Toxic Avenger

In the next slamming installment, Discotheque and Olmeca Dimensions are ampt to bring you one of the hottest rising stars – The Toxic Avenger, a.k.a. Simon Delacroix: Electro thrash producer extraordinaire hailing from Paris, France.

As the growing independent dance scene keeps churning out all-night-long party DJs, and France continues to expand its domination of global club floors with its own brand of powerhouse electro-dance music, it’s The Toxic Avenger who is quickly establishing himself as the latest Frenchman devastating dance floors worldwide.

Signed to IHEARTCOMIX Records, in 2007, The Toxic Avenger was named by Rolling Stone as “One of the 5 most influential electronic artists of the year” alongside Justice, LCD Soundsystem, Digitalism and Simian Mobile Disco. He has played along with many of the current greats including Black Lips, Yelle, The Teenagers, Vitallic, Erol Alkan, MSTRKRFT, Boys Noize, Kavinsky and Crystal Castles and the infamous Public Enemy.

Though dance-inducing electro remains his signature style, The Toxic Avenger draws from a number of distinct influences not directly related to the dance scene ensuring that his take on what keeps a dance floor heaving is never predictable. Taking cues from intelligent hardcore and punk, all the way to 60’s pop, The Toxic Avenger brings us a unique blend of melodic rage and screaming synths that create sonic epic audiences can lose their minds to.

‘Toxic is Dead’, the first single from the currently untitled full length, is due to launch worldwide September 15th and will continue to propel the ever-growing mystique of the man behind the mask. Far from deceased, the Toxic Avenger’s ghostly orchestrations and pulsating rhythms, not to mention his colossal bass lines combine for a dangerous and deadly etherealness that is sure to slay dancefloors around the world straight into the afterlife.

The Toxic Avenger is currently on tour worldwide, playing in clubs and at festivals from Paris to Melbourne, Sao Paulo to New York. Next Stop…Cape Town, South Africa.

Stay tuned for more thrilling adventures of……The Toxic Avenger.

For an upfront example of what to expect from his set you can check out the mix done exclusively for Discotheque as Mix 002, second in the series of The Discotheque Mix. Visit the website for more details www.theassembly.co.za or check the link here http://soundcloud.com/the-assembly-live

TOXIC AVENGER – (FR) – [IHEARTCOMIX]

http://www.myspace.com/toxavanger

PLAYDOE

http://www.myspace.com/fuckplaydoe

LAPSE

http://www.myspace.com/djlapsecapetown

KLINIKAL

http://www.myspace.com/klinikal

FRIDAY 28th August 2009

ASSEMBLY 61 Harrington str

R100 DOOR – R80 PRESALE

TOXIC AVENGER
PLAYDOE (SIBOT & SPOEK)
LAPSE
KLINIKAL

Philip Sherburne writes an uncharacteristically laconic post mortem of the Love Parade tragedy:
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/it...

hello boys!

been a while, what's doing?

checked out robert hood a couple weeks back, super!

how's the party-scene being over the WC? I know my little cousin was trying to sneak into a few venues around there...

Improvisation & DJ tools...
http://www.beatportal.com/feed/it...

sa beats have been getting lots of attention around these parts lately

http://www.factmag.com/2010/07/09...

The cached link to the job ad if you're interested :)

http://bit.ly/cVWzhM

If you're an angry white male in your late 20's into metal, a band is looking for a singer.

The brief:

You:
25-35, good sense of humour, lank charisma, must drink beer and hard tack, must look the part, must tune lank, have strong opinions, must prefer the old south africa, must have own transport, must be angry, must be white, english or afrikaans, must be a total mental metal head to the core. Must like, listen to, be able to sing: Slayer, The Haunted, Snot, At The Gates, Lamb of God, Pantera, etc. No death/black metal.

We:
36, 37, 41, we laugh a lot, we have loads of charisma, we drink beer and cider mixed together and we drink tack mixed with anything or on it's own, we have strong opinions and we tune lank kak, we are english white people and we prefer the old south africa, we listen to Slayer, The Haunted, At The Gates, Lamb of God, The Refused, Faith No More, Machine Head, Billy Talent, Pantera, Carnal Forge, Snot, Alexisonfire, Deftones, Tool, Gallows, you get the picture.

We have access to the best studio and award winning producer in the country and will record our second full length album next year. Other than that we have nothing planned.
So if you think you can hack it and work with us, we will certainly give you a try and let's rock out.
e mail us your story if you are keen, and if you don't fit the description - don't bother us.
Metal \m/

Anyone know when LLMoog is opening again? Or whats going on there? Seems quite sad just as it was hitting its stride.

hahah what the heck is going on here....ridiculous...lol

anyway hope you all have great weekend, although i wouldn't mind going to Ibiza....

well just to break the silence from the dumbest robot ever hogging e-vent - BLEH

actually, it kinda sounds like william burroughs stuff to me...

check out the origin of tape loops by him.

@b. Skynet has become self-aware? If so, oh crap.

Bot poetry...a new genre?

"Listening to music for real airports in a real airport would make me want to punch somebody, I think." - tBd

http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/2010/...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/m...

a truly hilarious quote from dinkys hype / blurb / blah when describing how her broad range of sounds come together:

''something like a sun-dappled clearing in the woods''

ok then.

that would be 'undervalued'

now, now, Navs, i'll have no dissing of Mr Richards round here, ta.

if anything hes unervalued. it takes quite a bit of talent to hold down a residency at a place like fabric for a couple years...

wow, navs i think you need big cup of stfu, what is your town anyway?

I wish we had a club like that to complain about..

Someone fell into the cauldron of Hater-Ade when they were a baby!

Good riddance they booked the same overpriced djs who with there narrow minded thinking tend to not think beyond their’s and their mates record labels when playing, incest that ran the same gauntlet forever, recurring on an annual basis. residents Terry Francis, Richards anyone???...pretty overrated huh. Change is good; no one club should dominate the landscape. I hope to god this happens to an unORIGINal club in my town…with the winds of change blowing briskly into the sails it’s already starting to happen.

Long live Berghain with their dominant music policy and indestructible residents.

ditto - some of the best nights out ever!

tragic. some of my best club experiences ever at that place. Looks like Matter completely backfired on them. they had to pump millions into it to keep it alive and now its taken them down with it.

http://www.residentadvisor.net/ne...

great tunes but how utterly railed do the 2 of them look?!

this is absolutely sensational.gem.

http://www.getthecurse.com/2010/0...

and to all those that play cheesy funk/y/electro/house listen to this and take notes.

Incredible Kevin Gorman mix on ssgs. http://mnmlssg.blogspot.com/

Peroxide is officially hip:
http://www.astoreisgood.com/blog/...

All roads lead to Apache
http://soul-sides.com/2005/04/all...

musical necrophilia..awesome.

fuck yeah, that kenny g rant is epic! love it

Pat Metheny on Kenny G

A must read and too long to post the full content here :)

Hilarious

http://www.jazzoasis.com/methenyo...

shot main man.

navs: nice mix...relentless pace

mix contribution from me:

http://soundcloud.com/user2670215...

stripped-down stuff for the sweat rooms.

F^*(&(ing hilarious actually :D

yes, soooooo utterly hilarious.

please.