Toronto based Producer/DJ

https://linktr.ee/terrortone

Check out this interview in my studio about inspiration, UK Garage and Toronto  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fCSFkl8eBY&t=15s

Booking/Remix - luke@terrortone.com


Released on:
Plastik People
Step2
9d5dance
Simma Black
Kollusion Records
Thursday Traxx
Pogo House Records
Last Planet Records
Friday Rush Records
Yosh
Dub City Traxx
Ultra Bass Records
White Widow
Inner City Dance
https://soundcloud.com/Stacked
LW Recordings
Tasty Swagger
Nu Wave
3000 Deep
#Unknown
Panama Red 
Intellegenix

As heard on :
BBC Radio 1, 1xtra, KISS FM, Rinse FM, Reprezent FM, Radar Radio, Dubplate.FM, D3ep Radio, TRP and many more!

Originally born Rob Markum, Richmond, VA based artist Octavion X arrived on the seen with his first official mixtape "Definition Of Xcellence" in 2007. 

He finds inspiration in many places and have traveled to New York City, California, Georgia, Colorado which has influenced his creative style and process. He creates music because the feeling of releasing past traumas by telling my side of the story is unmatched.. He specialize in creating music for retired drug dealers striving to be entrepreneurs in the new age of technology. His main focus on delivering the lessons learned from both good and bad choices made through out the years.. He also enjoy working with articulate producers and detail orientated engineers.

He rose to local fame when becoming a member of a rap group called Suburban District and received national media coverage for their first album called "Don't Mind Us We're Just The Future" that released in 2012. After having a successful tour with the group he went on to release his first official album "Vigilante" under Smooth Dirty Productions, LLC.

Octavion has performed along side some of the industries biggest names including artists such as Curren$y, Big Sean, Riff Raff, Action Bronson and many more.

His art style is gritty, in your face and unapologetic.. He am motivated by the thoughts of generational wealth and escaping the system.  When asked about musical influences he proudly states artists like Nas and Mf Doom have contributed to his development. 

He has been featured at RVA Mag, Style Weekly, Ear Milk, The Fader and more. He was even named one of Style Weekly's TOP 40 under 40 back in 2015.

Metal Blade Records history by Dan Slessor:
Founded upon owner Brian Slagel's enduring drive to find great bands and get their music out to as many people as possible, since 1982 Metal Blade has brought wave after wave of powerful, innovative, and often genre-defining music to the ever-hungry metal masses. It is this ethos that has seen Metal Blade build up a stunning and diverse catalogue, weather the various storms facing any independent label, and in an age of declining record sales boast the most successful years of its existence as it strides into its fourth decade.

What perhaps makes this achievement all the more notable is the fact that Slagel never even intended to start a label. Working in an LA record store and writing for various publications, Slagel was acutely aware that many great bands in the local metal scene were being ignored, and he decided to release a compilation of tracks drawn from these ranks. "There were a lot of really good bands and I was just bummed out that nobody could hear them. It just seemed like I could help them out and have some fun at the same time, and that compilation was the first Metal Massacre," he states. Collating tracks from then unknown bands including Ratt, Bitch, Cirith Ungol, and Metallica amongst others, the compilation sold out immediately. "How important is Metal Blade to our career? They're only the reason we are enjoying the worldwide success we have today," states Metallica's James Hetfield. "Without Brian's openness to some raunchy teens with a crap sounding cassette tape we would be who knows where, and playing who knows what!" With the popularity of the tape spurring Slagel on, the first seeds of Metal Blade were sown. "After the success of those compilations I just started putting out records of bands that I was friends with, but without ever really intending it to be a label at all," he explains. "After I put out four or five releases I started to feel like something was happening, and I decided to quit the record store and quit college and see where it went."

Battling through the first few lean years, when the label consisted solely of Slagel working out of his mom's poorly ventilated garage in the San Fernando Valley, it gradually grew in both revenue and stature. Within a few years Metal Blade would go on to release the debuts of Slayer, Armored Saint, Trouble, and Corrosion Of Conformity amongst others, fanning the flames of the burgeoning metal scene and launching careers of bands that would go onto reap global success. "Without Metal Blade, there is a damn good chance we never would've made it out of L.A," says Slayer's Kerry King. "That was the one bit of luck we needed. You can be the most awesome band on the scene, and if no one notices you, you don't catch on. And Brian Slagel is still one of the biggest metalheads I know!" This genuine love and devotion to metal is central to the relationship many of the artists have with Metal Blade, and King Diamond credits much of its relevance and strength to this passion. "I refer to it as having 'boots on the ground'," the mighty Dane states. "It's not like a major label where some people might be into what you're doing but a lot of them just see it as a job – there's a genuine love for metal there. Through staying true to that and doing their own thing they've carved out a very specific niche that they control, and as an artist it's wonderful to be a part of that."over the years. Clearly without those people we couldn't do what we do, and to everyone out there who has helped us along by being a fan we are so very grateful to you."

Read more: http://www.metalblade.com/us/about-us/

Say hello at fonsmithmusic@gmail.com

Valencia-based. 
Hopeless romantic and vinyl collector, Fon Smith is always trying to offer a distinctive experience through electronic music. With progressive music as his premise, and inspired by the 90s, he loves creating atmospheres and stories to be remembered, always keeping his characteristic sound elegance and a sleek tune selection.

Tracks by Shaun Slaughter aka D.A.M.B.
Freqy Record Group / TRACEY RECORDINGS / NO BRAINER / LE HEAT / DANR RECORDS


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