Plone 'Press A Key' (Wurlitzer Jukebox, 1997) (mp3 download)

The mysterious Plone were a short-lived Birmingham experimental audio lab that released one album on Warp as well as a handful of singles and this, their debut 7" for Wurlitzer Jukebox in 1997.

Obviously in thrall to the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and peers of Broadcast, Pram and Stereolab, Plone set the ground for the Ghost Box label to deal in their quirkily-synthed hauntology.

'Press A Key' is a mellow piece of library music that is based on a rolling groove of synth bass and analogue-sounding drum machine. The melody is pure Radiophonic oscillation, suggesting a public information film about the dangers of larking about on trains late at night.

Or maybe it sounds like the entry into the Music 2000 competition on Look Around You of Stanford Torpedo a computer programmer from Milton Keynes who has managed to make music by converting the brain activity of toads into machine code.

Download Plone 'Press A Key' (mp3) (Mediafire)