M.I.S. + Toy Selectah Announce Collaboration Album Compass Feat. Boy George, KOOL A.D. (Das Racist), Toots & The Maytals, Crystal Fighters, and more!

[Tasya Swisko]

MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND AND TOY SELECTAH
ANNOUNCE THEIR COLLABORATION PROJECT & ALBUM COMPASS

LP Featuring 80+ Artists Including The Iconic Boy George, Toots & The Maytals, Sly & Robbie, Rob Birch of Stereo MC's, MC Lyte, plus Crystal Fighters, Kool A.D. of Das Racist, and Cornelius

PRESS HERE<http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/6296967/compass-toy-selectah-camilo-lara-exclusive-boy-george-toots-maytals> to Watch the Trailer of the Making of Compass Exclusively via Billboard.com

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Compass is a forthcoming, star studded collaborative LP by renowned Mexico City based artist Mexican Institute of Sound (Camilo Lara) and DJ, producer and affiliate of Mad Decent Toy Selectah. Today, the two musicians have exclusively announced via Billboard.com that Compass will be released in early 2015, and will feature an impressive list of over 80 iconic and critically acclaimed artists including: Boy George, Toots & The Maytals, Sly & Robbie, Mc Lyte, Nina Sky, Crystal Fighters, Kool A.D. of Das Racist, Cornelius, and more!

Jetting around the world over the last year, Toy and Camilo recorded the project with various artists at select Red Bull Studios in Los Angeles, New York, London, and São Paulo (Brazil), plus conducted recording sessions in Monterrey and Mexico City (Mexico), Kingston (Jamaica), Tokyo (Japan), Beijing (China) and New Delhi (India).

PRESS HERE<http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/code/6296967/compass-toy-selectah-camilo-lara-exclusive-boy-george-toots-maytals> to watch the video trailer of the making of Compass via Billboard.com.
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The worldwide recording is fitting to the fact the album covers such a vast array of genres of music, including electronic, urban, reggae, hip-hop, dance and even punk elements. Toy and Camilo’s monster vision for the album started as a passion years ago when the two wanted to work together with musicians they had always admired, but were a bit outside the DJ realm. "This project has been a mystical quest trying to prove that there is only one dance floor across the globe,” says Camilo. “Couldn’t have found a better partner in crime than Toy for it.​"
For the artists who collaborated on Compass it effortlessly became such an amazing experience, since they too stepped outside their “normal” recording zone and discovered new strengths of their own within the process. “This album is like our PHD thesis on global music production,” says Toy.

The LP’s release will be accompanied by an extensive world tour (tour dates to be announced soon), plus a five-episode web series produced by Red Bull Media House who captured the entire recording process. The web series will feature exclusive behind the scenes footage, interviews and more.

Camilo and Toy over the years have produced numerous projects together, including the groundbreaking album by Los Angeles Azules entitled Cómo Te Voy a Olvidar. Cómo Te Voy a Olvidar is the #1 album in Mexico for a record breaking total of 72 weeks and was nominated for a GRAMMY Award in 2014.

About:

Mexican Institute of Sound/Camilo Lara

Camilo Lara is the founder of Mexican Institute of Sound (M.I.S) and has released 4 albums since its formation in early 2000. His music is a visionary mixture that flirts with electronic, hip-hop, dub, cumbia and punk. M.I.S. has performed at such major music festivals as Coachella, Lollapalooza and Roskilde. Last year Camilo curated a radio station for the video game Grand Theft Auto V. He has collaborated with artists such as: Tom Tom Club, Placebo, Beastie Boys, Morrissey and Esquivel. His music is part of dozens of films and television series, including a GRAMMY nomination for the Y Tu Mamá También soundtrack.

Toy Selectah

Globetrotter, DJ, Producer and visionary, Toy has established a hybrid sound of Latin and world rhythms. As a pioneer and essential character of the new Mexican and Latin American music scene, Toy started out as a DJ and Producer of the critically lauded hip hop outfit Control Machete. Toy has worked with all kinds of artists including: Morrissey, Vampire Weekend, Major Lazer, Calle 13, Eminem and Bloodhound Gang. Toy is a key character in of the birth and explosion of hip hop and tribal (3Ball) in Mexico, as well as reggaeton and electronica in Latin America.


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