Dr. Toast’s Amazing World of Toast

This Thursday, April 24th, 2008: Two DJs, one bus, one mobile soundsystem, cake, champagne! From Alxndr: “It’s hard to believe we launched this mobile adventure called Transported a year ago now. We do appreciate the support and your willingness to try new things. And we’re very excited to ask you to join us for our birthday party! We’ve asked a couple old friends to help us celebrate this Thursday: Dr. Toast & Piotron. We’ll be supplying plenty of champagne and birthday cake so don’t miss out. Note that we will NO LONGER be meeting at The Rite Spot. We are meeting at Shine for check-in at 7:30pm and our bus leaves at 8pm. We will return you there at 11:30pm.”

Tickets are $20 and can be purchased here:

www.brownpapertickets.com/event/33896

Thursday, April 3, 2008 - Dr. Toast mixes it up with Mimosa, Epcot, Kitty D, and Neptune. New tracks from Mimosa and Kitty D, and freestyling from Epcot throughout the night! $5, 10pm-2am, Shine (1337 Mission between 9th & 10th, San Francisco). More info at Tribe.net

Radiant textures and melodies over deep, head-nodding beats and dirty analog basslines - the perfect soundtrack for a midnight drive through the desert. Over three years in the making, “The Wave Function” is the result of my continuing immersion in San Francisco music and art communities. My eyes and ears are always being turned on to something new and strange and beautiful, and I hope you’ll be able to hear some of that in these songs. I am eternally thankful for all of the support and encouragement that has made this music possible, and I hope you’ll enjoy listening as much as I’ve enjoyed making it. You can order the CD now, featuring original artwork by Dr. Toast, or download songs now at addictech.com in high-quality MP3 or lossless FLAC/WAV formats, or download from iTunes in m4p format.

False Profit Records FPR-101 - 11 tracks - 67min 13sec

Released simultaneously with “The Wave Function”, these are four tracks of evolving textures with skronked-up basslines and slow, funky breakbeats - harder-edged than what’s on the album, but still with the right amount of bliss factor dialed in. You can download it now at the new False Profit Records minisite at Addictech in high-quality MP3 or lossless FLAC/WAV formats - falseprofit.addictech.com, or you can download MP3s at CD Baby, or download from iTunes in m4p format.

“SKRONKED!!! Can’t get over it. Makes my synaesthesia so happy, don’t even know where to begin… :)” - Galit Sorokin

4 tracks - 23min 01sec - buy from addictech.com, buy from cdbaby.com

Saturday, April 12, 2008 - For the second year in a row, Dr. Toast has been invited to perform his music in a big ol’ aircraft hangar at NASA! Yuri’s Night is a celebration of the anniversary of the first human spaceflight with a fusion of art, science, music, and dance. The lineup also includes Amon Tobin, John Tejada, Lusine, Scuba, Digitonal vs Posthuman, Deru, Tycho, Random Rab, Mr. Projectile, Ganucheau, and more! More info, Tickets

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