I am finding it really hard to explain precisely what the Virus Project is. It’s something that has taken me some time to really work out for myself and decide how to communicate the idea properly. So, at long last, I will try and give you a more in-depth look into the ideas and philosophies behin... Read More >>
Editorial
Welcome to this, the first issue of Toxin Magazine, part of the Virus Project.
Hopefully by now you’ve read Will Poole’s article on The Virus Project Explained and so you have a rough idea of what we’re all about. Also, you’re probably already just starting to understand how confusing ... Read More >>
Anarchy in the UK
G20 Meltdown street party, Bank Junction, April 1st 2009 No mate, you can’t go anywhere…”That was the sixth time I’d heard this. I’d walked around the entire police cordon which, by this time, formed a perimeter around the large junction in front of the Bank Of England, asking when we migh... Read More >>
The State of Festivals Today
Festival, noun. 1‘A period or program of festive activities, cultural events, or entertainment.’ 2‘Gaiety; revelry; merrymaking.’ Dictionary definitions aside, what does the word conjure up for you? Each festival can be an intensely personal experience for each festivalgoer – yet at the sa... Read More >>
Generation Who Cares?
An important part of human development is about learning, often through accepting the point of view of others and taking something from the process. I think this is a lesson that a whole generation must have missed out on. Welcome to my generation, where conformity is the new cool and where politics... Read More >>
Interview with NIck Ladd
Infected Media recently got the chance to interview the creative director and co-founder of the Glade festival, Nick Ladd, in December 2008 at Ealing Studios in London. Needless to say, we jumped at the opportunity to be able to sit down and talk with the man so heavily involved with a festival that... Read More >>
Waveform Festival
12th-14th September 2008, Warren Farm, Wiltshire.This was my first Waveform and I was very, very excited as I had heard good things about it from friends who went the year before. We drove there to arrive just as it opened. I love the excitement of getting to a festival, safe in the knowledge you ha... Read More >>
Glade
Wasing Estate, Aldermaston.18th - 20th July 2008Glade has just clinched the award for Best Electronic Dance Music Festival in Britain and is considered by many as the place to be, but does it live up to the hype? I grabbed my wellies, packed my bags and decided to investigate. Glade isn’t a small ... Read More >>
Big Chill Festival
Big Chill 2008, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire
1st – 3rd August 2008
It is Big Chill 2007. I am lying on my back in the grass arena of the main stage, listening to the heavenly sounds of two orchestras, Bombay Dub and Cinematic, and watching the clouds above that look like they’ve just s... Read More >>
Secret Garden Party
An interview with the organisers of the Secret Garden Party
In November 2008, Toxin interviewed the founder and Head Gardener of the Secret Garden Party, Fred Fellowes. SGP has been putting on a festival every summer since 2004, and since we've always heard brilliant feedback about it each tim... Read More >>
Wonderland Interview
An interview with one of the organizers of Wonderland Festival. In 2007 a group of friends came together to put on a party in a bit of field hidden away in the English countryside. They invited all their friends and played music and games til the early hours of the morning. They called it Wonderland... Read More >>
Planet Angel
Live an ordinary life in an extraordinary way...” If those words don't mean something to you, let me tell you now – you’re missing out on a very special event that occurs every month in a secret location in London.
This is a gathering of beings on a happy planet that feels far from our own, ... Read More >>
Whirly-y-gig
When I walked through the doors of Whirl-Y-Gig for the first time nearly ten years ago, I thought it was absolutely incredible. It monumentally blew me away, and I was amazed that such a place could even exist in the centre of London. No longer did I have to put up with aggressive drunks, fights or ... Read More >>
Wonky Disco
Wonky Disco, Club Coliseum, Vauxhall.
6 February 2009
With ‘Play It Loud’ still ringing in my ears I can certainly say that my trip to Wonky was one bizarre, and excitingly fresh, experience. Wonky Disco is an event based in London and which comprises high quality acts from the psychedelicWord... Read More >>
Luminopolis
Luminopolis can only be explained as an indoors festival. It’s a large-scale event that combines a variety of mediums centred mostly around a mix of psychedelic music, with a nice mix of drum n’ bass, trance, breakbeats, dub and even gypsy folk, depending on which room you’re in. Its real diff... Read More >>
We Are Live
27th March 2009, The Scala, London
We Are Live is an event dedicated to showcasing a mixture of musical genres, from electro to breaks and even a bit of punk-infused drum and breaks. It took place at the Scala in London, a bit of a weird venue which is riddled with a maze of stairs and passagew... Read More >>
Road to Wonderland
9 April 2009, Jacks Club. SE1 London.
With a diverse mix of music styles, funky Alice In Wonderland themed decor, amazing atmosphere and charitable objectives, the Wonderland events are the London club scene's real hidden gems. Now summer is coming and the festival season with it, the festival ... Read More >>
Black Moon Party
5 April 2008 - Ban Tao, Koh Phangan, ThailandWe'd managed to catch around two hours' sleep in total last night what with the bumpy roads, frequent toilet stops (why, with a toilet on the bus, was that necessary?) and the incessant snoring of certain nasally-deformed passengers. We were travelling so... Read More >>
Subsource
'We Are Live' - The Scala - London - 27 March 2009 I was pointed towards Subsource by a mate a while back and I was expecting to hear the ‘next big thing in punk/dance music since The Prodigy’. Now I have to be honest – when I checked out the tracks on their Myspace page, I was bitterly disapp... Read More >>
Dingwalls, Camden 9 April 2009
Transglobal Underground are a world fusion band – although ‘collective’ may be a more accurate term, considering the fluid nature of their line-up – and have been seamlessly blending music from around the planet with Western dance music beats since 1991.... Read More >>
Pachucos y la Princesa
As applause echoed around the room, it became clear that despite going elsewhere for no more than two minutes, I had still missed the announcement of the night: “Jenny’s band has just been signed.” Well, I guess it was bound to happen sooner or later. And when the band launched itself into ano... Read More >>
Broken Robot Recordings
Broken Robot Recordings are providing some of the newest, freshest sounds I’ve encountered in a long time. With their superb genre-redefining breaks sound and emphasis on quality production, they really are the hottest new label you want in your music collection.
I made first contact with Bro... Read More >>
Grand Harmonic - The Bankers
Since the 1960s, the traditional political protest song has been as much a part of popular youth culture as the miniskirt, the sideburn or the spliff. Back then, Bob Dylan, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane and others penned romantic laments for their lost utopian fantasies of universal peace, love an... Read More >>
Rex - Evil Buddha Comb/Atom Smasher
Depending on who you’re talking to, the psybreaks subgenre is either as old as the hills or as young and fresh as the soft furry bit underneath a spring daisy’s petal. It is either an organic, broken beat soundscape with an ancestral heritage firmly rooted in the world of psytrance, or it is... Read More >>
The Prodigy - Invaders Must Die
After their early and immense success, The Prodigy have found it difficult to really maintain the momentum. Words: Will PooleWith mental songs like Smack My Bitch Up to compete with (and here Pipsqueak Poole shows his young age, as for some of us the Prodigy peaked with Jericho and Charly…Ed) they... Read More >>
Nagual Sound Experiment
This album is immense. There, I said it. You don’t need to read any further if you’re looking for a recommendation. Just go and buy this, immediately.
Words: Will JobbinsStill here? Want to know why I rate this so highly? Well, there are electronic music artists who stick to the genres, the... Read More >>
Groove Diggerz - Money For Good Times
The Groove Diggerz – winners of ‘Best Breakthrough Producer’ at Breakspoll 2007 and nominated for ‘Best DJ’ in 2008 – have been providing discerning DJs and clubbers with some of the funkiest nu-skool breakbeat around for a few years now. Not content with sitting on their collective post... Read More >>
Deadmau5 - Random Album Title
In this day and age, making truly original house music must be very difficult. It remains one of the most popular, most played and of course most produced electronic music genres around and, in what appears to be a demonstration of Borel’s infinite monkey theorem, new material just keeps coming ou... Read More >>
Lara Jade
I’m Lara Jade, I’m 19 and I’ve been shooting for almost five years now.
I have always been interested in art since a very early age. I picked up my first camera around the age of 14. However, my first experience with photography was at school during my GCSE, I’d research photography for my ... Read More >>
Karolina Lebek
Art is a part of me. I’ve been interested in photography since I can remember. I was always capturing little moments of everyday life and keeping them in my memory. Peoples faces, shapes, places , emotions. It’s like a language, way of self expression. You can communicate through the pictur... Read More >>
Lucie Cohen
"I’m Lucie Cohen, I live in London and I’m a freelance Photographer & Journalist. I am 19 years old and currently studying BA Photojournalism at The University of the Arts London. One of my biggest passions – along with writing and drawing – is photography and I love shooting everythi... Read More >>
Tom Richards
I am a documentary photographer from Cromer, Norfolk. My photographs are a bleak, unattached view of what the British coastline has become and is becoming. They exhibit both human interaction with the landscape and also the desolate, abandoned landscapes that are sometimes left behind.{em_slideshow ... Read More >>
Elli Goodlet
My primary interest is animal photography, with a focus on their sentience and welfare. I hope to strengthen people's sense of connection with the animals around them through photography, particularly in the case of farmed animals - for example the portrait of the hen with so many of her feathers mi... Read More >>
The Forest by Ori Sinai
The Forest, an animated short film by Ori Sinai.
I'm a Film Student, currently completing a BA degree about directing film at Ealing Studios, London. I've always been interested in different kinds of films, especially films that have unique use of music or animation.
This a... Read More >>
Adam Goodlet
I started my adventure into electronic music creation in 1999. Having played bass and guitar in a heavy metal band, I found myself playing with the effects pedals more than the instruments themselves. This quickly evolved into creating electronic music, with the 'real' instruments dissolving into th... Read More >>
Alec Iamb
Having been brought up on a diet of Dr Seuss, Michael Rosen and Roald Dahl, I had a fascination with words from an early age and I began writing poetry at around nine or ten years of age. It was not until 2008 however that I was persuaded by friends to perform my work live and haven't looked back si... Read More >>
Tyler McGee
My name is Tyler, and I've been writing poetry since I was all angsty, single, and teenaged. I'm from the good old US of A orginally, but grew up in what was then called Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of the Congo. My parents were missionairies, and after a change of job we moved to England. ... Read More >>
David Prentice
My name's David Prentice, I've been interested in writing for as long as I can remember really, both as a means of self expression and an alternative to a real job/career. Been scribbling all sorts for a while and only recently started sharing them with people. Most of the poetry is all found poetry... Read More >>
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