Inside Toronto s House Music Community: Melé s Night Out

In the midst of a Toronto watering hole a Defected headliner Melé turns heads, gets people out of their stools for a blow up night, a slap you in the face kind of experience presented by Bad Resort, The Pre Game and Dopamine Machine Records at STACKT.

Dopamine Machine just recently launched their event arm and is still hitting the jets with a rally of events that all started last December at the Last Call Cocktail Club and now also partnering up with the Toronto music collective, BACATÁ, and The Kimchi Club.

Bad Resort, The Pre Game, and Dopamine Machine Record’s winter session introduced Melé to the local scene following his sets at EDC Las Vegas and CRSSD.

Melé runs Club Bad based out of the UK, if you are in that area you probably have caught wind of their record, 6 sold out shows in a row with with guests like Jasper James, William Djoko, Mella Dee and DJ Boring all passing through. You can also find artists such as Key N Krates, 96 Vibe and Lubelski releasing on his imprint.

Joining the lineup was Simon Jain (Bad Resort), BENJAY (The Pre Game), MATTY (Dopamine Machine Records) and Burnii.

Simon Jain, the founder of Bad Resort, has been pulling together Toronto’s house music community with an impressive lineup of bookings such as Low Steppa, Mark Knight, OFFAIAH, Kyle Watson and Hannah Wants.

BENJAY has earned his spot behind the decks with the love for house music he oozes with his selection, The Pre Game mix series and cinematography. You can keep an eye on the release of Ben J Abbey’s upcoming documentary about the start, evolution, and future of the Toronto’s house music scene, The House That Toronto Built, by Real Talk Pictures. 

The head Dopamine Machine supervisor is MATTY, the second chapter of his former moniker Watson, known for his releases on labels such as Armada. MATTY has been ramping up in a new direction, offering smooth sunday deep house grooves to high energy tech house that sparks the party alive through detailed, clean production.

While Burnii warmed up the night, a tenacious DJ who is off to an amazing year after finding herself opening for legends like Perc.