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Tooth

About Me

Tooth History
in late 96 Sir Robbo, known for his involvement in the Frigid/Cryogenesis crew, the cult Head Shots magazine and member of dub allstars Atomic Hi-Fi met Kevin Purdy, sonic adventurer, who as Purdy had been developing a catalogue of down-tempo experimental sounds for some years. Together, they found their musical, cinematic and cultural aspirations acutely interwoven. This was the birth of Tooth.
Within a very short time Tooth's own brand of psychedelic, cinematic, folk, soul & dub laden tunes were finding their way onto many compilations and their live performances making their way into Sydney folklore.
in 1999 Tooth released their first CD album No Strings, an album adored by many, praised to the high heavens in the Australian media becoming for months a staple on independent radio around the country.
By 2001 there were many more additions to compilations and a higher development of performances, due to the inclusion of legendary bass playing wizard John Maddox becoming a third member. After many months in the Soft studio Tooth released an even more adventurous album entitled,Sirens from here to Titan. Grandly cinematic in its scope, Sirensi. journeyed from finely shaped melodies and hypnotic, solid rockin' rhythms, with a hinted theme stretching the deepest of mythical seas, spiraling to Kubrick-like visions in far outer galaxies.
The repercussions of this fab new work led to Tooth supporting such acts as Tortoise, Labradford, Pan Am, Burnt Freidman as well as many fine headline performances and inclusions at major festivals and events such as the Sydney Festival and Big Day Out.
The next couple of years were none too kind to any leftfield travellers, undesiring of the new state of consumerist hedonism devouring the once blooming music culture. Tooth went into a semi-hibernation, though they released their killer 12 Shift / Sons of shade as well as several remixes and comp tracks. Then in 2005 with a renewed verve Tooth buried themselves deep into developing an album which was to be their finest work, Mudlarking, a double CD epic, with all of musicality, passion, hope, anger and release accumilated over the years into an earthy and highly charged work. Released in Australia in May 06 Mudlarking bowled over punters & critics with its irresistable sonic colour & depth. The reviews have been incredible and radio here has given it quite a flogging.Mudlarking is getting some wonderful props from all over the globe now. Some might say well deserved.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 28/04/2006
Band Members: Tooth:
kevin purdy aka Purdy = production/guitars/percussion/keyboards/arrangements
shane roberts aka sir robbo = production/percussion/melodica
john maddox aka Homologous Fent = double & electric basses
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Influences: MUSIC

Vashti Bunyan - Jimi Hendrix - Robert Wyatt - Eno - Love - Dwight Twilley - Miles Davis - the Kinks - the Beach Boys - Lee Scratch Perry - Terry Callier - Marvin Gaye - John Coltrane Fred Neil - Nirvana (UK) - Phil Spector - Turtles - Pretty things - Stereolab - Iggy Pop - Daevid Allen - Television - Serge - Syd - Sly & the Family Stone - Bob Dylan - Big Star - David Bowie - Beatles - Small Faces - Roxy Music - Hank Williams - The Smiley Rivers Tighten Up Band - Geno Washington - John Fahey - Fleur De Lys - Richard Thompson - Nick Drake - Ronnie Lane & Slim Chance - Todd Rundgren - Joe Meek - sonics - Van Dyke Parks - Roy Harper - Captain Beefheart - Hieroglyphics - Velvets - Byrds - Os Mutantes - Moondog - Spirit - Keith Hudson - Charles Mingus - Morricone - T Rex - 13th floor Elevators - Rascals - Joe Meek - Deviants - Pink Floyd - Free Design - Pere Ubu - Milton Brown - Sun Ra - Jackie Mittoo - Neu!- The Specials - Youngbloods - Talk Talk - Smokey - Nilsson - KLF - Wu Tang Clan - Norman Whitfield - Talking Heads - The Slits - Tamam Shud - The Heptones - Caravan - David Mancuso - Shuggie Otis - Linda Lewis - The Orb - Can - Studio One - Fela - Glen Brown - Native Tongues - David Axelrod - Scientist - Dexys - Curtis - Happy Mondays - Gong - Prince Jammy - Parliament/Funkadelic - Kraftwerk - Isley Brothers - J Dilla - Channel One - DJ Shadow - The Beat - Mark the 45 King - Harry Mudie - John Martyn - Jack Nitzsche - Temptations - Chess/Cadet - McDonald And Giles - KPM - Minnie Ripperton - Joe Gibbs - Donovan - Hugo Montenegro - Quincy Jones - The Ethiopians - Brave New World - Brian Auger - Traffic - Diamond D - Sly And Robbie - Bobbie Gentry - Faust - Derrick Harriot - EPMD - Stax - King Tubby - War - Alice Coltrane - Johnny Cash - The Association - Ian Dury - Black Sabbath - Dan Hicks and his Hot Licks - Alan Hawkshaw - Yatha Sidhra - Main Source - Pharoah Sanders - Eugene Mc Daniels - Fifty Foot Hose - Labi Siffre - Treasure Isle - Mandrill - Cluster - Eric B and Rakim - The Monkees - Marley Marl - Bounty Killer - Roy Budd - Sergio Mendes - Brainticket - Curt Boettcher - Kevin Ayers - Skatalites - Lee Hazlewood - Masta Ace - Niney the Observer - Marc Moulin - Larry Heard - Silver Apples - Ultramarine - Steely Dan - Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Light of Saba - ESG - Andy Weatherall - Depth Charge - The Pharcyde - Liquid Liquid - Dr. John - Suicide - Count Ossie - Manfred Mann - Fairport Convention - Wire - Fotheringay - Pentangle - Roy Shirley - Brand Nubian - Mother Mallard's Portable Masterpiece Co. - DJ Premier - Henry Banana! - Kak

FILM

Francois Tuffaut - Martin Scorsese - Alfred Hitchcock - Akira Kurosawa - Robert Altman - Hal Ashby - Francis Ford Coppola - Brian De Palma - Fredrico Fellini - Stanley Kubrick - Orson Wells - Jean Luc Goddard - Michelangelo Antonioni - Roman Polanski - John Waters - Bob Rafelson - Dennis Hopper - Sam Peckinpah - D A Pennebaker - Joseph McGrath - Roger Corman - Andy Warhol - Howard Hughes - Alejandro Jodorowsky - Dino De Laurentiis - Sergio Leoni - Warren Beatty - Spike Lee - Peter Bogdanovich - Charles Chaplin - John Cassavetes - Frank Capra - Luchino Visconti - Coen Brothers - Jean Renoir - Darren Aronofsky - Howard Hawks.

AUTHORS

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Sounds Like: Several small furry creatures rolling on sheets of crumpled cellophane whilst humming Sister Janet Mead's version of The Lord's Prayer
Record Label: Soft Records
Type of Label: Indie

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