Toxe
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| Background information | |
| Born | Tove Agelii (1997年08月05日) August 5, 1997 (age 28) |
| Genres | electropop electronica |
| Occupations | Producer, Singer |
| Years active | 2015–present |
| Labels | PAN, Year0001 |
Tove Agélii,[1] known as Toxe, is a Swedish music producer and singer. She began her career in 2015 by posting her music to SoundCloud. She has since released two extended plays; Muscle Memory (2015) and Blinks (2018), an original soundtrack 'The Story Of Leonora' (2023), and her debut solo album; Toxe2 (2024).
Early life and musical beginnings
[edit ]Agélii's parents are both artists,[1] though she has said she had no musical background. At age 14, she attended a music camp for girls, and at the conclusion of the camp performed a Deerhoof song, "The Perfect Me".[2] Her older brother installed Ableton on her laptop, and she made her first track by largely sampling her voice.
Career
[edit ]October 2015, by which time Toxe was 17, saw her release the single "Determina", which had "slippery textures with menacingly sparse, creeping percussion" according to The Fader .[3] In December 2015, she released the song "Xic" on Texan producer Rabit's label Halcyon Veil.[1] This song sampled Britney Spears's "Toxic".[4] [1] It was followed by her 2015 debut EP Muscle Memory, which she released at age 17. She was living an "isolated life" in Gothenburg, Sweden, though spent time travelling Europe to perform while also working on her high school studies,[1] as she was getting bookings at Sónar, Club To Club, and Berghain.[5] When finishing up high school she released a remix of Slipknot's "Psychosocial", which she said was her "graduation song".[6]
After leaving high school, she appeared at the Way Out West festival in August 2016; Dazed reported that she played "hard-as-nails industrial club music, screeching rap, hardstyle tempos, and leftfield R&B." By this point she has also joined fellow musician Kablam at Drömfakulteten, a Stockholm-based music studio space.[2] She was listed as one of The Guardian 's "20 under 20" of teenage musical talent that September.[7] She performed a Boiler Room studio set.[4]
In 2017, she released a mix with The Fader which featured a piano intro, string melodies, and vocals from Aaliyah,[8] and also released an audiovisual project, Morning Story,[4] in collaboration with The Vinyl Factory,[9] performed alongside artist Niclas Hille.[4]
On 22 June 2018, she released an EP, Blinks, on the label PAN, self-described as "a fractal bloom of candied melodies and minor laments set in a sweep of frenetic rhythmic scenes".[9] [4] "Big Age" was a pre-release single.[9] Exclaim! gave the EP an 8 out of 10, calling it "considerably more skeletal and deliberate".[4] October 2018 saw Toxe opening for British musician Actress at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center; this was her first American performance.[10]
In 2019, Toxe collaborated with Berlin-based producer Mechatok on the project Emiranda' and released the EP 'My Face'.'.[11] In 2021, her music soundtracked the short film The Story Of Leonora' which was later released on PAN.'.[5]
By 2024 Toxe had moved to New York and had graduated with an architecture degree. Her thesis was titled "The Publicity Of Domestic Space & Illusions Of Intimacy", focused on the public sharing of one's private life online.[12] During her study she had written and produced Toxe2, her debut album.[5] A single, "Som En Sol", released in June 2024, was listed as one of Vogue 's contenters for song of the summer in 2024.[13] Toxe2 was released in August 2024 via Swedish multidisciplinary label Year0001. Mixmag described the album as "a bright and emotive body of work that combines Toxe’s innovative production techniques with a melodic sensibility".[5]
References
[edit ]- ^ a b c d e Cliff, Aimee (18 May 2016). "Meet Toxe, The High Schooler Behind Sweden's Gutsiest Club Music". The Fader . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ a b Bulut, Selim (22 August 2016). "Meet the brutally brilliant DJs destroying your dancefloors". Dazed . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Cliff, Aimee (13 October 2015). "Swedish Producer Toxe Breaks Down Walls With "Determina"". The Fader . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ a b c d e f Hayes, Byron (19 June 2018). "Toxe: Blinks". Exclaim! . Archived from the original on 22 September 2021. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ a b c d Wheeler, Seb (21 August 2024). "The Mix 027: Toxe". Mixmag . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Cliff, Aimee (18 May 2016). "This Deranged Slipknot Remix Is For Angry Teens Everywhere". The Fader . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Fox, Killian; Morris, Damien; Cragg, Michael; Bromwich, Kathryn; Snapes, Laura; Rogers, Jude (4 September 2016). "20 under 20: music's teenage talent". The Guardian . ISSN 0261-3077 . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Cliff, Aimee (21 February 2017). "Fader Mix: Toxe". The Fader . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ a b c Kent-Smith, Jasmine (2 June 2018). "PAN to release new Toxe EP, 'Blinks'". Mixmag . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ "Actress + Toxe". Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center . 20 October 2018. Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Joyce, Colin (26 July 2019). "This Mechatok Mix Is Like a 'Little Party Inside Your Brain'". Vice . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Agelli, Tove. "Tove Agelii". Gerrit Rietveld Academie . Retrieved 28 February 2026.
- ^ Borrelli-Persson, Laird (2 July 2024). "What's the Song of the Summer? Here Are 22 Contenders". Vogue . Retrieved 28 February 2026.