Paper has been pushing the creative envelope since 1994.

"Sometimes tracks are just too good to leave alone, so we asked the Paper family of artists if there were any bits of the catalogue they wanted to remix. Recycled is the result. Big hitters, underground bubblers, forgotten gems and leftfield wobblers all get re-rubbed and re-imagined for dancefloors far and wide".

Last Knockers edit - a great unwinding remix of Chris Todd (Hot Toddy) and Jim Baron's band project 'Crazy P', who have been releasing on Paper Recordings since the early 1996.

Crazy P - Last Knockers (Mr Tea Remix) [Paper Recordings] <Gouranga Premiere>

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A Vehicle Mind is the first is a series of three EPs from San Francisco's Mr Tea, who is making a name for himself as one of the best house producers around today.

J As In Giraffe is an absolute beast. Heads down acid, nailed to the floor 4/4 drums, a warped sample, the track subtly builds to the break when an arp is introduced and the club kicks off big sticks. Make no mistake, this is A-grade peak time DJ dynamite.

Desire is all about Wonder, who brings some heavy sleazy heat to the super-deep beats and production. Synths, subs and tripped out percussion take it big room and late night.

Dreams of Angels is a slice of sublime house music that is probably best played as the morning sun breaks through the club windows as that last rush takes things into the cosmos.

Mr. Tea - J As In Giraffe [Paper Recordings] <Gouranga Premiere>

David Shaw and The Beat - Infected (Max Pask Remix)

Let's Flunck (dub)

Download/Vinyl/Stream: 
https://toy-tonics.lnk.to/GommaDancefloorGemsVol1

Toy Tonics presents GOMMA DANCEFLOOR GEMS VOL.1
It’s all about Y2K, Punkfunk and Indie Disco!
Toy Tonics record brings a collection of tracks originally released on the German GOMMA RECORDS label between 2001 and 2010. Gomma was one of the key labels of the Y2K indie dance wave along with labels like James Murphy’s DFA and Trevor Jackson’s OUTPUT Records. And as the 90ies revival that dominated the last years in fashion and electronic music reached its peak (Techno and Electronica is pure 90s revival music) the Toy Tonics gang thought it’s a good moment to re-mind some of these early 2000’s tracks that connected a more raw, indie disco and punky funk vibe. It was another energy in those party days. Gomma was happening in Berlin off-location clubs like SCALA and RIO, London’s TRASH or 333 parties and Paris KILL THE DJ and PARIS PARIS clubs. 

Those Y2K clubs and the Gomma label brought together 80ies inspired Indie rock artists like NickMcCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (who was producing records on Gomma before getting world-famous) and Electro punk princess Peaches (who did a whole Disco album on Gomma records and is featured on this compilation with a cover of „Maniac“ from the Flashdance movie soundtrack). Italian disco legends like Baldelli or Robotnick were popping up in those times after years of silence (before getting hype again later) as well as Gomma’s own discoveries like WhoMadeWho (their first 2 albums were quite punk funky and produced by Gomma’s head honcho Mathias Modica), Italian disco punkster Rodion, Parisian nasty funk dude Golden Bug, London’s mysterious prince of new wave prince Midnight Mike (who started at Gomma and later ended up on Ed Banger records) and Gomma’s main act Munk. And yes, there is even DJ Severino, who did a proto house remix for the label in the early Horse Meat Disco days.
That raw and nasty Gomma sound that mixed up many genres and made it's own sexy, in your face music mélange that was very in demand in those days from 2000 to 2010 and inspired many artists. Not just music people like James Murphy, who did music with Gomma before, starting his own LCD Soundsystem, or bands like Chromeo, New Young Pony Club or Soulwax, who started later with a similar vibe, but also art, graphic and fashion people took inspiration from the Gomma world: Gomma’s edgy album cover designs, their poster fanzine, their colorful t-shirt designs and the whole style that the bands, DJs and people at their worldwide parties were rocking became a MUST all over the world. In the early 2000’s it was just art students from London’s Central St. Martins or Berlin’s UDK school that played that sound on their parties, later magazine like VICE or i - D invited Munk and the Gomma acts to their parties and later it was fashion brands like Prada, Margiela, Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane who used Gomma artists to make music at their fashion shows or events.
Gomma then in 2015 finally closed. When a lot of new labels popped up copying the Gomma attitude and styles (till these days).
Gomma’s head honcho and main inventor Mathias Modica stopped the whole thing, changed the name and started something new:  Toy Tonics records. Yes!
Toy Tonics came out of Gomma and that’s why now it’s time to remember the old inspirational days.
(Gomma’s other very important part was the graphic designer Mirko Borsche who created the whole Gomma look with Modica and Jonas Imbery the other Gomma member. Mirko Borsche since then made an exceptional career doing designs for fashion labels like Supreme and Balenciaga and being the creative director of magazines like ZEIT, Spike or Kaleidoskope.)
Mathias Modica aka Munk aka Kapote himself now is busy with Toy Tonics, which basically is bigger than Gomma ever was: Spreading a very own sound of organic house and disco funk. With party happenings all over Europe every weekend and a very young audience. 

Released 27.10.23

Munk - Androgyn

LOST HARD DRIVE LP
Unsigned stuff from the past, from an old hard drive lost in the attic !

Buy it : https://closedparadise.bandcamp.com/album/lost-hard-drive-lp

CLOSED PARADISE - HARD DRIVE

Iggy E-Vinyl Saints [Mutant Rebels]

The Set Up

Way back when Kraftwerk invented the very first machine, they never could have dreamt of how technology would go on to overwhelm our lives and turn us all into machine-dependent drones. Actually, maybe they did exactly that but we just decided not to listen. Either way, the revolution of the machine has well and truly taken place and we'll have to just spend from now until eternity bowing down to our new electronic overlords.

The Emperor Machines, if you will.

As we seek to find new ways to worship our glorious binarian leaders, the very best thing we can do is throw ourselves head-first into the machines and see what we can make of all their fancy features. They're actually not too bad once you get to know them and there's plenty of top quality music to be heard from them thar machines. Why don't you delve in and give it a try?

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PREMIERE: The Emperor Machine - Sisco Seeker (Nein Records)

eview: Tom Tom mainman Rossa sends back two bulletins from the furthest reaches of the (new) disco frontier, while Theus Mago, @Leonoroficial and Mijo provide a remix apiece. 'Man Zufuh' in its Original form is a slo-mo chugger with influences from both African music and 80s synth-pop, while Mago's remix ups the pace and adds a headnodding bassline, making this mix the more obvious pick for dancefloor play. The equally out-there 'Phanteon' comes on like a collision between minimal and cosmic disco, while a wonked-out rerub from Mijo takes us firmly into late-night territory and Leonor provides an atmospheric alternate take.

RICHARD ROSSA - PHANTEON (LEONOR REMIX)

The Miracles Club - U&Me (Discodromo remix)

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PREMIERE: The Emperor Machine - Sisco Seeker (Nein Records)

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