Download / Stream: https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/Italianissimo

It’s Italian time! Sam Ruffillo is back. Sicilian producer doing smooth Balearic disco with Italian vocals. The direction is clear: Sam Ruffillo's music brings us back into the Italian riviera and the hippy days of Ibiza in the late 1970ies. Even his way of production is similar to how the early days disco producers in Italia used to work: No samples needed. Instead a few guest musicians come to jam over Sam's beats in his Italian studio space. Guitar, bass, percussions. Sam later makes the production and added keyboard solos and put together the vibes into what is this new EP.

The girl voice comes from NINFA. It’s the classic studio story: Ninfa is a singer and DJ and friend of Sam. She was hanging at the studio while Sam was finishing these tracks. She stated to sing along... the words came up spontaneously… so they decided to record her and finally decided to keep them. The vibe was too good. Why talk English if u can do it better: in Italian! :)

This is second for Toy Tonics after his Sport House EP from last year. Sam also appeared on the solo record of Joel Holmes on Toy Tonics. Together with Kapote Modica he co-produced and made the beats on that record. Now Sam is back with this pure Italian EP. Inclusive remixes by new German artists Gome and Italian Musemeci - known to many from his fabulous Italo-trance releases on Diynamic records.

Sam Ruffillo - Danza Organica (Musumeci Remix)

Download / Vinyl / Stream: https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/FlexTrax

The new Toy Tonics EP comes from a kid called Ivan. Digital Ivan. From Moscow. Ivan is 21, just finished school, but is already a regular DJ in Moscow’s underground party scene. Known for creating an ecstatic energy with a big sense of funk when DJing. And his first 4 tracks have that vibe! High Energy & New Wave Disco bombs.

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Digital Ivan - I Want To Dance (Jex Opolis '89 Mix)

Gorillaz - On Melancholy Hill - (Ray Mang Remix)

Honoured to have the legendary Larry Heard on board with this fantastic re-mix!

Black Paint

Moodymanc Black Paint (Larry Heard's After Dark Mix)-Tsuba051

Genius Of Time - Houston We Have A Problem (Original Mix)

Here is the debut EP from Manchester producers Tom Lonsboroough and Col Hamilton, known as 2 Billion Beats with the Musics Alfresco EP.


Things kick things off with the uptempo ‘The Moodymann’, a funk fuelled cut of bottom heavy laden disco house. Retro synth bass with an acidic twist, rolling house rhythms and keys create a melodic yet dancefloor orientated vibe and a slightly old school feel. 

Next up, ‘Secret Sub Disco’ journeys into more laid back disco territory with layers of melody washing over bubbling bass and relaxed rhythms to create a decidedly chilled vibe with some added in some acidic arpeggiated lines. 

Finally 2 Billion Beats deliver ‘Lunar’, a deep and delightful slice of balaeric tinged house built around bass stabs, breaks and a rolling Rhodes key loop.

Bonar Bradberry : Sub disco is the one! 

Craig Smith (6th Borough Project) : Can see this working well in the clubs, The Moodyman and Secret Sub Disco are my faves.

Charles Webster : Secret Sub Disco is my fave here.

Scope :  This is fucking serious!! 

Aldrin Zouk :  Fab package! Secret Sub Disco being my fav cut.

Leftside Wobble : Most definitely feeling both Secret Sub Disco &amp; Lunar

Q Burns :  Lovely! All 3 tracks do the business

Jim Stanton (Horsemeat Disco) : The Moodymann &amp; Lunar hit it! Yes going to play this tonight.

Justin Robertson : The Moodymann is mega!

Billy Scurry : Solid release, from peak time dance floor to afterhours beach parties.

Rocky (X-Press 2) :  Nice groovy deepness, Lunar my fave.

Murray Richardson : The Moodymann makes me want to dance a lot!

Claudio Coccoluto : Secret Sub Disco for me.

Mic Newman : Nice deep package, Secret Sub Disco and Lunar are my favs.

James Teej (Rekids) : Diggin all three cuts, Lunar is amazing.

Chicken Lips : Secret Sub Disco is alreet by me!

Ryan Cananagh (Wolf + Lamb) : Wow, very nice release. Will definitely play all of these!



2 Billion Beats - The Moodymann

Tapped in with a comrade from Comrade Collective for a conversation on art, liberation, and the music that moves us. Weaving through sounds from Jack J, Chippy Nonstop, Sophia Stel, and more—deep cuts, local favorites, all in good company. Thanks for listening, always. Love.

Originally aired on CFUV 101.9fm on February 27th, 2025

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Born Slippy (Alma & Mater Edit)

Full Pupp helps another new outfit into the saddle. Even though esteemed norwegian DJ Ole Martin Vilberg aka Omar V and Robin Craaford, one half of Dance Disorder with Baby G ( Bpitch, Eskimo ) are hardly young guns, they gang up together for the first time on "complete": a blinding cut that harks back to the time with good ol Jack was still the young buck and closely associated with uncle Electro Funk: tough beats, hyperactive claps, a jittering bass and a catchy, squeaking melody are still rattling bones if masterfully pieced together as it is done here.	Out june 2012 on vinyl and digitally!!

Robin C & Omar V - Complete - Full Pupp 12"

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The eight chapter of the infamous Slow Motion Compilation series, “Italian Dance Wave Disco Otto”, has quite some hidden gems to be discovered. Beginning with a track from Marcello Giordani DJ (half of the duo Marvin & Guy), that expresses a perfect Italian melancholic sunset (as the title also states), energetic, strong, but always poetic. Always following that “beachy” vibes we find The Caribbean House, serving a track that could last a century, and we would never mind. Electro hints mixing with deep and balearic vibes: ears glued to the headphones. Moreover, we have again Slow Motion queen, System Olympia with a track that could make even nuns sweat on the dance floor: beats and bass to die for. To close this chapter, you can pamper your ears with a angry balearic track from Gallo, not suited for the more weak hearts, that’s for sure.

System Olympia - Scandalous - Italian Dance Wave (Disco Otto)

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