Last night the Ruby Suns and Toro y Moi, two of indie-electronica's leading glow sticks, gave Chop Suey a night of sleepy dance number and then—a surprise wake up call.

First was Toro y Moi, the adorably shy alter ego of South Carolina's Chaz Bundwick. He rarely looked at the audience and cloaked his voice in washed out reverb. Switching between his laptop and guitar, Chaz concocted dreamy suites that built impressively, but never quite took off.  Throughout his set, Chaz flirted with system rumbling house music but it was unclear if house music even knew he existed.

Delayed for hours because of a torrentail snow fall in Snoqualimine, Ruby Suns got off to an understandably groggy start. But after a low key rendition of Mingus and Pike (A song frontman Ryan Mcphun wrote on Seattle's own Pike Street while dog sitting a mutt named after Charles Mingus), McPhun switched from guitar to two toms and launched into a racous version of Sea Lion's "Kenya Dig It."

The drum heavy number woke up the crowd and set the tone for the rest of the night: driving beats and acrobatic stickwork.



During a re-arranged version of "O Mojave," all three band members took out drum sticks and got a celebratory polyrythm going. It was the night's most ecstatic moment and the crowd moved more during those four minutes than at the Suns' last two Seattle shows combined. This was probably due to McPhun's new backing band, a tighter ensemble that have re-arranged most of the Ruby Suns' songs, adjusting star gazing moments that, while pleasing on record, lose a dancing crowd.