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David Toop is a musician, author, professor and chair of Audio Culture and Improvisation at London College of Communication. A regular contributor to British avant-garde music magazine _The Wire_, he’s regarded as one of the UK’s foremost music academics and journalists. He has published several books, including _Ocean of Sound_, a poetic exploration of contemporary music from Débussy to ambient techno, and _Rap Attack_, his pioneering 1984 work on hip-hop. His debut album, _New and Rediscovered Musical Instruments_, was released on Brian Eno’s Obscure label in 1975, and he’s since put out over a dozen solo and collaborative albums, from engrossing found-music projects, like 2016’s _Entities Inertias Faint Beings_, and snarling rock & roll, like 2017’s _Dirty Songs_. His 1980 album _Hekura_, a recording of Yanomami shamanic rituals in South Venezuela, was heavily sampled by Björk for her 2017 release, _Utopia_.
