Well, that's me run out of toytown tekno examples!
I thought there was a huge wave of this stuff, but I could only think of seven in total.
Surely, I'm missing something obvious.
There must be loads more - after all, it was presented, at the time, as some kind of scourge - like there was this lemming-like legion of post-"Charly" imitators ripping off kids's TV themes from the 1970s and 1980s, destroying the rave scene with their regressive inanity.
Any suggestions?
(There's probably quite a few gabba examples, and possibly some happy hardcore ones, but I'm thinking really of that UK moment '91 / '92)
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I can recall at least a couple of german toytown tracks - though not very good ones, admittedly. One of them was even based on Sesame Street as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkFtrJcQlAc
The other on Pippi Longstocking:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-lA7LGVw60
Arguably Marushas "Over the Rainbow" cover, though that was a couple of years later:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HmFg0WYx34
I don't know if this qualifies:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HumHfqNzBps
It is based on an old racist childrens song, but the feel is very different from the usual toytown silliness. Which was otherwise very much a part of TTTs image:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZawa0M_iCs
Toytown Jungle Techno....?
https://youtu.be/k-Piv-8XczQ
I don't think this one has been covered?
Urban Hype - A Trip To Trumpton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMkvaVhEusE
Oh we have Trip to Trumpton, it's early in the sequence
I came across another track that has Trumpton samples
More toytown tekno to come in a few days
there isn't much of it because early dance music positionality and chronicling was based on the balearic continuum which only really discovered techno around 92-93. Someone like weatherall atoned for his sins later, but only later. Otherwise what reinforced were doing around 91-92 is basically breakbeat techno (I.E: 6techno made by hip producers, not europhiles.) In fact I believe in certain places like Hamburg they called early ardkore breakbeat techno, well, according to Finn Johannsen at any rate.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eZlg2vyRs0
there's a toytown version of the beatles if you really want to go look for it under the Obviously High moniker but it's fucking shit, makes Trumpton sound like Masters at Work.
hip hop producers, not hip producers, not sure why that got mangled! But actually I like it, cos in a way the ravers were hip in a way the dizzi heights mandem were not.
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