In this way, Osborne the album shares a similar structure to the Soylent Green Forza del Destino collection released on Playhouse in 2006. Several of the best tracks here, such as ‘Afrika’, ‘Ruling’, ‘Outta Sight’ and ‘Downtown’ have all appeared on Osborne’s previous EPs for Spectral. You could say then that this collection of tracks is but one of a number hobbies that Todd pursues to the nth degree, a level of intensity he appears to share with fellow Spectral DJ Ryan “Marathon Man/Spreadsheet Set Plan” Elliott.īut this is a collection: those of you expecting an “album” of unheard originals will be disappointed, as I was initially. Remember when you’d always say to your friends, “Wouldn’t it be cool to build a half pipe?” Well, Todd would have been the kid who actually did. All of what Osborne does appears to be about acting out all these childhood fantasies. Spectral’s press sheet explains his music as “testimony to a life walking the walk” (as opposed to someone like me, who’s dedicated to the blah blah).
Thanks to Dad, I had completely destroyed the backyard by New Years Day with my proxy joy ride.īut had I been a young Todd Osborn, I imagine I would have had no such problems: this is an adult who not only collects Lego and owns a hovercraft, but also constructs music put together using computers (not just software) he builds himself. Enter my dad, the doer, who stayed up all of Christmas Day night gluing and soldering.
Initially, I was over the moon, but my excitement quickly distorted into distress when, upon opening said box, I realised I had neither the know-how nor the inclination to put the darned thing together. That Christmas, Santa brought me a Tamiya Fox (in a box), which, at that time, was the fastest of their 2WDs. When I was seven or eight years old I was really into remote control cars.
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