ey ey lovelies

I'm doing a New Years Eve gig in Arezzo, Italy this year... and to celebrate I've uploaded the track "Black and Blue" which is a collaboration with Arezzo's finest Electro doods, Presslaboys, back in 2008...

Enjoy, and, if you can get to Tuscany for a party to end all parties, do!!!!

toph

He thought about it every day
Of the sound and of the feel of the hurricane
Every time he closed or opened his eyes
He'd dream of making contact
He'd dream of heavy skies
He'd dream that he could conjure a great magnetic storm
To ward away the others
To leave them all alone
He longed to feel the danger
The branches that could snap
The panic and the peril
The bones that could be cracked

The wind...
The wind...

"I'll pin it on the devil
I'll be exempt from blame
I'll pin it on a million things but the facts remain the same
I'll creep under the covers
I'll sure be swept away
I'll sure be swept away
I'll sure be swept away."

I'll sure be swept away.
I'll sure be swept away.
I'll sure be swept away.

Thanks to the amazing gig at the Donaukanal, I have written a new song today.  Here it is!!

Guess I'm at a crossroads
Guessing I'm the one to choose
Guessing out of those roads
There's a hundred ways to lose
Guessing that if I stall
If I wait for fate to call
Guessing this is quicksand
Guessing I'm about to fall

A hundred is a thousand
Is a million ways to die
A million is an army
Is an airforce in the sky
A sky is but a ceiling
Whether glass or styrofoam
Materials are useless
Materials are all I've got again

Nothing ever makes us change
So we carry on the same
Nothing but an ounce of pain
Forces hands, forces arms
If we never rearrange
Water floods and water drowns
Putting out fires
Putting out fires


Lately I'm reserving
Every place that I can find
Lately I been gathering
Claiming everything is mine
But choice is not an object
Not an altar nor a shrine
So tell me when I'm praying
Who am I to feel divine


Nothing ever makes us change
So we carry on the same
Nothing but an ounce of pain
Forces hands, forces arms
If we never rearrange
Water floods and water drowns
Putting out fires
Putting out fires

Yep yep, as a favour to a friend, I am playing on the donaukanal tonight people!  (Saturday 6th JOOON!)

I think it's free!  here's the details...

At 8:30pm tonight:
Go to Schottenring station
walk down to the kanal
past flex
keep walking till you see a stage, opposite the "tel aviv beach" or whatever


woooooooo!
see you there!
toph

My dear, dear readers..

I have had a feeling, for quite a while now, that all that was exciting about the internet has somehow been killed.. be it through an over-abundance of self-serving-html-coding-ad-bot bands on myspace, by the sheer weight of choice of what to listen to, or, indeed (and this is my main diagnosis), by the spread of Facebook.

I myself for a long time was a Facebook hater.  I found it a shallow way to "connect" with my real-life friends, yet far too intrusive and personal for my fan-friends or acquaintances.  It's funny how the world changes so quickly nowadays, it's actually, ridiculously, leading us back to our original form - the Band Website.  Facebook isn't customisable at all for bands, so that's a no-no, at least maybe it's useful just for LINKING to the band website.  Twitter is, for obvious reasons, the same - excellent for linking, but in itself, rubbish for creating something interesting.  Myspace had been the only site that combined an excellent creative platform with an outstanding networking platform.  It is, however, no longer the latter.  Facebook has become (by far) the best platform for information-spreading, and indeed, friend recommendation.  What is a shame is that it has no real link to art, music, film, culture - at least, not a DIRECT link, whereby it becomes PART of the virtual world we inhabit.

So, what we have now is what we started with, people - websites which link PEOPLE to eachother, but puts the spreading of art back into the hands of those people.  There is good to come of this; no more annoying band add requests (which now make up 90% of my requests, and which get turned down), no more html flyering, and even better, no fake-gratitude by bands who couldn't give a damn about the listener, just as long as there is an extra number on their friends count.  It's back to basics, people.  Be good, give away stuff, spread your art through creating your art to the best of your ability.  I, for one, am petrified by what's going to happen next, but at least it gives me a reason to start again.  It's time to dissect, destroy and put back.  I, for one, can't fucking wait.

toph.

Split Yourself Lilith (Tokyotron Remix) from Toph Taylor on Vimeo.

Phowar @ remixing..  love it!

Here's my new page just for my remixes:

www.myspace.com/tokyotron


woooooop!
toph

innit!

http://twitter.com/TophTaylor

woooooo the internet will suck all of our lives dry!!  Hooray!

toph

Dear Reader,

Well, I have been a misery guts of late.  Six months of lack of direction, no traveling, and just general depression.  All this collided to make a spectactular implosion a few days ago - finally!  I've waited almost a year to cry, and I, dear reader, am a weeper, it's true.

BUT!

ALAS!

IT HAPPENED!!

And the sun came out in Vienna!!

I would like to thank everyone who's supported me even through my weirdness - and rest assured, I am back with a colossal bang.  Suddenly, all seems possible, and ideas are starting to come back - for fun!!  There are a hundred thing I want to try out, and it all starts here.

Let's light that fuse.

toph.

on the road to recovery :)

yaaaaaaaaaaay :)

Hey all...
Well, here's the thing... I....erm... think I may have written all the songs which will be on album 3.....

I am so ridiculously excited, and bewildered, because up to 2 weeks ago, I had no idea what it would be, and felt about a year away from finishing...

And now, the status is, that I've finished the album up to the point where it is the same quality as Pyramides. But that doesn't mean I'm finished. Because this time I'm gonna really really concentrate on making it the most amazing album ever. So that means, lots of re-records, lots of patience, and lots of swirly-ness.

So.

If anyone needs me, I'll be making the most amazing album ever made.

k thanks
toph!