Tothar
Tothar - The Beyondophonic Action Hour - Sundays 7PM - 8PM Pacific
Beaming in from the planet of Akron, Ohio, Tothar has been amassing a diversity of records since his toddler days. As the story goes, Tothar learned to read from 45 labels, by matching favorite songs with particular letter combinations like “Shadows On My Wall - The Poppy Family.” In addition to hosting The Beyondophonic Action Hour on LuxuriaMusic, Tothar has co-hosted The Beyondo Mondo Record Party, a freeform radio show on WAPS-FM in Akron from 1999-2008.
In his alter ego of Michael David Toth, Tothar has produced the Perez Prado ¡Primal! CD for the UK Rev-Ola label, has written for Cool & Strange Music! Magazine, and is a regular contributing music/arts writer for the regional weekly Cleveland Scene. Semi-annually starting in 1996, Tothar organized live DJ events memorializing the nearby Canton, Ohio birth of Enoch Light, which expanded into an odd international franchise of simultaneous Enoch Light DJ events. He’s also criminally overdue in making updates to his Three Suns Universe reference Web site.
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Philosophy of my radio show: There’s a wildly infinite world of music out there just waiting to be tasted and explored and enjoyed. My obsessive addictions to retro-futurism and catchy pop hooks spun in mind-meltingly inventive arrangements will invariably influence my song selection.
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Five artists LuxuriaMusic listeners will hear on my show: The Guitars Unlimited Plus 7, Laxmikant Pyarelal, The Free Design, Sparks, and the German stage cast of West Side Story
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To derive the maximum pleasure from my radio show: Listeners should imagine themselves simultaneously living inside of Forbidden Planet, Tati’s Playtime, the 1965-1969 Avengers episodes, and every 1950s UPA Gerald McBoingBoing cartoon.
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When I'm not DJing I can be found: Consuming British spy/sci-fi TV and comics and/or contemplating questions like, “How have modernism and post-modernism both failed to reflect the reality of human nature in an intellectually honest way?”
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The secret superpower I possess: Phonosynthesis – the ability to use carbon dioxide and water to turn recorded sound waves into oxygen and a substance not unlike Cap’n Crunch.