carbon:file is a curated mix series highlighting the diverse soundscapes of independent and rising artists. The element carbon is essential for life and so should all creative voices be celebrated.

Our second installment comes from Tovar; who shares his sound of emotional grooves and vocal warmth. He leads us on a soulful path that solidifies movement and commands your undivided attention.

Soundcloud : @dominic-tovar-1
Instagram: @dominic.a.tovar

carbon:file 2 - Tovar

Los Angeles-shaped, Cleveland-rooted 
groove scientist and sound emoter (^*^)~

Bookings/inquiries: 
Email: agraybe@gmail.com
IG: @agraybe

selector and curator. 
est. los.angeles, 2000s?


I feel most human when I feel the most. When my emotions are intense, I feel most alive. When I love passionately, laugh heartily, cry freely, or hurt deeply... I feel so humanly alive and when I feel most alive, I am most filled with gratitude that I get to feel at all.

LA | Germany | East Asia

techno | dub | dnb | breaks | jungle

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Tovar is a LA-born and raised househead whose style is inspired by soul, disco, and Afro house. With love and respect for the pioneers of Chicago and Detroit house music, his sets invigorate classic house. 

Not that the genre needed it.

Tovar heads and curates ‘Otherly Love,’ a quarterly mix series thick with thumpin’ love songs and other soulful oddities.

carbon:file 2 - Tovar

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