Main Stage - Live at Notting Hill Carnival 2008

Toddla T

Ninja Tune, Sheffield

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. It's summer 2007. By day, shoe shop assistant, by night one half of digi duo Small Arms Fiya (along with fellow beat doctor/loafer Monkz), Toddla's brought the ruckus to the deadly Dancehall table with a series of killer 12"s and 7"s. Collaborations with Nu Soul vocalisers Ayah, Pete Simpson and Broke 'n' English, remixes for Jersey Street Allstars and Lo Tek Hi Fi (ft Roots Manuva) - they've all demolished dimly lit basement boogies and spread word - there's a new Marty Feldman on the bad boy block in love with heavy riddim. Via ingesting kegs of Dancehall, Digi-Ragga, chav Garage, Detroit, Broken Beat, Baltimore, Fidget and Hip Hop both behind the decks and before sound systems Toddla is now set to blaze his solo crop of wobbly electronics worldwide.