{"id":166800,"date":"2025-06-13T12:15:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/meet-lenny-pearce-the-toddler-techno-dj-throwing-raves-for-children\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:15:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T16:15:29","slug":"meet-lenny-pearce-the-toddler-techno-dj-throwing-raves-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/06\/13\/meet-lenny-pearce-the-toddler-techno-dj-throwing-raves-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Lenny Pearce, the \u2018Toddler Techno\u2019 DJ Throwing Raves for\u00a0Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tLenny Pearce had been producing electronic music and uploading it to SoundCloud for years, but it wasn\u2019t until he made a remix unlike anything being played in the club scene that his career skyrocketed.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe first one that really took off was \u2018Head, Shoulders, Knees & Toes,\u2019 techno version,\u201d says the Australian producer. <\/p>\n

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\n\tHe\u2019s speaking about his edit of the classic children\u2019s song that encourages kids to touch their head, shoulders, knees and toes. (And eyes, and ears, and mouth and nose.) But instead of being rendered in traditional sing-song, Pearce\u2019s version is done with kickdrum and waves of dark synth. <\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s one of many canonical children\u2019s songs that Pearce has made dance remixes of, forging a genre he calls \u201ctoddler techno,\u201d and with it carving out a niche space in the touring world with his baby raves.<\/p>\n

\n\tThus far, Pearce has hosted events in Australia, Bahrain, Singapore and the United States, where he launched a ten-date tour this week. The run hits nine U.S. cities through the end of the month, with each event welcoming between 700 to 1,500 children and parents. Most of the shows sold out within minutes, altogether selling more than 11,000 tickets. After the U.S. he\u2019s off to Malaysia and has had offers come in from Kenya as well.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNursery rhymes are just known by everyone,\u201d he says of his global demand. <\/p>\n

\n\tDJ-ing all-ages parties wasn\u2019t on Pearce\u2019s radar when he started in entertainment. 15 years ago, he was part of a 10-person breakdancing crew that won Australia\u2019s Got Talent<\/em> in 2010. This team, Justice Crew, then transformed into a boy band that clocked hits like \u201cBoom Boom,\u201d which hit No. 1 on the Australian ARIA Singles chart. Pearce DJ\u2019d as part of Justice Crew shows and fell in love with production, eventually leaving the group to focus on it. While his career was for a time \u201cgoing nowhere,\u201d he says he eventually became a better and better producer, working in house and tech house and uploading his music to streaming platforms while trying to get the attention of labels.<\/p>\n

\n\tThen, two years ago his first child \u2014 a daughter \u2014 was born. \u201cShe captured my heart,\u201d Pearce says. \u201cI wanted to do everything for her.\u201d He was still making music, but was suddenly also a stay-at-home dad. And as any parent who\u2019s spent long stretches of time with their young child has likely experienced, traditional children\u2019s music was suddenly on heavy rotation in the Pearce household.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe liked \u2018The Wheels On the Bus\u2019 and and all that,\u201d says Pearce of his daughter. \u201cWith my creative mind I was thinking that I could remix these songs and put them on TikTok.\u201d Amid the bottles and naps, he did just that, working from his home studio. \u201cAnd then it just started to take off from there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tOne of Pearce\u2019s first uploads, the techno edit of \u201cHead, Shoulders, Knees & Toes\u201d quickly racked up 500,000 views, with Pearce\u2019s follower count on TikTok growing from 30,000 to over a million as he uploaded other kid-centric club edits. (He now has 2.1 million followers on the platform.) The track\u2019s success lead him to sign myriad remixes to the longstanding Dutch dance label Spinnin\u2019 Records, an imprint he\u2019d been trying to get the attention of for years. In 2024, Spinnin\u2019 released his slinky club version of \u201cWheels On the Bus,\u201d which now has 2.3 million views on YouTube alone.<\/p>\n

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