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'' It's between this and Roll Deep's Rules and Regulations for the mixtape of the year. If you're not listening to this, you're late. ''
Fact Magazine
" PJ Harvey cant see T "
Number 9 in The Metro top 10 albums...
Cut yer boy TODDLA T open and you’ll be vaporized by the pure Sheffield electronics crackling inside him. The Steel City ‘Bleep’ bubbles right through the blood, brains and musical meat of this dirty rascal’s DJ stints, rerubs and original night-time material.
Weaned on the teat of bashment from a young age Mr T rolled through his early years on his hands and knees with ears glued to the speakers of his folks’ hi fi. Making beats, bass, blunts and girls filled his adolescence until he was crowned as inhouse studio boff at Sheffield’s Kenwood Studios at the grand old age of 19.
In the home of Dizzee Rascal’s ’Boy in da Corner’ he set to salting aural shit up. Working on material for DJ Cash Money, Roots Manuva and Steve Edwards let him polish his craft until the studio shut, and he dived headfirst into distilling his own bass heavy wonk until it was ripe for dissemination.
Hold onto your pants 2008, 1965 recording artiste, basement bulldozer and all round bobbling bass enthusiast Toddla T is officially bubblin‘ over. This elasticated Yorkshire boy maybe still in short trousers but at present, his wobbly bashment based electronics are becoming larger and even more well tailored for the discerning dancefloor booty…
The reverb so far? Well debut 12 ‘Do U Know?’, featuring 7 different riddims including a jackin’ rub from the Count and Sinden and dub from Warp forgemaster Rob G, slapped it to the livewire network of blogs and bass bins of de underground so rudely that the gatekeepers to the big time have just fashioned him a gold set of keys…
His Ghettoblaster mix tape got the various hype depots all frothy with many slenging it as the hottest selection of last year. Recent DJ sets at Fabric for Herve and Sinden’s Get Familiar and Bestival’s Reunion tour as well as Kiss FM and Diplo’s Mad Decent blog also illustrate that if ya get this lad on the x-ray, you’ll be blinded by the hot, dancehall flavoured bassline business buzzing right through him.
What you saying about next steps in the deep phat fryer? Well the djing larks just get hotter - not only is Toddla on tour with Sheffield jibber jabberer The Reverend, he’ll be taking the nocturnal shaking as far as Nottingham’s Liars Club, Switzerland, the Big Chill and Glastonbury.
Back in his lab and a string of forthcoming productions and remixes are strutting into view, revealing that while our boy knows how to slip the vibe inside a dance floor as smooth as a catheter on a drunk, he’s also primed his sonic production business to immaculate, rump bouncing perfection.
His latest glut of aural ear wagging shows that no one else draws on Sheffield bleep and the city’s penchant for Henderson’s infected dancehall so effectively. Expect a slab of heavy culture clashing with fellow 1965 scamps, the Metros, while one time Sheffield ressie and ex-Moloko chanteuse Roisin Murphy gets her booty firmly slapped on Toddla’s fresh rewiring of ‘You know me better’.
On top of further remixing work for Tricky, Lil Draggon, Anzyl Jones & MC Gringo, Toddla’s paired up with Mr Versatile for a mind melting break down of Hot Chip’s ‘One Pure Thought’ which has little of the Londoners‘ specky pop and maxmimus cheeky bleep. Add to that the wonky bassline of his own ‘Sound Tape Killin’’ plus some hefty remixes from Nasti boi and the hype surrounding our hero is sizzling nicely.
His previous career as shoe shop boy is officially over - The world of retail and receipts has been exchanged for red-raw basement jump offs and rewiring dancehalls full time. At present Toddla’s on the brink of inking an album deal with 1965, is again assisting macdaddy Roots Manuva finish his new album and is working as an integral part of the mysterious Machine Don’t Care cartel along with Trevor Loveys, Sinden and Debt Boi.
2008 is moving to the sound of Toddla T’s very own dance, beamed straight out of the girders and gutters of knife and fork vibes in Sheffield. If you u don’t know by now, then you need to reet now…
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