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TOYT 096EP
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Coeo have been traveling in Japan and discovered the magic of City Pop: that Japanese Disco movement of the 1980s. Back then there were amazing dance tracks coming out of Japan. Some with Japanese lyrics others with American vocals. Often so perfectly played and recorded that it's hard to tell if the music came out of NYC basement studios or for real Asiatic studio musicians. Coeo found a lot of rare jams and did edits for their DJ sets. Here, Toy Tonics put out a few of these rare jams and edits.
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TOYT 067EP
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COEO's pure hedonistic disco-ish attitude combines the funk-driven eclecticism of today and the curiosity of young music cats who always want to be ahead and a sense of quality in music that is absent in so many of today's house music productions. COEO are regularly on the top of the several deep house charts, and there is a reason: their tracks have a new, nasty, sexualized vibe that's inspired by the late 1990s French touch house or early Masters At Work productions. Flesh World is black music basically. It's booty sound. Disco for sure. Percussion jam remix by Kapote.
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TOYT 064EP
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The Toy Tonics crew is known for being addicted to two things: vintage music machines and old vinyl. 100% music aficionados. On the Tonic Edit series, the crew shares some of their favorite old tracks -- in a reworked version. This time COEO destroys a couple of '70s disco jams. Recut and re-pasted, they gave them their special COEO touch. Of course it's irresistible! Vinyl only.
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TOYT 046EP
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COEO are to the Toy Tonics label what Masters at Work were to '90s house; they bring soul to house music. Back in the Days could have been made in 1997 by Sneak, Dimitri from Paris, or Lil Louis. But similarities to Berlin's sample-house scene and artists like Max Graef and Hodini are also evident. COEO's hit "Native Riddim," released digitally in 2014 and included here as a vinyl-only bonus, features some heavy jazz samples from COEO's parents' soul collection. It was number-one in the Traxsource charts for several weeks and has impressed everyone from Laurent Garnier to Tensnake.
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