Toucan Music - house, trance, chill, breakbeat, hardcore

Sinking To The Ocean - Fioko (tou259)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 18 June 2009 21:00:00 GMT

New today is our first release from a brand new artist, Fioko. Fioko has already released music in different styles with a variety of labels, and has joined with Toucan Music to release his latest E.P., "Ray Of Sunset". The E.P. contains six tracks in a trance and electro house style, all unmixed as usual in high quality MP3 format. The track featured here is "Sinking To The Ocean", a laid back, melodic electro trance cut. You can find out more about Fioko on his website http://fioko.ru.

Cry Over You - Psychadelik Pedestrian (tou258)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 28 May 2009 21:00:00 GMT

Two old skool / rave breaks tracks feature in today's new release from Psychadelik Pedestrian. "Cry Over You" is an uplifting breaks anthem with a haunting melody, deep warping bassline, rippling analogue synths and arpeggios, a catchy piano hook and crisp, upfront breakbeats. "World Of Fantasy" is a darker, techno-influenced track with rolling beats, sizzling bass and old-skool stab sounds. Both tracks are full, DJ friendly cuts with extended intro and outro for mixing, in high quality 192kbps MP3 format. Download them both in full length, DJ friendly high quality mp3 format from the Toucan Music website at http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk.

Dawn Of Time - sea.envy (JMD remix) (tou257)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 13 Apr 2009 21:02:00 GMT

sea.envy, a.k.a. Clayton Brooks, is better known for his netlabel mixes but here he has joined Toucan Music to release two of his own dancefloor-filling trance tracks. "Dawn Of Time" is a melodic, uplifting trance track with an infectious tune which JMD has remixed in his trademark hard trance style. The original mix, and two mixes of "Excerpt From The Rift" are also available in full length, DJ friendly high quality mp3 format from the Toucan Music website at http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk.

Beast - Beat Doctor (original mix feat. Dave Kent) (tou256)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 13 Apr 2009 21:02:00 GMT

Beat Doctor explores several styles in this three track E.P. release. "Beast" is an acid driven house track with a huge squelchy TB-303 style riff (featured here). "Crazy Gamer" is a dark, progressive electro house track with bleeping effects and a hard, dark distorted bass. Completing the trio is "Far Too Retro", a rework of the 2008 track "Too Retro" featuring old skool rave sounds and breakbeats with a modern, electro house twist. All three tracks are available in DJ friendly, full length mixes ready to download in MP3 format.

Tribal Echo - Risey (JMD remake) (tou255)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 12 Mar 2009 20:46:00 GMT

Toucan Music presents bang up to date remixes of two classic DJ Rise dance tunes fresh for 2009. JMD remakes "Tribal Echo" (featured here) in an energetic, melodic trance style with soaring synths, bouncy kick drum and pumping rhythms. Beat Doctor remixes "House Trancefusion" in an electro house style, with stuttering beats, huge distorted kick drums, reverberating sidechained synths and effects (available now on the website). Both tracks are freely available to download in full, DJ friendly versions ideal for mixing.

Bassquake - JVS (tou254)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 29 Dec 2008 20:18:00 GMT

New today is a remake of "Bassquake" by JVS, combining house, grime and old skool speed garage sounds. Skippy, chopped house beats provide the rhythm to a huge, deep, throbbing bassline in this slice of dancefloor mayhem, with hoover sounds and sinister effects to keep the edgy feel and get your spine tingling. As always the track is free to download and is provided in a full, unmixed dj friendly cut - ideal for mixing into your set.

Toucan Music presents 2008

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 22 Dec 2008 19:00:00 GMT

The end of year mix review from Toucan is now available, featuring 79 minutes of our best tracks from 2008 seamlessly blended together in a full length DJ mix album. The mix features artists including Redmann, Risey, Beat Doctor, Phish Funk, Risey and more, and takes you on a journey through a variety of styles including electro, progressive, funky house, breakbeat and melodic trance.

Prismattack - Prism (thc013)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 18 Dec 2008 21:00:00 GMT

New today from Prism is a bouncy remake of the track "Prismattack". "Prismattack" is old skool bouncy hardcore techno with thumping beats, synth stabs and throbbing bass. JMD also provides an uplifting trance remix. Both versions are full, DJ friendly mixes suitable for mixing into a set. This is the JMD remix.

Lost The Plot - Beat Doctor (tou253)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 16 Oct 2008 21:12:00 GMT

Old skool rave meets electro house in this release from Beat Doctor. Electro beats and electro stabs, warped bass and slightly sinister textures resound in "Lost The Plot", while the remix of "On The Road" is a stomping bouncy house track with gritty synth riffs. Both tracks are in full DJ friendly mixes, suitable for mixing into any set.

Eternal Truth - Psychadelik Pedestrian (toulp1)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 27 Aug 2008 21:25:00 GMT

"Eternal Truth" is taken from Psychadelik Pedestrian's new self-titled compilation, bringing together some of the best Psychadelik Pedestrian tracks from 1996 to date featuring a combination of chillout, drum and bass, lounge and downtempo music. Focussing on the classic, old skool Pedestrian sound, the album features tracks such as "Another Boring Lunchtime", an older mix of which was the first Toucan track to go online in 1999; "Night Beach", which was featured on its release in 2002 by Vitaminic's Nokia phone promotion site and "One Five Eight", remixed in 2005 by Dave Seagrim. New remakes of "Eternal Truth", "Liquid Nitrogen" and "Against The Grain" are included, and all of the other tracks are remastered exclusively for the album and feature in their full length mixes.

Turbulence - Marc Burt (tou251)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 15 Jul 2008 21:00:00 GMT

Marc Burt's uplifting, slightly chilled trance track gets a makeover, with a brand new harder, tech-trance mix from JMD as well as remastered versions of the original piano trance mix and Psychadelik Pedestrian's haunting, downtempo chillout mix. As always from Toucan Music, all mixes are DJ friendly, full length versions in high quality mp3 format.

Beautiful Geometry - Phish Funk (tou250)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 23 Jun 2008 21:50:00 GMT

"Beautiful Geometry" is pure melodic, funky house with building riffs, groovy bass and pumping club beats, as well as lush synth pads adding a chilled, mellow feel.

Interference - JMD and Kube (tou249)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 22 May 2008 21:15:00 GMT

JMD and Kube join forces to present a bangin' hard dance track "Interference", featuring four to the floor club beats, throbbing bass, sweeping synths and bleeping sounds and effects.

Pioneers - Marc Burt (tou248)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 08 May 2008 20:55:00 GMT

Marc Burt presents two progressive house tracks with trance and techno influences. "Pioneers" (featured here) features rolling, acidic synths and bass complete with a catchy, unusual vocal sample. "Five Senses" (downloadable from www.toucanmusic.co.uk) is a slightly mellow track with old skool bell stab sounds, laid back house beats and a deep bass groove. Both tracks are full DJ friendly mixes complete with introduction for mixing and are in mp3 format.

Too Retro - Beat Doctor (tou247)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 14 Apr 2008 22:25:00 GMT

Beat Doctor returns this week with a new house release including two full tracks. "Too Retro" (featured here) features 80s influenced rhythms combined with a house kick, thumping bass and electro house synths, adding old skool rave stabs and effects. "The Piano Tune" features a simple yet irritatingly catchy piano riff, pumping house beats and a driving, gritty synth line. Both tracks are in full DJ friendly format and are free to download in mp3 format from Toucan Music at http://www.toucanmusic.co.uk.

Tonight - Redmann (tou246)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 25 Mar 2008 21:50:00 GMT

New today from Redmann is "Tonight", here is the Beat Doctor electro house mix with warped basslines, squelchy electro synths and lush female vocal. Two other mixes are also available, all are full length and DJ friendly with extended introduction and ending, suitable for mixing into any set. Download all the mixes now from http://www.toucanmusic.com.

Toucan Pocast Special #7

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 14 Mar 2008 20:10:00 GMT

John picks some more of the latest Toucan tracks, including some new and unreleased material. Fully mixed with introductory speech.

Polar - JMD (tou245)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 20 Feb 2008 22:10:00 GMT

More uplifting trance from JMD. More uplifting, melodic trance from JMD. "Polar" starts with driving tech-trance club beats and stuttering bass, then breaks down into a warm, mellow pad section before kicking in with an anthemic trance synth riff building up throughout the remainder of the track. Download the full bonus track "Subfusion" and a Psychadelik Pedestrian remix of Polar free at http://www.toucanmusic.com.

Feel The Power - Dreamworld (thc012)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 15 Feb 2008 21:40:00 GMT

Dreamworld return with trance influenced UK hardcore anthem "Feel The Power", combining warm, melodic arpeggio synth riffs and fills with thumping hardcore beats and bass. The track features a building intro followed by a breakbeat trance break in the middle, gradually increasing the energy until the main riff kicks in.

Dipsomania - Excelsior [DJ Kube 2008 remix] (thc011)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 15 Feb 2008 21:40:00 GMT

DJ Kube remixes Excelsior's hardcore track with bouncy beats and plenty of melodic synth action.

Toucan Music presents 2007

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 21 Dec 2007 22:50:00 GMT

Journey from electro house, breaks and old skool to trance with this extended 82 minute DJ mix compilation of the best Toucan tracks of the year, seamlessly blended by John Dalling using Ableton Live 6.

Aquarius - Phish Funk [Psychadelik Pedestrian remix] (tou244)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 28 Dec 2007 22:50:00 GMT

Psychadelik Pedestrian's remix of "Aquarius" combines the funky bassline of the original with slammin' breaks, uplifting synth pads and trance style arpeggio riffs.

Toucan Pocast Special #6

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 28 Dec 2007 22:50:00 GMT

Andrew Amery, aka Redmann, looks back at ten years of online music from Toucan, picking one track from each year from 2007 back to 1997. Partially mixed / faded with commentary speech throughout.

Move Harder - Redmann [Beat Doctor remix] (tou243)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 13 Dec 2007 21:30:00 GMT

Beat Doctor turns in a sizzling electro house remix of "Move Harder" complete with vibrant detuned synth bass, vocoder vocal samples and pumping four to the floor style beats.

Bad Man - Beat Doctor (tou242)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 02 Dec 2007 20:30:00 GMT

Beat Doctor delivers a foot thumping, dancefloor filling electro house track with vibrant, infectious basslines, acid fills and plenty of cut up synth action.

Body Move - Prism and Dave Kent (thc010)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 25 Nov 2007 22:20:00 GMT

Pumpin' UK hardcore with funky guitars and spaced vocals.

Your Smile - Prism [Beat Doctor remix] (thc009)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 24 Oct 2007 09:25:00 GMT

Get out your whistle - Beat Doctor's done an electro house remix of Prism's classic rave track!

Ethereal - Marc Burt (tou241)

podcast@toucanmusic.com (John Dalling) — 10 Nov 2007 20:20:00 GMT

Haunting melodic trance with pianos and lush synth pads.