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How a Glasgow art student took a Radiohead tune and a bunch of obsolete computers ... and created the latest YouTube phenomenon

By Edd McCracken, Arts Correspondent

The voice is vaguely familiar, but the backing band is anything but. On drums, an Epson dot-matrix printer. On bass, a Hewlett-Packard scanner. On lead guitar, a ZX Spectrum. And on vocals, filtered through the innards of broken hard drives, Radiohead's Thom Yorke.