I got a bunch of free records off my friend Aphasic about two years ago, all of which were great and some of which ended up getting played on RSI Radio volume 2. A couple of them were so mental they had to be played towards the end.
Of those, Toe Cutter was arguably the maddest. From the “drinking lots beer and fucking shit up” end of breakcore (rather than the ultra-left avant garde one), Toe Cutter mashes up house music, blasts of digital distortion, pissed off people from the TV and anything else which is to hand. It’s not pretending to be clever or innovative or even “good”, which is why maybe it always brings a smile to my face.
Where are you from, anyway?
Sydney.
“Toecutter” is slang, right? I can’t figure out what it means, though?
It has many resonances in Australian culture, in the 1920’s and 30’s there were gangs in Sydney called razor gangs (they used straight razors as weapons) and there was one called the Toecutters. From there, a Toecutter came to mean a criminal who steals (by standover tactics / violence) from other criminals; eg. a crew robs a bank, the Toecutter hears about it, finds the gang before the cops and cuts off their toes until they give up the cash. Then in the late 1970’s, George Miller wrote and directed Mad Max, and the leader of the outlaw motorcycle gang was called Toecutter.
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