Thirty years.
One night.
New Music
Twenty-five years deep, still shipping every week
Toolbox started in 2001 with a 12" and a PO box in Salford. Today it is six live imprints, a weekly radio show on three stations across two continents, and a catalogue deep enough to fill a 64GB stick. Hard house is where it began. Toolbox House took the sound into the clubs.
Five Chapters
One opens every Friday until the night.
Spacehopper
Nik Denton & Paul King. The man who taught him to DJ, on the same record, thirty years on. Hit play on a sleeve for a preview.
Twelve hours. Plus a few surprises.
See you on the floor.
What's On
Toolbox parties, label showcases and residencies. Manchester home, occasionally elsewhere. Past dates drop off automatically.
Previously
Releases
Two labels, two carousels. Live from Beatport. Hit play on any sleeve for a preview. Full catalogue on Bandcamp, Traxsource, Juno and the Toolbox Digital Shop.
Toolkit
Twenty-two volumes since 2008. The producer's series.
Most Wanted
Toolbox House's rolling best-of.
Tough Box
Seven volumes deep. Peak-time only.
Dentology
Nik Denton, collected.
Artists
Producers, DJs and label heads across the Toolbox group.
Some of the faces behind the labels. The full roster runs to several hundred artists across twenty-five years — every one of them is on the release pages.
Labels
Toolbox Music is the umbrella. Six imprints running, several more in the archive. All of it out of Manchester.
Toolbox Choons
The digital arm. Eighty-one releases.
Toolbox White
White labels and bootleg remixes.
Footloose
Chunky house. Folded into Toolbox House.
Toolbox Distribution
Pressed and distributed across the scene.
Built To Last
Twenty-five years of hard house out of Manchester. Here's how it went.
More From Toolbox
Nik Denton opens the weekend every Friday at 5pm: two hours, Toolbox House first, live on HOTMESS RADIO.
HOTMESS RADIO
Live online, worldwide — radio.hotmessldn.com
Nik Denton on SoundCloud
Mixes and live sets, including his Gaydio Dance Arena set from Manchester Pride 2026
Shop
USBs, downloads and tees direct from the label. Full digital catalogue on the Toolbox Digital Shop.
Toolbox Volume 4
Fifty-three tracks. Three DJ mixes plus fifty full-length singles, mixed by Ross Homson, Jon BW and Venkman. Limited USB run.
BandcampToolbox 25 LIVE
The twenty-fifth birthday, recorded at Sub 101. Live sets from Denton, Homson and Ben Stevens plus a bonus Paul King mix.
BandcampToolbox 25 — Entire Catalogue
Twenty-five years on one stick. Successor to the 640-track Toolbox 20 USB. Upgrade pricing if you own Toolbox 20.
Digital ShopSpacehopper — Out Now
The Denton & King record, back on Toolbox Recordings: the Jon Hemming Remix, then Ben Vennard’s Hoppin Mad Remix.
BeatportThe full digital catalogue — plus hard house, hard dance and hardcore from labels across the scene — lives at the Toolbox Digital Shop.
Toolbox Digital ShopContact
Send A Demo
We listen to everything. Private streaming links only — no attachments, no download-required hosts. The form opens your email app with it all filled in. Give us two weeks before chasing.
Bookings & Business
- Label, bookings & licensing
- nik.denton@toolboxmusic.co.uk
- @nikdentonmusic
DECADES
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