David Toop
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David Toop (born 5 May 1949) is an English musician, author, and as of 2001 was visiting Research Fellow in the Media School at London College of Communication. He was a prominent contributor to the British magazine The Face. He is a regular contributor to The Wire, the U.K. based music magazine. His latest book was Ways of Hearing.
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On electro funk
- Urban spaceman Afrika Bambaataa and producer Arthur Baker, plus musician John Robie, were the trio behind a musical revolution called "Planet Rock", Bambaataa's 1982 single with Soul Sonic Force. Following the impact of "Planet Rock", UK groups made Electro-boogie pilgrimages to Baker's studio in Manhattan: Freeze's "IOU" rocketed jazz funk into the infosphere but more significantly, New Order's "Blue Monday" launched indie dancing and sold massively on 12". Also breaking and robot dancing, the acrobatic and simulated machine dances that drew many adolescents into the alien zone of black science fiction. Bleep music was one consequence of this. Hardly adequate to describe and encompass the protozoic chaos of New York Nu Groove, Detroit Techno, Chicago House, electro. Next came techno. -- David Toop for Wire magazine
Bibliography
- Rap Attack: African Jive to New York Hip Hop (1984) ISBN 0-89608-238-5 - republished with additional chapters as
- Rap Attack 2: African Rap To Global Hip Hop (1992) ISBN 1-85242-243-2
- Rap Attack 3 (2000) ISBN 1-85242-627-6
- Ocean of Sound: Aether Talk, Ambient Sound and Imaginary Worlds (1995) ISBN 1-85242-743-4
- Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes in a Real World (1999) ISBN 1-85242-595-4
- Haunted Weather : Music, Silence, and Memory (2004) ISBN 1-85242-812-0
Discography (partial)
Solo and Collaborative Albums
- New & Rediscovered Musical Instruments (with Max Eastley) (1975)
- Buried Dreams (with Max Eastley) (1994)
- Pink Noir (1996)
- Screen Ceremonies (1996)
- Spirit World (1997)
- Hot Pants Idol (1999)
- Museum of Fruit (1999)
- Black Chamber (2003)
- 37th Floor at Sunset (2004)
- Doll Creature (with Max Eastley) (2004)
Curated albums
- Ocean of Sound (1996) - (2-CD set intended to accompany his book)
- Crooning on Venus (1996)
- Sugar & Poison: Tru-Life Soul Ballads for Sentients, Cynics, Sex Machines & Sybarites (1996)
- Booming on Pluto: Electro for Droids (1997)
- Guitars on Mars (1997)
- Haunted Weather : Music, Silence, and Memory (2004) - (2-CD set intended to accompany his book)
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