Nik Denton | ar

Nik is a House / Hard House producer, remixer, DJ and the driving force behind the formidable Toolbox Music group, which includes a Toolbox Distribution division, the Toolbox Recordings, Toolbox House, Hammerheads & Footloose Records labels. .

A blue eyed 60's soul performer from the east side of Detroit Mi who was signed to the Twirl label who first leased his masters to Bigtop Records at the same time as his contemporary Del Shannon. Born Gasper Badalamenti in Detroit on August 6, 1942, the young boy of Italian decent became “Mickey Denton” circa 1960. “’Mickey Denton’ was a name that came from my manager, John Brooks,” Mickey explained in an August 2009 interview to Twirl Records archivist Brian C. Young. Later, his next singles faltered on the charts outside Detroit, and masters were leased to Bell Records...

Formed in the front room of a house on the east side of Detroit in 1990, the brothers Zito (Dominic-guitar Joe-bass) teamed up with local rockabilly drummer Chad Lewis to launch The Goldentones. Chad found dominic playing a fender stratocaster through a marshall amp with a randy rhoades / ted nugent influence. Recognizing dominics talents chad introduced him to the ventures and quickly dominic was trading in his equiptment for a 1966 fender jaguar a 1970 mosrite and a fender super reverb amp. The song writing flowed like magic and they quickly became a local favorite playing most of detroits...