Re: [microsound] New David Toop?

[Joshua Maremont <thermal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:17 PM +0100 11/24/00, Øivind Idsø wrote:
> Not sure if it´s microsound or not (I´m guessing it isn´t ;), but has
> anyone heard David Toop´s latest, "37th Floor at Sunset" (Sub Rosa)?

I have been a fan of Toop's music since his excellent "Buried Dreams"
with Max Eastley on the sadly missed Beyond label, and on that one
and on his subsequent albums it has been the organic character of the
music - the sense that the churning beds of sound are alive and
breathing and evolving - that I have found most interesting and
intoxicating, especially as this often hallucinatory vitality has
crept across the changing styles and migrating lineups of his albums
quite intact.  The new one on Sub Rosa was indeed a bit of a
surprise, as Toop here has inhaled the tools of the digital domain
quite audibly into his sonic world, yet despite the new mechanical
creatures of this more concrete and glassy realm the samples and
softwares still bubble and simmer in the perhaps now postprimordial
soup of his rich and largely analog sonic canvas.  As for
microsonics, they are indeed here, but like the bunkers of Andrej
Tarkowskij's zone in "The Stalker" they have decayed into the service
of the mulch and the murk.  Like Neina, Toop's sunset floor shows how
the strong personality of a musician can mold new tools according to
his or her own image, rather than allowing the tools themselves to
reinvent his or her style.  And, yes, it is a recommended listen.

np - Yellow6 "Overtone"
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