Anaconda E.P. - Beat Doctor

22 February 2010

 Anaconda by Beat Doctor (original mix)
Bassline House

Other track downloads and details about this release

02 March 2010JMD remix on new Manifest Northwest release

JMD remixes sea.envy track Contaminate on the latest E.P. from sea.envy's own netlabel Manifest Northwest recordings. As usual, JMD exhibits his usual hard, melodic trance style, and the rest of the release also featuring Deformaty and Chris Firenze is one for all hard dance fans with some pounding techno rhythms and minimal acidic riffs. You can download it here ...

22 February 2010New bassline house release

Beat Doctor returns with the Anaconda E.P. released today, featuring three new bassline house tracks. Anaconda combines a drum and bass style warped bassline with electro house beats, sinister textures and screaming effects. Big Fat Star features another large, fat bassline, this time adding filtered, stuttering vocal samples along with pumping house rhythms. Itchy And Scratchy keeps the bassline house vibe but has a more minimal feel, with dirty glitch effects and old skool sliding hoover samples. All tracks are free to download under a Creative Commons licence in full length, DJ friendly mp3 format from the release page.

19 February 2010Pattaya Sun Rise now freely available

Risey's 2007 trance track Pattaya Sun Rise is now available to download free of charge from Toucan. The track, which has been available to download in our Premium releases collection since release, has today been moved to our Current releases making it freely available to use under a Creative Commons licence. Further information and a download link is available here.

19 February 2010Creative Commons music wiki launched

Looking for more Creative Commons licenced music? Then look no further than the new Creative Commons Music wiki launched by Barry of BDW Rekordings. The wiki is designed to list music by label, artist and feature a list of new releases. If you're a label or artist, why not help add to the wiki and spread the word?

22 January 20102010 Remixes of Redmann

New today are two brand new, full length remixes of Redmann tracks, fresh for 2010. First up, Beat Doctor reworks the Psychadelik Pedestrian version of Redmann's March 2005 track You Make Me in a contemporary electro house / progressive trance crossover style, taking the vocal and melody and adding bouncy house rhythms and hypnotic synths. The second remix is by Psychadelik Pedestrian who takes the orchestral elements of Peace, the lead track from Redmann's 2009 Three In One E.P., and pitches everthing up a notch adding frenetic breakbeats and deep, pulsating bass. More details and download links are available on the current releases page.

1 January 20102009 Download Chart revealed

Happy new year, and decade! The downloads have been counted and verified and we can reveal that in 2009, we had a massive 107,449 downloads! This time around, we've broken with tradition and released a Top 20 Download Chart rather than the usual Top 10, and due to the large proportion of downloads in comparison with previews, we are no longer compiling the previews and percentages charts which would be fairly meaningless.

Topping the list this year is surprisingly Prismattack, reflecting the continued popularity of our hardcore releases on the site, with another hardcore release and 2008's top track Feel The Power at number 3. Fioko's Baby Crying is the top track out of those released in 2009, at number 7. The full chart is available here .

31 December 20092009 mix released

The end of year mix review from Toucan is now available, featuring 82 minutes of our best tracks from 2009 seamlessly blended together in a full length DJ mix album. The mix features artists including Redmann, Risey, Beat Doctor, sea.envy, Fioko, Yakoozai, JMD and more, and takes you on a journey through a variety of styles including electro, progressive house, breakbeat and melodic trance. A full tracklist and download link is available on the year mixes page.

28 December 2009Two new releases

Not one, but two new releases for you to enjoy today! First up is John Carr's remix of Yakoozai's Self Inflicted, which takes the main melody hook and expertly blends it with contemporary electro house beats and subtle, warm trance synths. Next is Solidarity from Psychadelik Pedestrian, an instrumental electronica track, the original starting with ambient synth pads and piano, and building with deep, acid bass arpeggios and a combination of contemporary electro beats and cut-up old skool breaks. The club-friendly Marc Burt mix reworks the synth pads and arpeggios around deep house rhythms. As usual from Toucan Music, both releases feature full length, high quality MP3 tracks.

27 December 2009New look website launched!

Welcome to the new look Toucan website, the first redesign in almost three years. The website has gone live today to celebrate ten years since our first full-length MP3 track, Psychadelik Pedestrian 's Another Boring Lunchtime... was made available on 27th December 1999. The structure of the site remains the same as always, with the menu buttons taking you to profiles about our artists, a full catalogue of our releases, details of our podcasts and feature length albums and mixes. Gone are the low-bitrate previews and instead look out for the new player which features full length, high quality streaming of our releases. The player is currently only available for the last ten releases, but will shortly be rolled out to all releases in our current series, dating back to March 2005. Finally, regular visitors will notice that the search features have been improved and the contact page is now working again after some problems with the image verification on the old website.

Look out for two new releases going live later this week as we move into the new year.

11 December 2009New two track JMD trance release

In our new release today, JMD presents two full length trance tracks. 'Jet Stream' features euphoric chord melodies and riffs, combined with lush pads, throbbing bassline and pumping house beats. 'Starscape' is a classic trance influenced track, including an uplifting trance synth riff, bouncy beats and a large pad breakdown in the middle. As usual, both tracks are free to download from our release page and re-use under a Creative Commons licence, making them ideal to include in your DJ mixes! Cover image by evoo73 on Flickr used under a Creative Commons licence: http://www.flickr.com/photos/evoo73/2484299442/.

20 November 2009Redmann returns with new E.P.

Redmann presents a trio of religious-themed tracks in this E.P. release new today, all influenced by old hymn tunes. First up is 'Peace', an instrumental downtempo / chillout track with large trip-hop beats, a moving piano riff and orchestral strings. 'Let There Be' combines house beats and throbbing sidechained bass with arpeggio synths. 'Friend' retains the uptempo, house sound and adds more of an electro feel. All three tracks are free to download in full high quality MP3 format.

7 November 2009New Remixes

Our latest release out today features three remixes of Marc Burt tracks. First up Marc remixes his own track "Last Flight Home", keeping the haunting progressive trance style of the original while introducing more lush pads and bouncing synth patterns. Psychadelik Pedestrian remixes "Pioneers" in a breaks style with rolling breakbeats and a slightly darker bassline while keeping the acid riffs and effects. Finally, "Exodus" is given the Beat Doctor treatment, with electro house beats and stuttering old-skool rave style arpeggios. All tracks are full length, free downloads in high quality mp3 format. Release photo by extranoise on Flickr and appears under a Creative Commons licence.

20 October 2009New Trance Release

Our new release today celebrates the tenth anniversary of two classic trance tracks from Hyperterminal. First produced in March 1999, "Thirty One" was the debut Hyperterminal track and defined the trademark synth driven Hyperterminal sound. It was "Seeking You", produced in September 1999 and released online in December, that slowly brought Hyperterminal recognition and led to a record deal. Ten years on, and the tracks have been remade in a contemporary, upfront tech-trance style with thumping rhythms, bouncy tech bass and soaring trance synths and arpeggios. Both tracks as usual are full length and completely free to download under a Creative Commons licence. Release photo appears courtesy of Misteraitch on Flickr and is used under a Creative Commons licence.

27 September 2009sea.envy Podcast Available

Out now is our latest podcast special mix. This time around sea.envy brings us an exclusive mix featuring some of his personal favourite Toucan tracks. If you like your music seamlessly blended - and as loud as possible - download the mix on our podcasts page .

Length: 33min
BPM: 135
File Under: Party!

Tracklist
01 Psychadelik Pedestrian - One Five Eight (Edit)
02 Redmann - Sound Off (Psychadelik Pedestrian Remix)
03 JVS - Bassquake (Remake)
04 Beat Doctor - Lost The Plot
05 Kent v. PP - Monkeys Ate My Fish Tank (Psychadelik Pedestrian Remix)
06 Online Funkstream - Bass Tribe (2006 Remix)
07 Space Invaderz - Bass Line

25 September 2009Davis Fontanes and Risey - Closer - out today!

Up today we've got two special treats lined up! First up, our very own DJ Risey has joined forces with US vocalist Davis Fontanes for "Closer", an anthemic trance track which is planned to feature on the forthcoming Davis Fontanes album. For a limited time only, the track will be available to buy as one of our premium releases. Here are the links:
Closer - Slam2TheFloor mix
Closer - JMD club mix

16 September 2009Electro house release

Beat Doctor presents two contemporary electro house tracks on this release out today. "Alright" is a bouncy house track with rippling, stuttering arpeggios and sizzling, reverberating bass as well as a catchy vocal sample. "Twisted Orchestra" is a stompy house tune with a catchy, sidechained orchestral sample and old skool organ sounds. Both tracks are full length and free to download and reuse under a Creative Commons licence. More information and download links here. Cover design is a cropped version of an image by Mark Cummins and appears under a Creative Commons Share Alike licence, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/artimagesmarkcummins/2121216094/