The side-project of Toro y Moi finds its way onto this list by some way of a detour. Now, I'm a big fan of that man and all his light soul and funk that really came into effect at the start of the decade but I heard Les Sins as a completely different artist on my favourite radio show; BBC Radio 6's Gilles Peterson and his weekly 3 hour extravaganza that "connects the musical dots."
I played music in a bar in Taipei about a year ago and there were a couple of Les Sins tracks that I dropped and I thought they were extremely funky and they came up in Traktor as being white labels so I thought it was some unknown stallion. I thought it was from London. I was wrong. It was the bull and me.
I just googled Les Sins before writing this and bang, it's Toro. Now by detour de force I'll wake up more to this South Carolinian master and this much richer project in terms of funk and diversity. It's full-fat dub, funk and hip-hop and this debut sounds mega. Soz Toro.
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