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Broken Toy

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Broken Toy is James Copeland , a 26 year old from Cape Town, South Africa. He producespsytrance with a diverse style and a wide variety of moods for the dancefloor - from full-onto electro-funk, from deep and dreamy to tribal techno. Musical influences are too many tomention - anything with groove and attitude, ranging from metal to electro-pop and gangsterrap / hip hop. Previous musical experiences include being a guitarist and bass player invarious metal bands during his angry teenage years, although this phase quickly gave way toa voracious appetite for electronic music, kick drums, and thundering big basslines!Psytrance was the natural choice of dance music for its power and creative flexibility.He also produced as a member of the more full-on project " Damage ", and has been successfullymaking psytrance since 2001. As Damage he was one of the pioneers of the Cape Town psytrancescene, producing alongside other artists from South Africa like Shift, Artifakt,Protoculture and Phyx.Since those early days a lot has changed, but the idea is still thesame - Keep the dancefloor rocking and the party-people entertained. So expect the BrokenToy to keep bringing the noise to all the girls and boys! Since 2004 he was taken up as anAlchemy records artist and stayed in London for 2 years working closely with the label.He is now based in South Africa once more. He has gigged all over the world - Brazil, India,Russia, The UK, Canada, South Africa, Israel, Mexico, France, Spain, Austria, Italy, Greece,Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Portugal, Japan and Australia.His self-titled debut album was released in May 2005 and the follow up album " The Low , Down, Dirtysound of ..." was released in May 2007. Recently, Arno Rodrigues from the metal band 21st Century Tragedy has been joining him for the live sets and also in the forming of a new project, Super Evil . I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.1
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Member Since: 4/16/2006
Band Website: brokentoy.co.za
Band Members: James A Copeland
Influences: Depeche mode , Marilyn Manson , Iron Maiden , Joti Sidhu , Dino Psaras , The Prodigy
Sounds Like: Psy Trance with a electro/tech feel to it . Sometimes nasty , sometimes nice - Always kickin` that fat bass
Record Label: Alchemy Records
Type of Label: Indie

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New track previews! Album release date 21 May 2007 !

Hi there ! So the album is going to be released on the 21st of May . That is in 9 days time, so the countdown has began. For those of you who cannot contain your curiosity , i put up some sneak previ...
Posted by Broken Toy on Sat, 12 May 2007 07:02:00 PST

The Low , Down, Dirty Sound of...

Guess What ? I finished the album... Finally, after a 1 year delay , its done! Yeah !!! So now the artwork is being completed and then it will go to press. We`re hoping for it to be ready for release ...
Posted by Broken Toy on Sun, 18 Mar 2007 03:14:00 PST

Broken Toy Interview

Hey heres an interview I did for Monkeys` fist : Check it out... http://www.monkeysfist.co.za/2006/10/10/broken-toy-interview ed...
Posted by Broken Toy on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 11:12:00 PST

BROKEN TOY DISCOGRAPHY 2006

Hello. For those of you that are interested, I put together a little discography. This should make it easier for you to find and download my music for free off the internet, not to mention check the ...
Posted by Broken Toy on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:53:00 PST