I’ve appreciated Toro Y Mois’ LP Causers Of This as a great piece of production and using texture to make his songs catchy more than his vocals. I stumbled upon Toro Y Mois’ side project, Les Sins, through his myspace never knowing that it was his side-project until today. I remember listening to some pretty decent music while looking at these really cool retro miami-vibe photos. I feel like Chaz’s talents in the production of music surpasses his live performances, which is why I am very much into his ‘dance house’ based side-project, and super stoked it’s getting a proper 12” single release on Carpark November 9th.

Les Sins “Youth Gone” by carparkrecords

Les Sins: Lina

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TORO Y MOI “YOU HID” from Yours Truly on Vimeo.

Love: Whose Songs are Dreams in the Human Mind // Toro Y Moi [Part 1 of 2] from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.

Love: Whose Songs are Dreams in the Human Mind // The Ruby Suns [Part 2 of 2] from Ray Concepcion on Vimeo.

Listen to Toro Y Moi get interviewed and play Talamak, You Hid, and Freak Love live. This gets me psyched to see him play. I also am a fan to hearing my favorite artists get interviewed, like the Kurt Vile radio interview I posted a while back, from the same VIVA Radio.

In this super cool video, you can watch Chaz play with his indie friend with colored smoke in his hometown, and sing about it through a microphone. I had always thought this song was about a girl, but now I see it is perhaps about the loss of a good friend, maybe over a fight or something. I didn’t realize how deep this track was until I saw this vid. I now feel that I am able to ‘connect’ with Chazs’ music at a coherent level.

‘Make another telephone call, wake up you and me’


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Found it on his blog today, it’s primarily an acoustic song:

Missya by ToroyMoi

You can also check out some of his other demos (I’ve only heard Sad Sams out of the ones that are posted) via Soundcloud

Crazy right? Much thanks to Spirit for getting at me and submitting this really intense glitchy remix of Toro Y Mois’ Timed Pleasure remix, posted earlier today.

Toro Y Moi: Timed Pleasure (Body Language & Shane Remix)

This is a 22 minute remix of Toro Y Moi songs, by a duo called Spirit. It features material not on Causers Of This, and is good prep for Toros’ next album that ‘may’ be dropping in August.

Les Bull: Spirit Mix
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Body Language: At A Glance (Toro Y Moi Remix)
Toro Y Moi: At A Glance

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