Name: AAW004 - An Afternoon with Muscle Beach - Vol. 4 by Muscle Beach
Duration: 56 min 46 s
Description: Knocking gently on your door, this is volume 4

Always coming at ya for free, just like volume 3

AAW003 - An Afternoon with Muscle Beach - Vol. 3

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

Toy Tonics comes up with a new house record by an artist by FIMIANI aka BPlan. DJ and producer from Napoli / Italia that has already been doing edits of extremely rare Italian disco tracks since three years on his own imprint Caffè Corretto. 
FIMIANI’s “Amore Latino“ EP is his debut as a producer, is all played live, no samples and consist of 4 house tracks that remind the early 1990ies New York house sound of Masters at Work, François Kevorkian or legendary Body & Soul club. Based on rolling funk grooves using a lot of jazzy piano chords, organs, real bass players and horns. This stuff is super musically and listenable also at home.
FIMIANI who comes from the region of Napoli, (or better the beautiful island of Ischia) is not only an edit maestro and skilled producer, but organized a summer house festival. He knows the history and is deeply inspired by the Italian house scene from the mid 1980ies/ 1990ies. 
People who know the history of dance music will be aware that the house is an Italo-Amercacn „invention“. Italians not only created the music called Italo disco, that was the big inspiration for many (American) dance music producers of the 1980ies and 90ies. The Italians also created the blueprint for what later became House music.
The original house music producers in Chicago always told the story of how they were impressed by the Italian sounds from 1981 - 1986. HOT MIX 5, the DJs that basically started the house genre and the term “house music” were playing the early Italian electronic dance records and got inspired by them for doing their own music later. Kano’s “It’s a War” or “Dirty Talk” and “MBO Theme” from Klein & MBO, “I Need Love” from Capricorn, “Love-N-Music” from Ris, “Dance Forever” from Gaucho and many other Italian records from the early 1980ies made their way to Chicago (and New York) and were one of the reasons the Chicago DJ to start to produce their own first electronic dance music, as they told this themselves in many interviews. The American DJs bought the same early electronic machines and were inspired by these Italian records. These mid 1980ies early Chicago productions then were played at the Warehouse club and ended up being called House Music.
That sound later influenced many New York producers of the 1990ies and also many Italian producers who, in the 1990ies created their own versions of the Chicago genre and called it “Italo-House”. This strong connection between Italo house and American house can be also seen in the fact that many American house DJs found a second home in Italy where house music became sort of mainstream in the late 1980 and 1990ies. 
Thanks to national-wide radios like Radio DEEJAY who were turning club hits into mainstream anthems, and thanks to party promoters like Angels of Love in Napoli or the Italian pioneers of the House parties in Rimini & Riccione Like Vae Victis, Echoes and the party Magic Monday, where American house producers found a second home. DJs like David Morales were living in Italy and artists like Tony Humphries or Masters at Work played at national radio and had hit singles in Italy - while still being underground in other European countries.
House is an Italo-American affair, and Fimiani is a late example of this perfect union.

Released: 21.07.2023

Fimiani - Amore Latino

gome: Elevator Man (Mike Dunn BlackBall Remix)
Taken from Elevator Man EP

Download/Stream: https://gome.lnk.to/Elevator-Man

Release date: 2023-07-28
Uploaded to Soundcloud by gome
Represented by Frills GmbH, Berlin (https://www.frills.de)
ISRC: DEBY41200672
Distributed by K7 Music
℗ & © 2021 Toy Tonics
 
Written and produced by Robin Townshend, Julian Marks
Remix by Mike Dunn

Elevator Man

gome - Elevator Man (Mike Dunn BlackBall Remix)

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

Toy Tonics welcome one of the US’ absolute legends in the game on their roster - Kai Alcé!  One of the original masters of jazzy house, Kai is a prime example of someone who witnessed the genesis of Detroit’s electronic musical landscape and strives to keep that spirit alive. Being of Haitian descent laid the foundation for his musical ear, starting with his childhood in Queens, New York. Some of his earliest musical influences included his mother’s penchant for soca music and the distinct Caribbean rhythms of his culture. An appreciation of Jazz would be further guided by his father’s expanding audiophile home system. During the 1970s the kindling of Hip Hop and the heyday of Disco perked the ear of a young Kai while they were living in NYC. The Big Apple would remain a constant throughout his musical journey as the years went on, but it was the move to Michigan that ultimately shaped his artistic vision.

On this 5 track EP Kai once again makes it all feel so easy! Deeply musical, yet also instantly effective on the dance floor, tracks like ‘New Life Livin’ and ‘Slide It In’ come with an ease that shows why he’s shaped the game for decades.

Released: 21.08.23

Kai Alcé - New Life Livin

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

Toy Tonics signed Gee Lane also known as Virginie. Her debut Metamorphosis EP (with remixes by Demi Riquísimo and Divorce From New York Remix & PIEK will come out in October. 
Gee Lane is a Venezuelan DJ and vinyl digger based in Barcelona. Gee Lane has been djing with the Toy Tonics Krew already for more than a year now. Kids who go to dance to the Toy Tonics Jam happenings around Europe might have seen her jamming with Kapote and the TT krew and spreading her fabulous music with an extremely positive energy and attitude. Gee Lane is a unique personality with a very strong style (in music but also as a person) and very elaborated ability to read and play with the dancers. Now she delivers her first ever EP. Recorded in Barcelona and Berlin with a little help by Robin Braum from Athlete Whippet. And it reflects well her roots and passion for everything what came out from New York in sense of dance culture. You can hear influences from the 80‘ promo disco scenes as well as the 1990 Body & Soul/ Francois Kervorkian ä/ Joe Claussell universe. In fact Gee Lane after being raised in Cara as and musically educated by her father from a very early age, (a composer and musician) she moved to New York at a very young age in the late 90's where she fell in love with the HOUSE scene. And especially everything that happened at the famous and influential ’Body & Soul’ club.

This culture increased her curiosity to become a DJ (and vinyl digger herself) who is not just interested in house music but wants to explore other genres such as funk , Hip-Hop , jazz and Latin sounds and include these vibes into her DJ sets. A vinyl collector (and long time record shop employee) since then, she is known for her musical eclecticism that leads her to mix everything what she wants ...

Besides her DJ activity she is the host of the radio show: Table For Two on Radio d59b (Belgrade/Berlin).  

Gee Lane now is a steady member of the Toy Tonics Krew and is already playing the Toy Tonics Jams all around Europe. A second EP is in the making.

On remix duty on this EP: Demi Riquísimo and Divorce From New York & PIEK.

Released 28.08.23

Gee Lane - Neon Beach

Jimpster makes a welcome return to Delusions, donning his Franc Spangler cap and serving up three funked-up, disco-infused tracks to get down to.

BUY:
https://delusionsofgrandeurrec.bandcamp.com/
https://www.traxsource.com/title/2086984/fight-the-feeling

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PREMIERE: Franc Spangler - Fight The Feeling [Delusions Of Grandeur]

Gotta keep on EP
Label - Frappé Records
Released - 29th September 2023
BUY FROM - https://frapperecords.bandcamp.com/album/gotta-keep-on

Support --
Frappé Records 
INSTA : https://www.instagram.com/frappe.label/ 
SC : https://soundcloud.com/frapperecords

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Angels EP
Label - To The Rock
Released - 26th October 2023
BUY FROM - https://www.traxsource.com/title/2100914/Angels

House Music will always remain a force to be reckoned with, and with groups like the House Gospel Choir setting new standards, that statement will continue to reverberate through the essences that make up life for a long time to come. Their new release on LDN label “To The Rock” is testament to the group's endearing and beautiful approach to making House a Home - and with it, a keeping alive of spirits both old and new….

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PREMIERE: House Gospel Choir Feat. MORGAN - Angels (2fox DISCO REPRISE)

My set recorded from the Defected Basement in October 2023, available also on the Glitterbox YouTube channel to watch.

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This boot was made in 2016 the year he passed, RIP...

[FREE DOWNLOAD] A Tribe Called Quest - Stressed Out Ft. Faith Evans (Nick Garcia Edit)

Knocking gently on your door, this is volume 4

AAW004 - An Afternoon with Muscle Beach - Vol. 4

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