Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast

My new album “The Wave Function” is coming out on a brand new label, False Profit Records! You can hear a few of the new tracks on my MySpace page. The record release party is happening on Thursday, March 27, at Poleng Lounge (1751 Fulton St. in San Francisco), from 10pm to 2am. Also featuring performances by Welder, Mr. Projectile, and F’kir. The party is only $5, or for $10 you get to take home a copy of the CD! Food, drinks, music, and a free toast bar! If you can’t make it, be sure to get on my mailing list so I can let you know when the album is for sale online.

My thanks to Melvin Priester for hosting this listening party for my new music! Melvin says:

“A good number of my favorite Burning Man stories now start like this, ‘I was hanging out in our dome and then Dr. Toast started playing…’ Simply put, lying on fuzzy gymmats, listening to Dr. Toast play live, watching cool visuals on a tricked out system is one of my favorite things in the world. So, in celebration of Dr. Toast’s forthcoming new CD, The Wave Function, and also my impending departure for Europe and South America (leaving SF for A WHILE March 12), we will be recreating that set-up, sans dust, on March 6 from 8:30 to 11 p.m. @ the amazing loft of the man who has provided both the cush and the sound behind so many of my favorite burning man experiences.”

WHAT: Dr. Toast Listening Party. WHEN: Thursday, March 6, 2008, 8:30 - 11:00 p.m. (Toast starts playing a little after 9). WHERE: 865 Florida St., Space 2. VISUALS: MC Um Amel (UCSC Digital Arts/New Media). SOUND: Periphony Systems. DAMAGE: $10, in advance, via paypal to mpriester@gmail.com

Friday, February 22, 2008 - Kelly Kemp & Company Dance is a San Francisco-based group that presents some really wonderful modern dance. I’m honored to be playing music at their fundraising event. Free admission, open bar, silent auction, and donations accepted. 8-10:30pm, Dance Ground Keriac, 1805 Divisadero @ Bush, San Francisco.

Friday, February 22, 2008 - My thanks to False Profit’s public relations agency for fabricating this choice quote from me: Reached for comment waterskiing in Dubai, James Reynolds, False Profit’s Executive VP of Whomptronics offered this bit of advice: “We’re unabashedly suggesting all investors should fill out their portfolios with a selection of DIRTY beats, funked-up breaks, seismic wobbles, gritty textures and filthy, nasty, sexed-up basslines, as every player in this dynamic segment is poised to thrive mightily.” 10pm, $10, DNA Lounge - 375 11th St @ Harrison, San Francisco.

Friday, February 1, 2008 - Delicious Drips is a new company that brings “A unification of urban art vinyl toys that redefines the concept of the assembly line…” These toys are works of fine art rendered by local and international artists. Dr. Toast will be performing at their launch party along with Ganucheau, Cubik+Origami, Djeeno, DJ Squelchy, and DJ Daps. Reception featuring work by Coolvader, DLi$H, Boxguts, Phu!, & Tanki. Free sake bombs all night, free raffles every hour! 8pm til late, D-Structure, 520 Haight St, San Francisco

Monday, December 31, 2007 - Dr. Toast is warming up the new year with crispy, toasty goodness in a time-traveling adventure set in a San Francisco underground warehouse.  False Profit presents: SHIFT. Also featuring Alxndr, benchun, DJJD, Maer, Obi-j, DJ Spaceinvader, F’kir, Genji, Hypnotech, and Kitty-D.  Be sure to visit the Trans-Temporal Saloon and Sensorium during your stay!

Friday, November 2, 2007 - The Space Cowboys are throwing a mid/downtempo night at Shine as a benefit for their good friend Otto Schutt, who is undergoing treatment for cancer. Also performing are favorites like DJJD of False Profit, Ernie Trevino debuting his new self-produced downtempo material, and more! $5, 9pm-2am (Dr Toast at 11:45 pm), 1337 Mission St. (between 9th and 10th), San Francisco

October 20, 2007 - “Word of Mouth” are a great bunch of folks who throw free events promoted primarily by… well, word of mouth! Join us for music and dancing at a two-part party, first from noon to 6 at a park in Oakland, then from 6pm until late at an intimate warehouse location in Alameda. Dr. Toast performs at around 7:30 during the open bar… See the WOM website for details!

Saturday, September 15, 2007, 10:30pm - 6:30am - Avant is the brand-new element created in False Profit’s giant Circular Joy Collider. “It’s not anything like Einsteinium or Californium, which are highly radioactive and tend to make you groggy.” Avant also features Kelpe, edIT, Rena Jones, Shen, Deru, Tycho, RaNDom, Nalepa, and Anasia. Full bar, chai, delectable treats, breakfast snacks (toast??), indoor/outdoor spaces. SomArts, 934 Brannan St., San Francisco, CA. Tickets, info.

Thursday, August 30 2007, 3 am (Friday morning) - Dr. Toast reprises his 2005 performance at the Solarium! For 2007, The Polarium is a 30-foot igloo-shaped geodesic dome with eight channels of 3-D spacialized sound, located at Boreal near 2:00, where “a chilled out beat will provide just the right mind relaxation to allow the bears to recoup and fight another day against the elements.”  Be sure to also catch the Dr. on Tuesday Night!