28 Dec 2007New Funky House Release

The final release of 2007 from Toucan is online today from Phish Funk. "Aquarius" is a vibrant, funky house track with pumping dancefloor beats, mellow pads and a dreamy female vocal line. A remix is also available from Psychadelik Pedestrian, adding fresh modern breaks, trancey synth lines and electronic effects. Both mixes are free to download in full, unmixed DJ friendly mp3 format on our current releases page.

As 2007 draws to a close, Andrew has compiled another one of our Podcast Specials, celebrating ten years of our website by picking one of his favourite tracks from each year going back from 2007 to 1997. Download the 'cast or view more info from our podcasts page.

21 Dec 2007End of Year Mix Online

It's that time of the year again, and the Toucan feature length review of the year is now online. Toucan Music presents 2007 features over 20 tracks from 2007 seamlessly blended together in an 82 minute mix, covering electro house, breaks, old skool and trance.

The mix can be downloaded free of charge, and is available here along with a complete tracklisting and links to download the individual tracks from the mix. Grab it now and dance into Christmas and the New Year!

13 Dec 2007House and Breaks Remixes

A new release today featuring brand new remixes of two classic Redmann tracks. Beat Doctor turns in a sizzling electro house remix of Redmann's 2001 track "Move Harder", complete with vibrant detuned synth bass, vocoder vocal samples and pumping four to the floor style beats. Psychadelik Pedestrian reworks one of Redmann's first tracks, "Sound Off" from 1997, into a UK breaks anthem with deep, resonating bass and acidic arpeggio riffs. Both tracks are available in full DJ friendly extended mixes, free of charge from the current releases page.

Look out for the Toucan end of year mix 2007, an 82 minute compilation of the best Toucan tracks of the year seamlessly blended together for your enjoyment, coming up next week!

02 Dec 2007New Electro House and Hardcore Releases

New today from Beat Doctor is "Bad Man", a foot thumping, dancefloor filling electro house track with vibrant, infectious basslines, acid fills and plenty of cut up synth action. The rave mix adds old skool rave stabs and varies the bassline to keep the crowd pumping. Both mixes are available in full, unmixed DJ friendly MP3 format from the current releases page - ideal for your set!

Also new this week is an unusual combination of styles from Prism and Dave Kent who have released two tracks as the "Hardcore Funk E.P.". "Body Move" and "Feel The Music" combine the traditional thumping hardcore beats and bass of Prism with Dave's funky guitars and funky house sounds. Download both tracks now from the hardcore releases page.

10 Nov 2007New Trance Release

The eagerly awaited "Ethereal" is now available from Marc Burt, first heard in one of our podcast mixes back in June, the full version of this haunting, melodic prog trance track is now online to download along with a bonus hard trance remix of "Exodus" by JMD.

Download both tracks for free in MP3 format now from the current releases page.

24 Oct 200710 Years Online!

Ten years ago today on 24th October 1997, the Frantik Music website first went online. The original website was a simple affair with a few pages of info about our artists and releases (then all on cassette tape!). WAV sound clips were added later in the year, these were changed to Real Audio in 1998 and finally in December 1999 our full tracks first went online in MP3 format. In 2004 the name of the site was changed from Frantik Music to Toucan Music... and the rest, as they say, is history!

To celebrate our birthday we've a new release online today. Prism's "Your Smile" was one of the biggest Frantik tracks of 1997 and even featured in our top downloads chart as recently as 2003. Now online is the tenth anniversary re-release of the track, which hasn't been online since 2005, complete with a brand new happy hardcore remix from Prism and an electro house remix from Beat Doctor. The original Blue Album mix and 1998 remix are also included in full, completely remastered. Download now from the hardcore releases page.

12 Oct 2007New Electro Breaks Release

Online today is a brand new release from Psychadelik Pedestrian "Hypnotise", featuring funky electro breaks with robotic effects, whispered vocals, trance synths and arpeggios. As well as the original mix, a bonus house mix is available from Beat Doctor to get the dancefloor pumping. Download both mixes in full MP3 format free from the current releases page.

07 Oct 2007Born Into It on Beta Sway

Redmann's "Born Into It" has been featured in the latest issue of Beta Sway - the online magazine for Urban Athletes. Click here to view the issue, and go to the "very exercising music" section to see the track!

27 Sep 2007New Chillout Track

New out from Redmann is "Born Into It", an atmospheric, trance influenced track with three free downloadable mixes. The chillout mix features sweeping pads and spaced out beats, the original version adds house beats and funky bass, and Psychadelik Pedestrian is on the remix with a melodic old skool and breakbeat workout. Download all mixes now from the current releases page.

31 Aug 2007New Trance From Risey

New today from Risey is "Pattaya Sun Rise". Going back to his trance roots, but keeping the Thai influences to follow up "Pattaya Boom Boom", "Pattaya Sun Rise" is a melodic trance stormer with a catchy riff, and thumping kick. Download now from the Premium Releases page.

17 Aug 2007New Trance Release

New today from JMD is "Hold My Breath", an uplifting melodic trance track with lush trance riffs and pumping club beats. A bonus remix of "Jumpin'" by Beat Doctor is also available for the release, keeping the original searing bass sounds and adding electro house beats and effects. Download both tracks in full DJ friendly MP3 format for free now from the current releases page.

03 Aug 2007Another Free Track

After last week's exclusive, this week is your chance to get your hands on Phish Funk's "Stargazing" free of charge at Beats Digital! The premium release track, normally charged at £1, appears free for the first time ever today as part of Beats Digital's free tracks promotion. Once again, this offer will only last a week, so get downloading while you can! Go to www.beatsdigital.com and click on the yellow Free Tracks tab for more info.

27 Jul 2007Exclusive Free Track

This week is your chance to get your hands on Marc Burt's "Last Flight Home" free of charge at Beats Digital! The premium release track, normally charged at £1, appears free for the first time ever today as part of Beats Digital's free tracks promotion. This offer will only last a week, so get downloading while you can! Go to www.beatsdigital.com and click on the yellow Free Tracks tab for more info.

26 Jul 2007New Release

New online today are Beat Doctor remixes of two classic Silverknight hard house tracks, "Dancefloor Virus" and "Back To The Nu Skool". "Dancefloor Virus" featured among the top 5 downloaded Toucan tracks two years running in 2002 and 2003, while "Back To The Nu Skool" featured in the top 5 download chart for the old MP3.com on its original release way back in 2000. Both remixes keep the old skool rave sounds of the originals, and add fresh house beats and bass to bring the tracks up to date. Download now from the current releases page.

13 Jul 2007Review

A nice review of Marc Burt's remix of Departure Lounge by Psychadelik Pedestrian appears here courtesy of the Black Sweater, White Cat blog.

09 Jul 2007Track Search

Now there's no need to wade through all the house to find our chillout tracks.. you can search for your favourite Toucan tunes by genre or by title with our new search feature! The search will pick up all of our current and premium releases (back to 2005), and older material is currently being added with the plan being to get all our archive tracks searchable by the end of July. Check it out to the right panel...

02 Jul 2007New Tracks Released

Two new releases are online today. First up, Psychadelik Pedestrian returns with a brand new chillout track, "Departure Lounge", featuring haunting pianos and spaced out beats. For those who like things a little bit faster, Marc Burt is on the remix and keeps the spaced out sounds adding uptempo house beats and synths. Both mixes are available now from the Current Releases page. Also, a new premium release is available today - "The Zipper" from Beat Doctor, a bouncy house track with old skool rave influences. Find out more from the Premium Releases page or get it now from Beats Digital.

8 Jun 2007New Podcast to Download

A new feature length mix is available to download today, the fifth in our podcast special series. This time, John mixes up just under 40 minutes of house and trance madness, including some new tracks, some as yet unreleased material, and some older tracks from the back catalogue. Download it now from the Podcasts page.

24 May 2007New Trance Track Online

JMD returns this week with a new trance track, "Frontline", with two mixes now available to download. The original mix is a thumping slice of uplifting trance, with searing synths and pumping club beats, while the Psychadelik Pedestrian remix keeps the synths and adds dirty, distorted breakbeats and deep digital bass. Download both mixes from the Current Releases page.

14 May 2007New Trance and House Remixes of Night Beach

Psychadelik Pedestrian's classic chillout tune gets the remix treatment in our latest free release. The original was featured by Vitaminic and Nokia's mobile music campaign and reached the top of the Vitaminic Downtempo / Chillout chart in 2002. Redmann and new guest remixer Seyzer Koze are on hand to bring the track bang up to date for 2007, with Redmann adding fresh house beats, funky bass and melodic synths and Seyzer Koze adding trance arpeggios and pads. Download all the mixes from the Current Releases page.

28 Apr 2007New Hardcore Release

Prism's 1997 track "Reaction One" gets the remix treatment in our latest hardcore release, out today. As well as a brand new mix from Prism himself, guest remixer Vibemaster B (a.k.a. Barry from BDWRekordings.com) makes his debut at Toucan with a pumping Scottish techno influenced mix. Included in the release are the original 1997 version and the 2002 remix, both fully remastered for the occasion. Download all the mixes from the Hardcore Releases page.

19 Apr 2007Pure Dance NRG Feature Reaction One Remix

Dance radio community Pure Dance NRG played the brand new Vibemaster B remix of Prism's 1997 hardcore tune "Reaction One" on Friday April 6th, and it was voted tune of the week in the reviews. The remix is due for release along with an exclusive new Prism version at the end of April - watch this space!

19 Apr 2007Centova Feature Psychadelik Pedestrian

Web technology company Centova have chosen Psychadelik Pedestrian tracks for the demo version of their web radio streaming software Centova Cast. The demo is freely available at http://castdemo.centova.com.

8 Apr 2007New House Release

Dave Kent's house tune "Pump It" gets a fresh remix for 2007 courtesy of Beat Doctor in our latest free release, with a brand new bonus track from Dave, "Stimulation", also included. To complete the package, Dave's original mix of "Pump It" from 2001 has been remastered and appears online for the first time since 2005. Download them now from the Current Releases page.

8 Apr 2007New Feature Length Podcast Special

Andrew Amery, a.k.a. Redmann, is back with another selection of his favourite Toucan tracks in our latest podcast special, the fourth in the series, which is now available. This time round, Andrew's picked out some of his favourite Psychadelik Pedestrian tracks, as well as selections from Dave Kent, JMD, The Toucan and more. Download the podcast now from our podcasts page.

8 Apr 2007Prism Remixes Vibemaster B

Prism has remixed Vibemaster B's track "Bounce Attack" in a UK hardcore style exclusively for BDW Rekordings. The remix was released last week and is now available to preview and download on the BDW Rekordings website. Vibemaster B has also remixed Prism's "Reaction One" which will be released shortly here at Toucan - watch this space for further details!

23 Mar 2007Toucan tracks at Beats Digital

Toucan's premium releases are now available to download at Beats Digital. Beats Digital is a new download site for dance music tunes and features house, trance, breakbeat and more. For those of you who prefer to get your music for free, why not try our current releases?

16 Feb 2007 Net-Label Review Feature Toucan

Net-Label Review have featured our latest release - Risey's old skool breakbeat house track "Memories Of Thailand". You can check out their article here. Nice one!

15 Feb 2007 Two New Releases!

Two new releases are available today for your enjoyment! First up, Risey (a.k.a. DJ Rise) returns with "Memories Of Thailand", a retro breakbeat style track, with a Beat Doctor nu skool house mix completing the release. Also new today is Redmann's new track "Search The Soul" which sees Andrew return to his funky downtempo electronic piano pop sound of "Embrace" and "Time On Your Hands". "Search The Soul" is remixed by Dave Kent who adds rockin' guitars to his trademark house funk style.

31 Jan 2007 Toucan Featured on Dance Music Radio

Toucan Music are now a featured label on Dance Music Radio. Billed as the UK's newest online music station, Dance Music Radio aims to bring dance music to you from DJs all around the world 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can check it out at www.dance-music-radio.co.uk.

26 Jan 2007 New UK Hardcore Release

Dreamworld remixes of two Redmann tracks, "Wonderland and "Are You Feeling It?" are available today. Taking the tunes from the original mixes, the Dreamworld versions speed them up to 170bpm and adds frenetic acid riffs, soaring synths and thumping UK hardcore beats. Both mixes are in DJ friendly format with intro and outro for beat mixing. Download them now in full from the hardcore releases page.

26 Jan 2007 Creative Commons Crazy!

Regular visitors may have noticed some new symbols appearing next to the tracks on the releases and artists pages - and some of you may recognise these symbols as Creative Commons licence icons. All releases on this site with a Creative Commons licence now have an icon next to them - so you know exactly what you can do with the music. Different releases may have different licences, e.g. some may let you remix or sample the tracks, so feel free to check them all out!

9 Jan 2007 Toucan Joins Last FM

Toucan Music tracks are now available on the popular last.fm music site. If you're already a last.fm user, why not add our tracks to your playlist or tag them and rate them? If you've not seen this site already, why not check it out now?

2 Jan 2007 End Of Year Charts Online For 2006!

The year is over, the downloads have been counted and verified (to quote a famous TV show) and we can now reveal the most popular tracks at Toucan during 2006! Claiming the top downloads spot for a second year in succession is DJ Rise, this time with his uplifting trance cut "Stratosphere" - the JMD remix. The most downloaded tune of 2005, Rise's trance track "Tribal Echo", dropped only to second position. Rise and Dreamworld make up the majority of places in the download and preview plays chart, with Dreamworld's UK hardcore remix of "Voyage To Pluto" receiving the most preview streams during 2006.

The percentage chart, which compares the number of preview streams to the number of downloads, always throws up a few surprises and The Toucan have grabbed the top spot for a second year in succession - this time with the electro breakbeat remix of "The Enemy Within".

Thanks to everyone who listened and downloaded Toucan Music tracks in 2006 - we hope you'll come back again in 2007!

1 Jan 2007 New Toucan Website!

As regular visitors will notice, the new look Toucan website is now online! As well as the redesign, all the pages have been updated so do feel free to have a look around. We're currently experiencing a few teething problems with the menu tabs and some of the pictures in Internet Explorer 7, so if this is your browser of choice please bear this in mind - we hope to have these issues fixed asap (or alternatively download Firefox 2!).