Broken Toy is James Copeland from Cape Town, South Africa.

His unique take on producing fullon psytrance with a twisted and quirky edge has earned him his position as one of the most low, down and dirty dancefloor manipulators in the scene today. Combining a forward thinking attitude with respect to the oldschool, you can expect a hard-hitting yet groovy dancefloor experience mixing elements of funk, indie-electro, and rocking psytrance.

ITs hard to imagine, but 2013 already marks 10 years of Broken Toy! Having started his career back in 2001 as a member of the project “Damage”, he was one of the pioneers of the South African psytrance scene alongside such artists as Rinkadink, Protoculture, and Shift. Soon after, he started the Broken Toy solo project and joined Uk based Alchemy records back in 2003.

Since then he has released over 70 tracks on various labels such as Nano, Spun, Timecode, Solar tech, etc and 2 full length albums on Alchemy records - his self-titled debut album and 2007`s “The low, down, dirty sound of…”

He has toured to over 20 countries and has played at major festivals all over the world such as Boom festival in Portugal, Glade festival in the UK, Full Moon festival in Germany, SOnica in Italy, Universo Parallelo in Brazil as well as all the major parties in South Africa such as Origin, Rezonance, Vortex, H20, Alien Safari, etc.

2010 saw him branching out in 2 new directions - going back to his roots as a metal guitarist and bass player with his tongue-in-cheek psy-rock project “Super evil” and also with an electro breaks project called “Nesono”. More recently in 2013, he`s taken things down a notch and made some Swing/gypsy-jazz flavoured tech house in his new self titled project, James Copeland and also Progressive techno project Sad Paradise.

With so many creative outlets, an uncluttered and refined vision of Broken Toy has emerged in 2013, set to ignite dancefloors across the world once more.

TrackList : Set @ Earthdance 2014

" On the 21st of September i celebrated 10 years of Broken Toy with a 2hr journey starting with some of my earliest tracks leading up to the present day. Some really rare edits of some tracks you`ll know but probably never heard before made it in as well as some brand new reworks of the classics.

Thanks to all who have supported me over the years! "

More available on:
www.psyjukebox.com/sets/broken-toy
https://soundcloud.com/brokentoy

Much More !

Broken Toy

Neuro Eclipse

Dark Sun - Neuro Eclipse

SOMETHING IN THE WATER

Older tracks by me! Everyone is unreleased! Enjoy and support!

My Druxx

my  remix of deliriant's "truth be told" track

i was going to enter the remix competition but got the submission dates wrong lol

... anyway, he's given me permission to 'release' it here on soundcloud :)

ENJOY THE DOWNLOAD


Deliriant - Truth Be Told (shift Remix) - - FREE DOWNLOAD - -

Had heaps of fun working on this remix of Darkness Feels Good by Pspiralife 

This version is unmastered but has been turned up a bit 

Hope you enjoy :)

Pspiralife - Darkness Feels Good (Fossils Remix)

1 SHiFt - Forbidden Procedure (clip)

The Universe Knows Best - 2018

Faders Feat. Melicia - Nirvana (Morrisound Rmx)

Tracklist
01. OwnTrip & Lupin - Uni2
02. TwoDelic - Bad Habits
03. Mystical Complex - Dreamhack
04. Intelligence - Technovoid
05. Plasmotek & Mind Fold - You Don't Know
06. TerraForm & NaiLiK - Serious Buisness
07. Iron Vibe & Han Solo - Ignition
08. Static Movement Feat. Lydia - Nutcracker
09. Waveform - Real Lies
10. Alignments - Burst The Demons
11. AudioFire - Serpent
12. Tristate & Aioaka - Cyborgs
13. Waio & Goa Jones - Take Some LFO
14. Soniq Vision - Neuron Control
15. Mechanimal - Unity (AudioFire Remix)
16. Cosmic Tone - Psychoactive

Twisted Jah - Twisted Minds 2020 - Main Stage Saturday Night 8pm - 930pm

I decided to make a 100% narko style track touching all the aspects of a psychedelic track. Get ready, this is an 11 minute ride!!

142 bpm / Fm

Infected

twisted.shift@gmail.com

sHiFt is a powerful journey into dance & the exploration of conscious trance

to take the listener on a journey and to let the dancer free to explore 

somehow merging dark technotic vibes with uplifling and groovy elements

maintaining balance between the production and musical elements to create these different textures and "flavours" for the mind 

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Description
big booming beats and badass bass
tight tweaking tops and leery leads
power pulsing pads and enormous EFX

Band interests
messing with your head


Started	1999
Genre	psytrance
Members	chris hoy
Hometown	cape town, south africa
Record label	neXus meDia
General manager	chris hoy