Leonard Charles Joins Forces with The King of The Boogie Leroy Burgess for "NINE LIVES" (Wonderful Noise/From The Crate Records)
Jeremy Toy is an extremely talented singer, song-writer, multi-instrumentalist, and producer hailing from Auckland, New Zealand . Toy has an Indie-Pop/Shoegaze band called She's So Rad with his wife, Anji and also, moonlights as "Basement" Funk originator Leonard Charles . Although, he's been recording and self-releasing music as Leonard Charles for quite a few years now, his 2016 Basement Donuts album is what really first pinged on our radar; an expansive 31-track album, Basement Donuts is a stylistic re-imagining of J Dilla 's magnum opus and final record, Donuts , on its 10th anniversary. Charles has since released an unofficial cover of Madlib, M.E.D. & Blu 's "The Turn Up" and ALL NIGHT LONG EP with Reggie Blunt & Jellphonic , as well as one-off collaborations with fellow Kiwis , Team Dynamite and long-time Dilla affiliate, Guilty Simpson . Leonard & Guilty first teamed up for "BREAKING OVER YOU," which was ...