MUSIC UNIVERSE · TORONTO, CANADA
Spacedread is the music universe created by Cassius Crieghtney and his team of misfits, where songs become art, games, films, characters and experiences.
Music is the source. Everything else grows from it.
HIRE THE TEAMBOOK SPACEDREADShoots from $250 plus taxFall Sale edits $99 plus tax01 · THE SOURCE
Every door in this universe was opened by one of these. Two hundred songs over a decade. Here are nine of them, playing in full, right now, no account, no download, no lore required.
I got your BECKY. She was on the way.. Just promise me you stay away from the V...
02 · HOW IT WORKS
Follow a single Spacedread song all the way down and it turns into a drawn chapter, a reel, a playable game, a cast of characters and a festival full of real people.
MANGO TWEE · one song · six things
THE SONG
Written and produced by Cassius. Three minutes of it and the whole orange thing starts.
THE ARTWORK
31 illustrated pages. The song's world drawn out panel by panel, hiding collectibles the rest of the universe pays attention to.
THE FILM
The chapter cut into motion. The same song, now scoring its own footage.
THE GAME
The anthem became a playable arcade runner. Auto-run the Toronto sunset, collect the mangos, dodge the corrupted ones.
THE CHARACTERS
Everyone the songs mention eventually turns up with a face, a walk cycle and their own opinions about the plot.
THE EXPERIENCE
And then it leaves the screen entirely: a real festival, run out of a command centre that cues PAPI · SOLO TU when the gates open.
BOUT IT
CASSIUS & DIZZLE
BECAME ↓
MANGO MOUNTAIN
The run lasts exactly one song. When BOUT IT ends, the mountain ends.
ROAD TRIP
SPACEDREAD
BECAME ↓
PLAYCATION
The song conducts the world. The highway is built out of its own arrangement, bar by bar.
THE TOSS AWAY'S
SPACEDREAD
BECAME ↓
THE TOSS AWAY'S
A 2024 EP about discarded things became a parade of rescued ones storming the Eraser King's castle.
03 · MOVING PICTURES
Films, reels and playable episodes. Same universe, different medium. Put sound on.
04 · WHO
Spacedread is Cassius Crieghtney and a rotating crew of musicians, artists, filmmakers, producers, developers and friends who kept showing up on the same night every week for ten years. Everything on this site came out of those rooms.
★ THE STAR OF THE UNIVERSE
The star · transformation in motion
Spacedread represents the belief: you are allowed to change without losing the part of yourself that still knows how to dream, play and imagine.
He turns mistakes into stories, songs into worlds and uncertainty into movement.
That is why he is our star. Spacedread is transformation in motion and a reminder to protect your inner child while becoming whoever you are meant to become.
Founder · music, story, code
Writes the songs, then refuses to let them stay songs. Two hundred tracks over a decade, a #1 Latin record on Solo Tu, and every world on this site built out from them.
MORE ON CASSIUS →
Creative partner · the weekly room
Ten years of the same standing session with Cassius. Two hundred songs, a graphic novel, and every painting in the art collection, made by her hand. She's in the universe too: PANTS is in the chat rooms because Amanda was in the real ones.
HIRE MANDA PANTS →
Latin artist · founder of TRPKL
Born in Monterrey, raised in Toronto, rapping and singing in two languages. 2.67M views, his own label, and Solo Tú: the #1 Latin record he made with Cassius.
MEET PAPI AQ →
Artist · director · anime head
From the Rolling Loud parking lot to T.I. bringing him on stage in front of thousands. Rockin' With, Pika and Aye Shawty were all shot with Spacedread.
BOOK KEMDILO →
Singer-songwriter · event organizer
Toronto R&B and soul, ten singles deep. Her latest, Cliff, is episode two of a seven-part visual album, and she runs her own shows, from Golden! to The Butterfly Gala. Also the second voice on DON'T YOU (WAITING).
MEET RAECHELL →
Main engineer · Red Hand Silva
Records hip-hop, pop, R&B and rock out of Lynx Music in Toronto, after time at BOTA Studios in Mississauga. He engineered Solo Tu. Fast in the chair, easy in the room.
BOOK KYLE →
Producer · the Spacedread sound
One of the producers who shaped how Spacedread sounds. He's the main producer on many of the songs in the catalogue, Solo Tu included.
BOOK EXHALE →
Artist · barber
Four years with the crew. Co-wrote BOUT IT with Cassius, which is now a whole mountain you can snowboard down, and made the Kryptonite video with us. Also cuts hair.
MEET DIZZLE →
Cinematographer · TRPKL
The main cinematographer behind TRPKL, always out shooting in the city. He premiered a 30 minute piece at Mango Mixer.
BOOK JAKE →
Actor · producer · photographer
Toronto actor who moved behind the camera to produce, then picked up a second camera and started shooting weddings and events.
BOOK JESS →
DJ
Our client and our DJ. He had the decks at Mango Mixer and killed it. Book him for your night.
MEET SYLUS ROSE →SEAT #12 IS OPEN
If you're a misfit reading this: the weekly session is open, and so is the Discord.
05 · THE DEEP END
A living 2D world you walk around with other people in it, nine arcade games on one leaderboard, playable episodes, a 24-hour radio station, hidden songs, and a fruit-based economy nobody has fully mapped.
