i want to write about the above but don't know where to start because the record is well, a collective effort of pop mentalists. so let's chat about toah dynamic and perhaps someone can springboard a good idea to hold the entire piece together!
― doom-e, Friday, 27 June 2003 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)
haven't heard too much by 'em, my friends got a couple of 7s that are kinda sound-collages without much personality (maybe coz there is no real authorial centre). bablicon are far better.
plus kid acne's involved innit? that worries me a lot.
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 27 June 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)
why would that worry you? it's 'cops hate our love' - what do you think of kid acne. i find toah dynamic; strangely fascinating, like a greasy freak dancing outside the dss office at six in the morning.
i need opinions, people!!!!! i need yer opinions, let's talk!
― doom-e, Friday, 27 June 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)
kid acne as artist=grate. esp. those pizza boxes.
kid acne as emcee=awkward. 'did he really say that?' but for all the wrong reasons.
― nebbesh (nebbesh), Friday, 27 June 2003 10:06 (twenty-two years ago)
i think the collective is strong - the fact is, it's probably the most bizarre collective since toolshed (
http://www.poptones.co.uk/soundoff/soundoff20032006.shtml) - needs to be editted, i've been trying to flow out the words, but hell, the catholic in me won't admit that...)
what do you think of supreme vagabond craftsman?
― doom-e, Friday, 27 June 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)
I’ve been trying to write about this record for months; the fact is, it is indescribable – not in the way that one would say about the cult-like Madonna and her American Life rap, but it is something, auditory that is truly indescribable. The facts are thus: Invisible Spies sent me a review copy of the album when I had heard in the underground that progressive psych rock was rearing it’s head again and that I have to hear this album, by Toah Dynamic, a collective of Earl Hilton (screamo rock legend of Boltthrower), Supreme Vagaband Craftsman (Oasis and The Shaggs in a chinese restaurant bust-up) and Kid Acne (Artist and Surreal Emcee). When it came in the post, I was excited, I put it on and something changed. I could not write about this record. For a few months, this fact has been haunting me, almost as difficult as trying to descirbe the Toolshed collective. Both are brilliant pieces of music which are five years ahead of their time in the camped-out operative heavy metal obsssessed scenee of fake cock-rockers.
But with the somewhat successful musings of the Toolshed album (insert link) I listened to the Toah Dynamic record on the bus this morning; and I got it. I got how to describe their sound. Obvious acid-dub experimentation of an extra-terrestial kind, Toah Dynamic is as life should be.
anti-folk music with industrial beats playing in front of the DSS building, after major delays on the 91 bus route?
the record is a sound-collage of acid-dub mentality and propably unlike anything recorded, perhaps it is the music of shaun ryder's brain whilst sucking on that crack pipe; but however, I digress, it's simply like nothing I have heard before. I can pinpoint the influences - the fall, happy mondays, kraut-rock but the lyrics are brilliant
"you confessed to me that your mom had a hysterectomy"
it's very bizarre.
― doom-e, Friday, 27 June 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)