# David_Toop_-_Ocean_of_Sound **Abstract:** ion.' Tony Herrington ,'At the end of the millennium, we can see two ttends in music, one proactive, the other reactivi: ... Toop's 0cet.In qfSound brilliantly, elaborates both these Processes, like sonic fact for oursd-fi present, a Martian Chronicle from this Planet Earth.' The FaCe 'This Eoc:yclopaedia of Heavenly Music is an heroic endeavour brou8ht off with elegance and ~. The play of ideas is downright , musical and, vitally, the author writes like a mad enthusiast rather than a snob.' NME ~AIways the rigorous pluralist, [ToopJ sees no reason not to expect wisdoms &om rival cultures, tribal or club, nor em.ptinessor stuPidity , either. His sense of ~e absurd, of potential darkness and Madness, is Ii bullshit detector never turned off.' ,NeW StafeSman &: Sodety '..J Also by Dmd Toop and pubHshed by Serp;mt's Tail Exottc(,l: Fabricated Soundscapes tn· a Real World Rap Attack #3 . ,