TOKA.

Toka, AKA Ian Carney, began DJing in 1990, playing at house parties and local pubs before launching the Bosh brand in ‘93 with a series of parties at Coventry’s legendary haunt, the Hope and Anchor. After completing a course in music technology, Toka set up his own studio and so began a never-ending learning curve, with Mark ‘Blakkat’ Bell of Shaboom as coach and mentor. The pair completed a few tracks at Safe studios, Blackpool, and the Bosh label was born in 1998, gaining great support and recognition from the off. Regular chartings from top DJ’s and glowing reviews in international dance publications propelled Toka’s DJ career, enabling him to play cities including New York, London, Barcelona, Lisbon. San Francisco, Moscow, Los Angeles and Madrid. The label went from strength to strength, clocking up 38 releases until 2005 when the great vinyl crash occurred. It was a number of years later that Toka decided to pick things up again and rolled out the digital label which is now over 100 releases old. In his career, Toka has released on labels including Detour, Simple Soul, Shaboom, Robsoul, Household and more and has remixed tracks for artists such as David Duriez, Jason Hodges, Gideon Jackson, Chris Carrier and Spettro.