It’s hard not to hear a Torro Torro track or remix played at festivals and parties around the world. The duo knows exactly how to create a perfect brand of dance music that’s influenced by hip hop and tropical rhythms.
Based out of Toronto, the duo of Mike (“Digits”) Gonek and Evan “Yo Ev” Norton, met simply by a mutual friend. Mike says, “We had a mutual friend who told me Evan wanted to start a project. I had been involved in a bunch of different production projects prior to Torro Torro and, like Evan, I was looking for something where I could really get my hands dirty on deejaying and the production side of electro and house music. When our friend introduced us to one another, we kinda just clicked.”
Both studying at the University of Toronto, the two explored the world of dance music production. Evan, “Out of the gate, we were both learning the craft of electronic production. At that point, it was two heads going into the studio, and spending a lot of hours trying to navigate through the experience of producing, seeing what formulas worked, and crafting our own sound. Now, we’ve come to the point where there’s a certain balance between the two of us working together in the studio, and each of us spending our own time to craft ideas and find stuff that we’d like to share and hone in on once we’re back together.”
The two first started turning heads in 2009 with their remix of Barletta’s “Panther” and of AutoErotique’s “Gladiator.” Always bringing the same high intensity big room sound that keeps crowds asking for more, their track “Knockin Boots,” released on Tittsworth’s T&A Records, was a certified electro banger being played on dance floors around the world.
Lately, 2013 saw Torro Torro return with three chart topping remixes, one for Interscope Records and two others released on Ultra Music. Opening the year with their remix of “Bless Di Nation” for Congorock and Sean Paul, the two are still riding high from their massive remixes for Zedd’s “Clarity” and Zeds Dead’s “Cowboy,” which both sat near the top of the Beatport charts for weeks after their respective releases.
We’re excited to have our boots knocked by Torro Torro when they perform at Club Cirque in Tampa, FL on Saturday, October 19th. Have you bought your tickets yet?
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