Toyboy & Robin

What is there to say about the most effortlessly pleasing act of 2013?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gvyk2-H81-8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmqTlTeZAaQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iOCIYqkgsE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1J29RlhCSTA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBxWp0Bh3FU&hd=1

"jaded" is class

"Artful Dodger meets Kaito" is such a simple and charming equation I am surprised it hasn't been adopted by every musician ever.

sold

love that first track

oh m an

I could watch 10 hours of that "jaded" video

Same.

Jaded is brilliant yeah, I'd never heard of the other remixes so it hadn't occurred to me they were anything more than an excellent one-off.

THIS TOO:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Y2pCpt0w0g

That Quadron remix :) Positivity y'all. I just wanna dance, etc.

oh my god, these are amazing, how did i not even know about these people before

"jaded" is so good

SO GOOD

like, royal-t's "cool down" kind of good

tim where did you find these people? i hadn't even seen their name prior to this thread

They did a Mixmag mix the other month as well, kind of right in the sweet spot between the Black Butter stable and the beachier end of Hot Creations, George Fitzgerald etc.

http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive-music/download-toyboy--robin

Yeah, was gonna post that. It's definitely hits focussed, but a nice selection of big tracks this year.

DJ Q, I'm guessing is the answer from Tim.

that lana del rey remix is damn good as well

Yeah DJ Q plays "Jaded" a lot.

It and Drums of Death' "True" are my 2013 sweet house jams, but I think you're all over "True" already.

kinda surprised by "true" as a choice, i like it a lot but gorgon city & yasmin's "real" and the collected works of lulu james are my top house trax

Well "Real" was totally my jam during the first half of the calendar year.

of black butter stuff i like "thin lines" the best, "real" is good tho

ive been missing all this stuff bc work cant believe i first heard the words 'black butter' from a PITCHFORK ARTICLE

http://www.sherv.net/cm/emoticons/hello/waving-hat-smiley-emoticon.gif

https://soundcloud.com/toyboyrobin/jaded-vip

includes free download

Damn, I don't use Facebook.

Sounds good though!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9VWkdK1CC4

Realized last night that Jaded is on that MoS deep house comp, which is why it sounded so familiar

goddammit tim

*dances through spacetime*

This is my blatant attempt to get at least one song into the ILX 2013 Poll.

fuck this is IT rn

terrible name, terrible dancing, terrible song

saccharine

much prefer dusky's "careless" ;-)

^^^^ the opinion of notable "tropical" enthusiast the late great

haha!

was going to make a doc daneeka joke but i didn't think it was particularly topical

i like artful dodger. i still have my copy of "rewind 2001"! and i like kaito too, so i feel entitled to an opinion.

i will say that i was a little surprised by how on the nose this was a tim pick when he sent it to me. has there been perhaps a little holding pattern as we've crested thirty?? lol

In truth I feel slightly ambivalent about having singled out this tune as a standalone thing when it is really best understand in the context of the great conundrum that is DJ Q's 2013 Ministry of Sound sets.

have you heard "careless" cause it's really good

Careless is sort of a subdued version of Jaded, isn't it? Like a Jaded light or something.

exactly

...saccharine free garage.

delicious

god this lana del rey remix has just blown the track open for me

I'M FEELING ELECTRIC TONIGHT

Yeah how good is it!

It was that track that made me feel like these guys have life beyond an inspired one-off.

There's a dance remix of "Summertime Sadness" that plays on the radio all the time here, and I keep thinking it has none of the fleet-footed lift of this version.

The one that was a huge hit I presume? So weird, that. I actually like it in an odd way but this is certainly how it shouldve been

Haha was it a huge hit? I wouldn't even know anymore. It seemed alright but very trudging and enervated compared to this.

i love this song so much

I need a script that autofinds and bookmarks threads created by Tim F.

http://www.mixmag.net/music/exclusive-music/premiere-toyboy--robin

nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0NdXNuGlrM

Because it's Friday.

Really, really want these guys to just whack out an album now without thinking too hard about it because they're in in that magical zone where everything is golden.

Their new EP is so good.

oh it really is, the lead track especially!

Cosign all of that.

wow the first song off this is unreal good

"Back & Forth" should be as big as "Jaded".

https://soundcloud.com/maria-cherneckaya/toyboy-robin-dont-stop

Old but bangs

"Back & Forth" should be as big as "Jaded" "Need U (100%)"

Fixed.

i wish "jaded" had been big in any sense outside ilm!

It's a bit more successful than their other songs, so I'm assuming it got at least a bit of traction outside of ILX.

Given the current climate I'm really surprised they don't get more 1xtra love.

they're going to be on Target's show next Friday - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0403k6d

here's the B2B:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01xp8yp

"Feel It" is unsurprisingly really good.

<3 <3 <3 https://soundcloud.com/toyboyrobin/feel-it-dub

i will say that i was a little surprised by how on the nose this was a tim pick when he sent it to me. has there been perhaps a little holding pattern as we've crested thirty?? lol

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lol i've been overdosing on these guys this morning and the deeper you sink into their sets interviews etc the deeper the conviction that these guys really and truly are the official ilx golden girls retirement home resident djs. it's actually kinda ridiculous!!

like it's not even "club djs play the hits, big deal" but there's just so many personal innate fave fruity fluoro melodijams that we've <3'd en passant on threads/vibes they've never quite been directly relevant to or been key drivers of that they have featured and foregrounded. they're like the single eureka reference point that brings together the pop moodboard all around u, it's great, really addictive

the singular x factor that they have i think is the tracky, sinuous, serpentine groove they weave tend to weave into this stuff, much more of an in-the-pocket lithe n lissom techno funk vibe than their chunkier peers

A little burst of activity on their soundcloud recently, this remix of K. Michelle being the highlight:
https://soundcloud.com/thump/k-michelle-love-em-all-toyboy-robin-remix

omg my dreams coming true

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma6YIqJwuMg

not really new but bumping this one lately:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79sCNg8HIa8

randomly found while looking for this cute shift k3y-produced kstewart song:

https://soundcloud.com/kstewartmusic/keeping-you-up-with-shift-k3y

I wish dance music producers would stay away from Sams.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxu3aON81ks

😍

This is a big step up on their last EP but Gyptian is not really bringing his a-game here. I suppose they're getting an arsenal of festival jams together and I totally get why they're doing it but I miss the fizz and exuberance of the first few tunes.