Recording on a faulty tape recorder, Troy collated 90 minutes of various experimental, industrial, noise material into a tape entitled "Insinkerator". Through a chance meeting at Pipe Records in Melbourne, Troy met Ollie Olsen (Whirlywirld, Orchestra of Skin & Bone / NO), who encouraged him to meet John Murphy (The Man of a 1000 bands including; Krang, SPK, Nurse With Wound, Lustmord, Current 93, Slub, Death In June, Scorpion Wind, Shining Vril). John listened and liked the tape and encouraged Troy to play live and offered his regal collaborative services.

Troy and John began performing live together under the Sooterkin Flesh moniker, with Jak Perception (Kids On Death) on noise guitar, for the inaugural performance at The Builder's Arms Hotel in Fitzroy, March 13 1988. Over the next 10 years, John and Troy continued to play live sporadically, while both were involved in various other bands and projects. None of which, were truly like the Sooterkin aesthetic.

Sooterkin Flesh - a conceptual improvisational substratum, that made each performance, stand in it's own right, as a direct and relative combination of assembled equipment and found objects, and personnel and their current emotional states, to dictate the themes, pace and structure of the performance.

Gordon Fukushima (samplers & keyboards) joined the duo after a few months, which opened the door to a continuum of various musicians from differing backgrounds to be a part of the improvisational live performance. Adding a wider range of instrumentation and idiosyncracies, building gargantuan walls of sound and occasionally beating away with and upon any found metal object, covering the stage area and beyond. This boundless concept, created an uncertain and chaotic diorama, that seemingly shape-shifted betwixt a gargantuan wall of violent cacophony, and a magickal, aethereal ambient landscape of repeating layers of velvetine textures and frequencies.

With slovenly momentum, more willing participants joined the fray; the next mainstay Mark O'Connors (L.U.M.P.) utilising samplers, tapes, percussion and zithers, Jason Van Den Boogert (God,Guns & Guts, Cancrum Oris) dualling guitars, synth manipulation, hammer percussion, Jason Vassalo (Christbait) rhythm and spoken word sampling. On occasion performances were dedicated to found-objects found-on-that-day improvised percussion, involving such luminaries as Spike Kiernan (Bastard Squad, Scourge, Womnal) and Carl Thomas (Steak Kave, Understanding Sexual Addiction). A hard-rubbish collection of sheets of rusted metal, pipes of all sizes, corrugated iron, empty beer kegs from the cellar and a big empty water tank. Utilized with the aid of metal bars, drills and ritualistic rhythm-breaking.

On a rare occasion, (Oct 2 - 1993) at the GB Hotel in Richmond, Sooterkin Flesh headlined a night dedicated to industrial musick and performed an improv-cacophosymphony that involved all of the above and more, featuring Michael Sheridan (No, The Dumb & The Ugly, Peril) guitar treatments, David Brown (The Dumb & The Ugly, Lazy, Crowded Foxhole) tape manipulation, Jake Curtis (Where's The Pope) percussion, Matt 'Skitz' Sanders (Damaged, Manticore) percussion, Anthony 'Matt Bastard' Matters (Bastard Squad, Womnal, The Rumjacks, Drumjacker) percussion and Laura Swanson on viola.

In 1989, Troy and John teamed up with Ollie Olsen to perform under the moniker 'Transworld Death Corporation', for a one-off gig supporting Henry Rollins doing a spoken word show at Id's in Melbourne. Sooterkin Flesh played with many experimental and industrial bands in the late 80's/early 90's, including Defenestration, Nothing, Practical Folk Music, Gum, Lifedrill, Toll, Tabata & KK Null (from Zeni Geva), Slub, Burr, Hyacinthrash, Box The Jesuit, Womnal, Bladdergun, The Dumb & The Ugly, Stress, Throat, Kids on Deth, Barker's Eggs, Crash Test Dummies, Black Sun, The Crying Room, Lung UPC, Ecclesiastical Scaffolding, Crowded Foxhole, Michael Sheridan and The Zorros. The last Sooterkin Flesh gig of that era was in October 1997, featuring Troy and John, supporting KK Null, having supported him on his previous tour, at the Evelyn Hotel in Fitzroy.

In the mid 90's, Sooterkin Flesh went into the studio proper and recorded some 20+ hours of material. Featuring Troy, John Murphy, Mark O'Connors, Gordon Fukushima, Carl Thomas and Scott Baylis. Material that is yet to be released. Amongst the accumulated cacophonic cavalcade of material, Troy has begun releasing these aural purges through digital download, beginning with "Gogmagog" in 2009. "The Thread of My Master's Weave" was released in November 2010 on the TVK netlabel. Part One of the "Fistmaster" trilogy. A project that began in 1988 and is only now seeing the light of day. A track titled "Siphoning Expectorant" was released June 2011, on the TVK Compilation album; "First...You Plant The Seed". A track titled "A Prayer for the Loathing Self" was released December 2012, on a iFar Musique Concrete 4.33 "Vox" compilation. A track composed of entirely voice sounds and manipulations. A track titled "Oppression 47" was released June 2013, on a iFar Musique Concrete 4.33 "Begin Anywhere" compilation. A track composed of 64 randomly chosen soundbytes, assembled by sight without any audio manipulation.

After 16 long years, Troy and various Sooterkin personnel have FINALLY begun performing live again, beginning with an April 9 performance of sheer brutal apocalyptic strident noise at The Make It Up Club in Fitzroy to celebrate 25 years since live conception. Another performance in July and an appearance in the Noise Flash experience conceived by Todd Anderson-Kunert followed with many more connotations to follow.

All throughout the years, Sooterkin Flesh has recorded in various bedrooms, garages and kitchens on a 4 track and very limited handmade cassette and tape loops were sporadically released through Coccyx Tapes. Various compilations of which shall be forged and released in the near future. A number of the live performances were also recorded on a tape player/recorder, walkman, mini-tape recorder and/or a 4 track. "Nightmare on Laurens Street" a compilation cassette released in 1988, features Troy and John performing at the Laurens Street Experimental Music Benefit June 18, 1988. A compilation of these tracks and many other live performances spanning the years from 1988 to 2014 entitled "Benefactotum" shall be released in 2015, followed by Part Two of the Fistmaster Trilogy; "The Passage of My Master's Fist". Also a split with Elizabeth Veldon, a re-working / reconstruction of the ongoing "Gog" series and a re-release of the "Insinkerator" demo tape shall eventually follow.

Troy is always open to trading tapes, collaborative projects, compilation work, a brave experimental record label and anyone willing to contribute to the continual cacophony of the Sooterkin soundscape!

In the words of Gordon Fukushima, (wherever you are) ; LONG LIVE THE SOOTERKIN! LONG LIVE THE NEW FLESH!