29 December 2008New Dark House Track

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. Download now from the current releases page.

22 December 2008Toucan 2008 Mix Available

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, JMD and more, and takes you on a journey through a variety of styles including electro, progressive, funky house, breakbeat and melodic trance. A full tracklist and download link is available on our year mixes page.

18 December 2008New Hardcore Track

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. Download them now from our hardcore releases page.

13 November 2008Remixers - Free Psychadelik Pedestrian Track Parts!

Attention all remixers: now is your chance to remix tracks from Psychadelik Pedestrian's album. Parts from four tracks, Eternal Truth, Liquid Nitrogen, One Five Eight and Memories, have gone live today at CCMixter.org, the Creative Commons remix site. All parts are completely free to download and use - if you do remix one of the tracks we'd love to hear from you so get in touch - email info@toucanmusic.co.uk!

31 October 2008Sea.Envy Mix Features Toucan

Sea.Envy has featured no less than five Toucan tunes in his latest mix for DJ mix netlabel Sonic Walker. Combining a variety of tracks from JMD, Redmann and Marc Burt and mixing in some other great music including a couple of his own productions for good measure, Sea.Envy's latest mix, "The Last Raver Dancing" seamlessly brings together the world of hard and fast trance with the faultless mixing we have come to expect from one of the best netlabel DJs. Download it now from http://www.sonicwalker.com/releases/swm070/.

16 October 2008Electro House Release from Beat Doctor

Old skool rave meets electro house in this new release from Beat Doctor available from today. 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. Download both tracks tracks now from the current releases page.

21 September 2008New E.P. from Redmann

New this week is an extended release from Redmann featuring three tracks of synthesised club music. "Plasma" is an energetic, pure trance release with rippling arpeggios, laid back synth pads and deep growling bass. "Solar Rush" is a chilled, slightly downtempo track with compressed breakbeats and a catchy synth riff. "Force Of Nature" is an electro-house influenced club track with lush pads and house beats. All tracks are in full length mixes. Download all three tracks now from the current releases page.

22 August 2008Psychadelik Pedestrian Album Released

Psychadelik Pedestrian's long awaited self-titled compilation album is released today! The album brings together 14 of the best Psychadelik Pedestrian tracks from 1996 to 2008. Combining instrumental and orchestral sounds with lush, uplifting, sometimes sinister synth pads and old skool rave and jungle influences, Psychadelik Pedestrian creates chillout, trip hop, drum and bass and electronica with a distinctive melodic feel. The tracks chosen for this compilation all demonstrate Psychadelik Pedestrian's trademark sound, and are available here in full, newly remastered mixes. Download the album from our brand new albums section.

22 August 2008Rate our Releases

Our current releases section now features a star rating system to allow you to provide feedback on our tracks! Just select your rating and click on the "Rate" button.

15 July 2008New Mixes of Marc Burt's Turblence

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 - download them now from the current releases page.

23 June 2008New Funky House from Phish Funk

Phish Funk stir up the dancefloor with two new funky tracks. "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. Dave Kent adds a bonus remix of Phish Funk's "Phenomenon", retaining the original bouncy synth stabs and adding funky riffs and throbbing house beats. Both tracks are in full DJ friendly unmixed mp3 format with extended introduction and ending ideal for mixing. Download both tracks from the current releases page.

12 June 2008Loopzilla feature Beat Doctor and Redmann

Marcus E. Henry features two Toucan tracks on his latest mix for Loopzilla. Beat Doctor's "The Piano Tune" and Beat Doctor's mix of Redmann's "Tonight" are both included on the "Beach Life" mix which is described as being full of "cool and relaxed tunes - just the kind of stuff to get right into party mood, or maybe to calm down after partying the night away". Check it out here.

22 May 2008New Release

JMD and new talent 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. Psychadelik Pedestrian's remix adds breakbeats and melodic, uplifting pads. Both mixes are available in full DJ friendly mp3 format.

You can download both from the current releases page here.

8 May 2008New Release

New from Marc Burt today is a double track release featuring two progressive house tracks with trance and techno influences. "Pioneers" features rolling, acidic synths and bass complete with a catchy, unusual vocal sample. "Five Senses" 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.

You can download both tracks from the current releases page here.

14 Apr 2008Electro House Release

Beat Doctor returns this week with a new house release including two full tracks. "The Piano Tune" features a simple yet irritatingly catchy piano riff, pumping house beats and a driving, gritty synth line. "Too Retro" features 80s influenced rhythms combined with a house kick, thumping bass and electro house synths, adding old skool rave stabs and effects. Both tracks are in full DJ friendly format and are free to download in mp3 format from our current releases page.

7 Apr 2008New Chillout from Risey

Risey returns this week with a brand new track, "I'm Chilled", combining his trademark melodic style with chilled, retro breaks, deep bass and ambient pads and pianos. Beat Doctor provides an electro hosue remix, featuring throbbing acidic bass, distorted sidechained synths and pumping club beats guaranteed to get the dancefloor moving. Both mixes can be downloaded from Beats Digital through our Premium Releases page.

30 Mar 2008Toucan Mix on Sonic Walker

The Sonic Walker DJ mix netlabel have released a mix of Toucan tracks prepared by John of Toucan Music. The mix features house, progressive, breaks and electro, combining more commercial sounds with some more minimal grooves while maintaining an upbeat, melodic vibe. You can listen to and download the mix, view the tracklist and find out more at http://www.sonicwalker.com/2008/03/30/sonic-walker-mix-48-the-world-of-toucan/.

25 Mar 2008New Release

New today from Redmann is "Tonight", a bouncy house track with old skool piano riffs, smooth melodic sidechained synth pads, pumpin' club beats and a lush female vocal. Two bonus 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 the current releases page.

14 Mar 2008New Podcast Special Online

The seventh in our series of occasional podcasts is now online. This time, John picks some more of the latest Toucan tracks, including some new and unreleased material. The mix is 41 minutes long and is available free to download here. You can also subscribe to our podcasts and get new releases and our mix specials direct to your desktop.

20 Feb 2008New Trance Release

JMD is back with another uplifting trance release. "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. Psychadelik Pedestrian presents a chillout remix, based on the pad section, adding spaced out beats. The bonus track, "Subfusion", is a melodic, thumping club trance track with old school synth and electro influences and features a catchy, slightly tongue in cheek, main synth hook. All tracks are DJ friendly and feature extended introduction and ending; ideal for mixing into your set. Download them now from the current releases page.

20 Feb 2008Dreamworld shoots to number 1

"Feel The Power", the first new Dreamworld track for nearly three years, has shot to number one in the Download.com hardcore chart less than a week after its release. Joining Dreamworld in the top ten yesterday, Excelsior's "Dipsomania" also put in a reappearance at number 5.

15 Feb 2008Another Hardcore Release

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. Featuring extended introduction and ending for mixing, the track is DJ friendly as usual and ideal for dropping in your set. Download now from the hardcore releases page.

8 Feb 2008New Electro House Track

A new premium release this week from Beat Doctor, who returns with the electro house track "Organic", a pumping dancefloor track with old skool organ stabs and resonating upfront bass. Two mixes are available, both in DJ friendly extended format suitable for dropping in your set.

More details are available on our premium page, or get them now from Beats Digital.

28 Jan 2008New Hardcore Release

New producer DJ Kube has provided us with a thumping 2008 remix of the 90's hardcore track "Dipsomania", originally by Excelsior, now available to download free from the hardcore releases page. The release also features remastered versions of the original piano mix, which became a surprise download hit back in 2002, and the Prism remix.

23 Jan 2008Sonic Walker Features Toucan Tunes

Sea.Envy has featured two Toucan tracks on his latest mix for international DJ mix netlabel Sonic Walker, Halo. Psychadelik Pedestrian and Dave Kent's "Fish Ate My Monkey Tank" and Psychadelik Pedestrian's 2007 remix of Redmann's "Sound Off" are seamlessly blended in with music from other labels such as Evil Records in the mix. Download it now here!

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18 Jan 2008Free Downloads

Two of our premium releases are available free of charge this week as part of the BeatsDigital free downloads promotion. Phish Funk's uplifting funky house remix of "Against The Grain", and JMD's hard trance remix of "By The Water" are available free for one week only, so grab them while you can here.

02 Jan 2008Risey Tops The Charts

Happy New Year! A massive thanks to all our visitors who downloaded a total of 80,287 tracks from Toucan Music in 2007. The last year has been our best year to date, with the download total beating our previous record of 75,695 back in 2005, and as ever this total doesn't include several of our partner sites so the real figure will be considerably higher. We'll have plenty more releases coming up in 2008 so make sure to keep checking back!

The annual charts for 2007 have been compiled at Toucan and once again Risey (a.k.a. DJ Rise) has topped the download chart, this time with "Pattaya Boom Boom". The same track also topped the previews chart, making it officially the most popular Toucan track of 2007. This time around, Risey has swooped all the top six places in the download chart, making him easily our most popular artist over the past year. Well done Ryan!

Dreamworld take the remaining places in the download chart and also feature in the previews chart, while Phish Funk and Marc Burt score in the previews chart as well with the heavily played "Stargazing" and "Last Flight Home" respectively.

The percentages chart, which compares the number of previews to the number of full downloads, always throws up a few surprises and this year is no exception. The Beat Doctor remix of Psychadelik Pedestrian's "Power Line" takes the top place, with tracks by Excelsior, Risey, JMD, Redmann and Marc Burt all featuring in the top ten.