Rich Thair
(drums) - - Jake[one] Williams (electronics/vocals)
Live drums, electronics, vocals. Toob take all that they love in dub,
afrobeat, breakbeat and electro and throw it back out of the speakers
with the full-on, freeform energy of a true live band.
Formed when Jake was twiddling knobs for Rich's previous band, Red Snapper
- Jake started feeding twisted, off-key loops into Rich's monitor during
soundchecks, who then proceeded to lock-in on the drums. Liking what they
heard they played some gigs.
The result is a powerful, improvised and possibly unique mash-up of beats
and sound. They write as they go - the jams shaping their recorded tracks
and pleasing club and festival-goers in the UK, Europe and beyond greatly
in the process.
They have released 12"s on Groovetech, Flameboy and Lo Recordings
and their debut LP, "How to Spell Toob" was released on Lo Recordings
May 2005. The singles have been praised and played by a diverse range
of top DJs from Rolando to Rob da Bank, but the album also contains some
more delicate moments featuring singer/songwriter Zoe Bicat.
Toob forge on. With a desire to make their music an even more personal
and direct communication, Jake has started singing. This has taken the
energy levels at the gigs up another several notches and the duo are busy
putting this new material down as the basis of the second album - The
music mutating and moving forward with each show...
"on a par with classic, exploratory yet popular albums from the likes
of massive attack, underworld and of course red snapper... crammed with
tunes and melodies as well as fat beats and acid squelchiness" Rough
Trade on "How to Spell Toob".
"They peddle a tuff collision between live drum breaks, electro waveforms
and sneering punk attitude. More likely to throw a stick of dynamite down
your French horn than blow it, the jazz aspect in Toob's sound is the
improvisatory element that comes into play when they perform. Following
each other's leads, Thair and Jake crank out polyrhythmic tattoos of obese
funk. From banks of synths and electronic equipment, Jake presides over
the room, his laptop emblazoned with a green cross - reading the drum
patterns and responding with ever more fiendish, pharmaceutical riffs.
This is funk prescribed to wash brains of the bullshit." Ben Murphy,
DJ mag, on Toob live @ The Spitz, London 11/05.
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