![]() That’s where Mixmag catches up with the co-founders on a cold December evening a few months later. Every Wednesday evening at Pacific Junction Hotel, the crew host a live radio show and podcast party. The promotional group and record label have established a reputation as dedicated and unpretentious party throwers since they began organising acclaimed beach parties almost five years ago.Īside from the infamous lore of the Secret Beach, the team’s most vital contributions to the underground dance music community in Toronto are the Secret Society Sessions. Along with DJs Matt von Wilde and Tim San Andres, and creative director Tim Sandik, they make up the core members of Toronto’s Secret Society. “We get paid in love,” says co-founder Thomas Cardin. ![]() Only a donation box sitting on a plastic table guards the entrance.īut that’s what’s cultivated the group’s endearing reputation in Toronto. For two days, the crew load generators, speakers, CDJs and a long list of other equipment onto private boats to bring it to the beach.Īnd they do it all for free. The party is difficult to get to, but must have been even more daunting to organise. Here, with hundreds of other revellers, Mixmag will spend the next 12 hours dancing under the sun and the stars by one of the world’s largest bodies of fresh water. ![]() Journeying to Secret Society’s Secret Beach is an experience in itself. Headlamp on, we begin the next part of our journey, another 30 minutes’ walk along the series of small, rocky inlets that line Toronto’s portion of Lake Ontario. The soft dirt under-foot offers little support. After sitting on an old streetcar for 30 minutes and walking for another 15, Mixmag begins to descend down a steep cliff, holding onto a chain-link fence for balance.
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