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Tortoise

Tortoise is a group from the US, active since 1990.

Group US since 1990 post-rock instrumental electronica
TOTAL PLAYS
179
SONGS PLAYED
69
STATIONS
4
FIRST PLAYED
2008-03-28 08:27 · 6 Music — "Tins Cans And Twine - BBC Session 13/06/1996"
LAST PLAYED
5 months ago · 6 Music — "In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men"
BIO · WIKIPEDIA

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◦ ACTIVITY

Plays per year

2008 — 2025
30 23 15 8 0
'08 '09 '10 '11 '12 '13 '14 '15 '16 '17 '18 '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 '25
◦ WHERE

By station

6 Music 172 96%
Radio 1 3 2%
Radio 2 3 2%
1Xtra 1 1%
◦ WHEN

Common hour

0006121823

Peak hour: 21:00

◦ THE SONGS

Top tracks

BY PLAY COUNT
#TITLEPLAYSLAST
1 Rock On 13 2016-12-25
2 Vaus - BBC Session 13/06/1996 9 2017-08-30
3 Wait - BBC Session 13/06/1996 9 2017-08-30
4 Shake Hands With Danger 7 2019-12-09
5 Glass Museum 6 2025-10-19
6 I Set My Face To The Hillside (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) 6 2023-03-27
7 Yonder Blue 6 2021-10-24
8 Tins Cans And Twine - BBC Session 13/06/1996 6 2012-08-21
9 The Taut and Tame 4 2025-11-22
10 TNT 4 2025-11-22
11 Four-Day Interval 4 2025-06-07
12 Tnt (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) 4 2022-07-11
◦ THE LOG

Recent plays

2025-11-23 23:02 In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men 6 Music
2025-11-22 17:03 Layered Presence 6 Music
2025-11-22 17:00 Oganesson 6 Music
2025-11-22 16:55 Eros 6 Music
2025-11-22 16:50 Everglade 6 Music
2025-11-22 16:44 The Taut and Tame 6 Music
2025-11-22 16:41 TNT 6 Music
2025-11-22 15:18 The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls 6 Music
2025-11-16 19:40 Axial Seamount 6 Music
2025-11-15 15:41 Falls Lake 6 Music
2025-11-09 22:56 Works and Days 6 Music
2025-11-06 21:16 Axial Seamount 6 Music
◦ EVERY TRACK

All songs played

69 UNIQUE TRACKS · A–Z
▶
A Survey — 1 ▶
Aldeia De Ogum — 1 ▶
Aldeia De Ogum (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 1 ▶
Aldeia De Ogum (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 4 ▶
Aldeia De Ogum - BBC Session 29/03/1998 — 1 ▶
Almost Always Is Nearly Enough — 1 ▶
At Odds With Logic — 2 ▶
Axial Seamount — 2 ▶
Blackjack — 1 ▶
Daniel — 1 ▶
Dear Grandma and Grandpa — 2 ▶
Dj'ed — 1 ▶
Djed — 2 ▶
Eros — 1 ▶
Everglade — 1 ▶
Falls Lake — 1 ▶
Flyrod — 1 ▶
Four-Day Interval — 4 ▶
Gesceap — 4 ▶
Gigantes — 3 ▶
Glass Museum — 6 ▶
Hot Coffee — 2 ▶
I Set My Face to the Hillside — 2 ▶
I Set My Face To The Hillside (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 3 ▶
I Set My Face To The Hillside (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 6 ▶
in sarah mencken christ and beethoven — 2 ▶
In Sarah Mencken Christ And Beethoven (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 3 ▶
In Sarah Mencken Christ And Beethoven - BBC Session 29/03/1998 — 1 ▶
In Sarah, Mencken — 1 ▶
In Sarah, Mencken, Christ and Beethoven There Were Women and Men — 1 ▶
Layered Presence — 3 ▶
Magnet Pulls Through — 2 ▶
Minors — 1 ▶
Monica — 2 ▶
Night Air — 1 ▶
Oganesson — 2 ▶
Oganesson (Saul Williams Remix) — 2 ▶
Ox Duke — 1 ▶
Prepare Your Coffin — 1 ▶
Rock On — 13 ▶
Ry Cooder — 2 ▶
Seneca — 3 ▶
Set my face to the hillside-BBC session — 1 ▶
Shake Hands With Danger — 7 ▶
Six Pack — 1 ▶
Swung From the Gutters — 3 ▶
Taut and the Tame (Radio 1 Session, 13 Jun 1996) — 1 ▶
Taut And The Tame (Radio 1 Session, 13th Jun 1996) — 2 ▶
Taut And The Tame - BBC Session 13/06/1996 — 4 ▶
ten day — 1 ▶
Ten Day Interval — 1 ▶
Ten-Day Interval — 3 ▶
The Catastrophist — 1 ▶
The Suspension Bridge at Iguazú Falls — 2 ▶
The Taut and Tame — 4 ▶
Tin Cans & Twine — 1 ▶
Tins Cans And Twine (Radio 1 Session, 13th Jun 1996) — 1 ▶
Tins Cans And Twine - BBC Session 13/06/1996 — 6 ▶
TNT — 4 ▶
TNT (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 3 ▶
Tnt (Radio 1 Session, 29 May 1998) — 4 ▶
Tnt - BBC Session 29/03/1998 — 1 ▶
Vaus (Radio 1 Session, 13th Jun 1996) — 3 ▶
Vaus - BBC Session 13/06/1996 — 9 ▶
Wait (Radio 1 Session, 13th Jun 1996) — 2 ▶
Wait - BBC Session 13/06/1996 — 9 ▶
Why We Fight — 1 ▶
Works and Days — 3 ▶
Yonder Blue — 6 ▶