mp3: TOLCHA blckrcrd (feat. maxx & noelle poeller) (yousendit)
also available to download at murdochspace/tolchas
after loving a preview mp3 on the excellent ready rock moe rex a couple of months back, and then promptly forgetting all about it – my memory was jogged this week when the debut album from tolcha landed on the fat planet desk. released through band member’s shir khan‘s label ‘meta polyp‘, the album features a list of the credits that almost reads like a ‘who’s who’ of a group of artists i’ve been digging from berlin and austria’s klein label. guesting on the electro, dub and hip hop excursion are sasha from jahcoozi, stereotyp collaborator al haca, nyc’s rqm plus rider shafique from pressure drop and former rockers hifi member, ras t-weed.
tolcha cite ‘digi-soul’ and ‘crunchy future tech hip hop’ as reference points – how i love a good made-up genre. their debut 12, released back in 2003, looks like it’s a collector’s gem, featuring a remix from ms john soda as well as a mix from le hammand inferno which apparently drops the ‘seven nation army’ bassline as an accompaniment to the tolcha mc crew.
for further investigation, www.tolcha.de is a smart little site with a “boombox” of tracks, studio videos and the opportunity to stream everything they’ve released thus far.