2010 Remixes : Part 4 - Phish Funk

20 July 2010

 Aquarius by Phish Funk (JMD remix)
Trance

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20 July 2010Trance remixes

The fourth volume of 2010 remixes from Toucan Music, released today, includes two remixes of Phish Funk tracks in a trance style. First up, JMD reworks Aquarius in an upbeat, bouncy trance style, keeping the haunting female vocals and adding luscious reverb, soaring arpeggios and a driving bassline. The second remix is by Marc Burt, whose progressive trance version of Beautiful Geometry adds funky warping synth bass, warm synth pads and a catchy lead riff.

28 June 2010More 2010 remixes

In the third volume of 2010 remixes from Toucan Music, out today, two Psychadelik Pedestrian tracks are reworked by Beat Doctor. First up is Psychadelik Pedestrian's 2009 track, World Of Fantasy, which is remixed in a slightly minimal old skool deep house style with retro synth basslines, stabs and pads. The B-side is 1998 track Eternal Truth, which is moulded into an upbeat bouncy house track, retaining the classical piano and strings, and adding sidechained pads, a thumping kick and sizzling contemporary synths. Both are available in DJ friendly, full length, high quality mp3 audio format. Download them now from the release page.

14 June 2010Toucan Music on Jamendo

Our latest release, Marc Burt's Twenty Ten , is now available on Jamendo.

25 May 2010New trance release from Marc Burt

Marc Burt presents two new full length tracks in this release out today. Twenty Ten is a pumping melodic trance track with a driving kick drum, sizzling trance beats and warm, uplifting pads. 36 Miles is a building, progressive trance track with rippling arpeggiated chords and a catchy lead hook. Both tunes are available to download free of charge under a Creative Commons licence in DJ friendly MP3 audio format from the releases page.

17 May 2010New dance music podcast

In our latest feature length podcast, available today, Andrew "Redmann" Amery introduces a half hour mix of some of his favourite Toucan house and trance tracks from the last two years, featuring artists including JMD, Fioko, Beat Doctor, sea.envy and Redmann himself. Check out the mix and download the tracks from our Podcast section.

07 May 2010Articles return!

By popular demand, we're bringing back the series of articles on the history of dance music that were originally on Toucan Music until December 2009. Here's the history of chillout music ...

25 April 2010Sample pack available

Attention all remixers: a sample pack for The Toucan's 2004 track Push It Down is now available on CCMixter under a Creative Commons licence, which includes various track parts including the full robotic vocal acapella. Look out for more sample packs coming soon! If you compile a remix, we'd love to hear from you.

12 April 2010New 2010 trance remixes from JMD

In the second volume of 2010 remixes, released today, JMD brings two of his favourite tracks bang up to date. The remix of On Target retains the catchy trance riffs of the original and adds bouncy club beats and a new bassline, while the new version of Airstrike introduces rippling chords and arpeggios to complement the track's lush pads and melodies. Both tracks are available in full, DJ friendly mp3 audio to download from the release page .

02 April 2010Sonic Squirrel

Toucan Music have joined Sonic Squirrel! Sonic Squirrel is a platform and distribution channel for netlabels, with a goal to promote free music and help artists and netlabels make their work easily available to a wider audience. Sonic Squirrel also aims to give background information on issues like copyleft/right, drm and netaudio. Check out our label page .

19 March 2010New hardcore release

A new bouncy uplifting hardcore single release today from Dreamworld, with sizzling synths, wobbling bass sounds and a catchy female vocal sample. The track is a full length, DJ friendly cut ideal for mixing into any uptempo hardcore set and is released as usual under Creative Commons licence. Download it now in mp3 audio format from the hardcore releases page.

16 March 2010Toucan on Discogs

Toucan is now on Discogs, the online music database. If you're a Discogs user, please help us get our catalogue online by adding any Toucan release you've downloaded to your collection!

12 March 2010Toucan joins Play.FM

Toucan Music have joined play.fm - check out our audio !

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 audio 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 for the mp3 audio files 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.