533685"},{"product_id":"baby-i-miss-the-internet","title":"Baby I Miss The Internet","description":"\u003cp\u003eAvailable in both 7” and 10” formats, Tot Taylor’s third vinyl single of his ‘new trilogy’ is one of the UK record industry's first known ‘anti-Trump’ anthems: \u003ci\u003eBaby, I Miss The Internet\u003c\/i\u003e, which imagines the scenario following Trump's much-documented threat to ‘take down the Internet’. Recorded over a whole week, with full ‘macrobiotic’ symphony orchestra at RAK London, this deluxe protest song is in the style of 1970s balladeer Barry Manilow. It makes for ‘eerie’ rather than ‘easy’-listening. A seven-minute epic for our era.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 10” features a ‘sing-a-long’ backing-track ‘B’-side so you can make your own version of the song. 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Animation by Chris Gavin. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I’ll go my own way I’ll do what I say I’ll say what I like I’ll like what I play I’ll look under stones Find a world of my own Sow a seed that isn’t sown Gonna get myself a-goin’ Y’ can’t do anything alone...\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTot Taylor is a legendary pop auteur (founder of The Compact Organization), had a schoolboy band signed to Island, is author of the novel 'The Story of John Nightly’ (Random House), and an art curator at Riflemaker gallery in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Campus","offers":[{"title":"Blue | 7\"","offer_id":50481113629003,"sku":"1102894","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/a6cb9a55-03cd-42a2-a812-9a6016fc5e4b_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727533754"},{"product_id":"fortune-s-child","title":"Fortune's Child","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn keeping with the themes of his just-released \u003ci\u003eFrisbee\u003c\/i\u003e album - one of our (and Don Letts') albums of the year - Fortune's Child is a brand new song “about people” - previous singles being ‘about’ Donald Trump, Yoko Ono, ‘bad’ teachers, ‘good' teenyboppers, ‘petrol-heads’ and ABBA! Fortune's Child details the life - and fortunes - of a 'young and innocent' kid dumped into the London Art Scene by starstruck parents. New double - A-Side mixes by RAK’s Robbie Nelson @dirtyfader and Joe Dworniak (Riverfish, PZ). \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Campus","offers":[{"title":"Purple | 7\"","offer_id":50482011537739,"sku":"1147286","price":7.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/5d409734-8a00-48bd-95e4-06b0a3f0476d_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727548017"},{"product_id":"now-youre-talkin","title":"Now Youre Talkin","description":"\u003cp\u003eTot Taylor ushers in his upcoming album \u003ci\u003eStudio Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e with a brand new single - a song about ‘everyone doing the right thing’ (for each other)  which will lead to the release of the new album. Recorded at legendary RAK Studios, in London’s St. John’s Wood, during the weeks immediately following the end of lockdown,  \u003ci\u003eStudio Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e  is… a ‘wild trip through pop music sonics’  as Tot explores not only “every instrument and sound known to Man” but keeps the lyrics “very real” and “very Now!” as the real world outside of the studio rebalances and adjusts - and the sun  finally reappears!  \u003ci\u003eStudio Sounds\u003c\/i\u003e is an incredibly UP! record.  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The album begins with This Kid's Hair, a walkin-talkin song about Cambridge legend Trevor Crick and his legendary ‘loafcut’ bouffant before Tot goes full-on political  with the roustabout rockers Joon Moon and Yesterday's T Shirt. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Campus","offers":[{"title":"CD | Rough Trade Exclusive","offer_id":50518926295371,"sku":"2166043","price":9.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/Studio_Sounds_77445ad7_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727965856"},{"product_id":"monster-ravin-looney","title":"Monster Ravin' Looney","description":"\u003cp\u003eFollowing up his ‘comeback album’ \u003ci\u003eFrisbee\u003c\/i\u003e, there is a brand new 7” vinyl single.  The song Monster Ravin' Looney is an unabated swipe at our political leaders where ‘Politico Pop messaging' meets crunchy piano and clanky guitar in a ’tale of our times’.  Recorded at the legendary Rak Studios, London with Duncan Fuller, Shawn Lee and Paul Cuddeford,  Monster is from the upcoming new album due in May.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Tot Taylor is a legendary pop auteur - (founder of The Compact Organization and the influential ‘pre-punk’ group Advert-I-Sing). He was signed to Island Records while still a Cambridge schoolboy and is author of the 900-page novel 'The Story of John Nightly’ (Random House). Tot curates exhibitions and happenings at Riflemaker gallery in London and lectures at Sotheby's Institute. 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