🆔 2023.10 | indie dance. synthpop. disco. | Indie Discotheque

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The 14 tracker will land via Berlin’s Toy Tonics label and glides from disco to jazz, house and funk and features key collaborations with the likes of Jitwam, Eliza Rose, Zeitgeist Freedom Energy Exchange & his close friends. After having met Mathias Kapote Modica, creative mind behind Germany’s well respected Toy Tonics label three years ago, East London born Cody Currie understood Kapote and his international TT Crew have the perfect understanding for his talents and share the same visions and so Cody joined the TT crew and released three EPs with the German label. Now finally he steps up to present his highly anticipated debut album ‘Lucas’. The 14 track LP is set for release 21 October 2022, with a string of pre-singles to drop until then. The roots of Cody’s artistry runs deep, hailing from Leytonstone in East London by his father a fashion designer and his Spanish mother a music writer, it was inevitable that Cody would follow suit in the world of creativity. Curries keen ear and penchant for retro disco licks, chopped keys, and broken beats have landed him also with 1 off releases on other notable labels like Razor-N-Tape, Dan Shake’s Shake Records. The past few years Cody found himself in the midst of a fresh and unique buzz, taking over Europe, predominantly in Berlin and London, as he bridges the gap between jazz and house music with his energetic DJ sets, talented instrumental skills and effortless swag. Playing the big Toy Tonics Jam happening all over Europe and similar to other artists on the TT label‘connecting the dots’ between live and electronic music has garnered Cody a range of support in the press and radio world with fans including Pete Tong, Rolling Stone, Jamz Supernova, Mixmag and Gilles Peterson, with some journalists describing him as "The Tom Misch of jazzy house". This debut album, like his EPs, represents the new essence of jazz burgeoning out of London’s youth scene of today. Cody doesn't use any samples, only live instruments, vocals and great chord combinations, a nod towards his music school studies in London before moving over to Berlin. Like most of the other artists on Toy Tonics and similar to Kapote himself, Cody comes from playing jazz piano and playing in bands and combines this real musician’s attitude and knowledge with his skills as an electronic producer and extremely talented DJ/selector. This combination of background and skills create that unique sound that Cody (and many Toy Tonics artists) have. On Lucas, Cody defines his work by enjoying the collaborative process with other talented artists such as Eliza Rose and Ziggy(Freedom Zeitgeist Energy Exchange), as well as some of Cody’s close personal friends like Jitwam, Ally McMahon, Andreas Konand more. Currie comments on the album, saying:“Lucas LP is a collection of tracks which I've either done myself around the world recording in different places, or collaborating with my friends. The music reflects my enjoyment of the musical process, and I'd say it’s inspired a lot by George Duke and Frank Zappa, the disco and funkier stuff from the 70s and 80s. Some tracks are quite deep and introspective, whilst other ones are more fun and silly, like ‘That Stick’. Ultimately, the album focuses on artists from
everywhere around the world with different backgrounds and styles, to see what we can create together!”–Cody Currie

released 28.10.2022
www.toytonics.de

Cody Currie - Starwoman

Signature Moves

Dark Celebration

Fur Trade - Monaco

Shaka - Hot Ingredients 
Four Flowers EP
Quintessentials
Quintessentials 86
Release date: 07-April-23
Buy: https://quintessentials.bandcamp.com

It’s about time for the first release of this true master of deep jazzy house, Shaka! Shaka has an
impressive list of releases, ranging back to the mid 90’s with some raw techno up to now with releases
on Local Talk or his own label Vibes and Grooves for some serious deep house. His „Four flowers EP“
has plenty of soul soothing jazz-funk grooves nailed to a deep house beat and you just feel that Shaka
is a real musician. And we agree, these 4 tracks are hot ingredients!

HSM PREMIERE | Shaka - Hot Ingredients [Quintessentials]

A2. Melchior Sultana - I Wanna Go Back (Ft. Janelle Pulo)

Interiors

Evacuation

'Embrace', out now on Counter Records: https://roosevelt.lnk.to/embraceSo

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Embrace

Alive

BLACK MOONLIGHT

Deep Side of the Day EP
Label - Sulaco
Released - 1st September 2023
Format - Very Ltd Vinyl
BUY FROM - https://sulaco-deep-house.bandcamp.com/album/deep-side-of-the-day-8-lathe-cut-single

James emerged as a prominent figure on the scene in 2009. His debut track, "She's Gone," (James-johnston – Shes-gone-45-edit-256) swiftly climbed to the top of Soundcloud's "Most Popular Deep House Tracks Of All Time" chart, catching the attention of Kolour Recordings' offshoot ‘Undertones.' The highly acclaimed 'Honesty EP' followed soon after.
James constantly delivered high quality grooves for subsequent releases on esteemed underground house labels like 4lux, Wilson, 124 Recordings, Brother's Vibe's Mixx Records, Snazzy Trax, Dikso, and Washerman's Deep Down Slam. He has also had the honour of remixing the legendary Robert Owens twice!
In 2016 James co-founded the ‘No Matter What' label alongside fellow house producer Alex Agore. The label's debut release became an instant hit, with James's track, ‘I Know It's Not Time' storming into the top 10 of the most charted tracks by other DJs on Resident Advisor. Their subsequent releases soared to the top of the Juno vinyl House Chart, cementing their reputation for excellence.

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VINYL

PREMIERE: JAMES JOHNSTON - NEON SUPERSAX [Sulaco]

Ismistik - Woodvibe (1994)

"Italians Do It Better labelmate Nicolaas employs his signature slink for a hazy noire take on the remix. A solemn saxophone lands somewhere between Wham! & Hall & Oates, while a perforated bass bounces off the backbeat. Sally's voice is chopped into staccato shards like drops of rain on the cold city streets." - Johnny Jewel

Written by Chris Lowe & Neil Tennant
Vocals by https://soundcloud.com/sally-shapiro
Remix produced & mixed By NICOLAAS at The Bakkery
Winnipeg, Canada
Saxophone By Steve Moore
Mastered by Tom Waltz

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You dress me up, I'm your puppet
You buy me things, I love it
You bring me food, I need it
You give me love, I feed it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
With everything we see
I never want anything, it's easy
You buy whatever I need
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
You phone me in the evening on hearsay
And bought me caviar
You took me to a restaurant off Broadway
To tell me who you are
We never ever argue, we never calculate
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
I'm your puppet
I love it
And look at the two of us in sympathy
And sometimes ecstasy
Words mean so little, and money less
When you're lying next to me
But look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
Look at my hopes, look at my dreams
The currency we've spent
I love you, you pay my rent
I love you, you pay my rent
It's easy, it's so easy
I love you
It's easy, it's so easy
I love you
It's easy, it's so easy
I love you
It's easy, it's so easy
I love you
It's easy, it's so easy
You pay my rent

Rent

Sally Shapiro | Rent (NICOLAAS Remix) (feat. Steve Moore)

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

There are many shades of funk in dance music. Berlin’s Toy Tonics label brings up artists that reflect many of these different aspects of dance music. Now the label comes up with a band! A band that is inspired by 1980ies New Wave as well as the Y2K Indie dance scene. Two guys and two girls from Amsterdam and Montreal called Baby’s Berserk.
Baby’s Berserk is about taking the freedom to be who you want to be, about being comfortable. Having played in all-girl punk bands since the age of 14, the bands singer Lieselot is an expert on female empowerment. “Dress like a girl and act like a boy,” is a catchphrase she lives up to every day and it clearly is a message that resonates with the band’s wild fans.
In the great tradition of Roxy Music, Throbbing Gristle and Malcolm McLaren, Baby’s Berserk is not just about the edgy music but also about a very strong own visual style. They readily blend their sounds with underground fashion. What you see is what you get and seeing Baby’s Berserk is feeling right at home. Lieselot is a visionary when it comes to stage presence. Have you always wanted to see an electronic band with a punk attitude perform wearing a mix of haute couture and Flintstone-style rags? Look no further, it’s Baby’s Berserk.
Following on the critically acclaimed singles ‘What I Mean’ (2020) and ‘Toxic Kisses’ (2022), Baby Berserk’s highly anticipated self-titled full-length is now finally about to see the light on Berlin’s Toy Tonics records. Sonically designed for gritty rock venues as well as up-to-date edgy dance clubs, Mano’s lush compositions smoothly intertwine with the highly associative lyrics written by Puggy and Lieselot. Poets and literary addicts may think they’ve just discovered the rock & roll equivalents of Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut and Allen Ginsberg. To tell you the truth: their wild guess is pretty accurate as the works by these greats lie scattered around the Baby’s Berserk studio for inspiration.
The band was born in a laboratory back in 2019. Tired of being in bands with unruly and unpredictable humans, Mano Hollestelle set out to create a group of high precision robots to create the post-punk sound he had in mind. His outdated technology of floppy disks and cassette tapes worked well to program the androids, until one day a 90s rave mixtape was mistakenly entered into his computer. House music is a feeling and the punk bots instantly got hooked on it upon hearing it for the first time. They could never be reset to factory settings again. Mano worked tirelessly with his androids, currently known by their humanoid names of Lieselot Elzinga, Puggy Beales and Eva Wijnbergen, to fulfill his evil plan to make the rockers dance and the dancers rock. Baby’s Berserk is the fiendish extension of this plot. Beware, the band’s bass driven grooves and computerized beats have been known to cast a spell upon all within earshot.
So what do the songs on ‘Baby’s Berserk’ tell you? That it’s totally fine to have lots of fun in life! To have a boyfriend as an accessory (‘Accessories’), to get inspired by Sponge Bob (‘Dancing with the Fish’) and to blend your spirits with mixers whenever the hell you feel like it (‘Rum ‘n’ Kola’).
Baby’s Berserk member Puggy Beales on ‘Limousine’: “Decant the wine from my tip jar to yours. Soon we'll be on easy street, chauffeured home from the rat race each evening. Is it everything you'd hoped it would be?”
Check not only the debut album but also the forthcoming Remix EP with remixes by Each Other, Niklas Wandt, Sam Ruffillo, Kris Baha and Nicolini.

Album released: 29.09.23

Baby's Berserk - Eat Your Dollar

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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

Label: Silver Walker
Artists: DFRA, Jwana Saies
Format: Digital
EP Title: Silver Walker 002
Release Date: 22nd November 2023 
Support it: https://silverwalker.bandcamp.com/album/silver-walker-002

DFRA :
https://soundcloud.com/diegoruizalvarez
https://instagr.am/diegoruizaa
https://fb.me/DFRADjandProducer

Silver Walker :
https://soundcloud.com/user-379954644

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PREMIERE: DFRA Feat. Jwana Saies - Deep Conection

Introducing @forbiddenfruit87 ‘Late Night Strut’ EP on WeZienWel Records. Inspired by 80s Boogie and Disco tracks, he brings a fresh and juicy touch to the scene with this new EP. Get lost in the rhythms of the night as Forbidden Fruit serves up a cocktail of vocoders, funky synthesizers and an irresistible blend of laidback and uptempo grooves. Whether you're taking a late night strut through the city or hitting the dance floor at your favorite club, this will be the perfect soundtrack. Close your eyes, let your mind wander, and your feet will follow.

Available on all platforms: https://li.sten.to/latenightstrut
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All tracks written/produced/mastered by Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit - Late Night Strut

Ride trough acid rain

AURA SAFARI - AURA SAFARI LP - CHURCH 017
2XLP + Digital
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/aura-safari/730697-01/

A1 - Aura Safari - Music For The Smoking Room

Toy Tonics is an independent music label and culture crew.
A fluid group of international artists based in Berlin. Musicians, DJs, producers +
graphic designers, photographers, party organisers.
Toy Tonics‘ prime ethos is to create new forms of (dance) music, but we also release limited edition t-shirts, posters and organise the Toy Tonics Jams.

THE SOUND OF TOY TONICS connects different genres to create a new emotional (dance) sound. Influenced 
by indie disco, house music, neo soul, new wave, funk and more .
We combine organic sounds with electronic production. DJ culture with analogue (band) elements. 

TOY TONICS CREATIVE DIRECTION
by Mathias ‚Kapote‘ Modica

TOY TONICS PRODUCERS, BANDS & DJ 
Athlete Whippet, Bárbara Boeing, 
Baby‘s Berserk, Cody Currie, Coeo,
Fimiani, Gee Lane, Joel Holmes, 
Kosmo Kint, Magou, Sam Ruffillo, 
Stump Valley a.o.

ADDITIONAL RELEASES by
Kai Alce, Tommiboy, Miss Keta, Daniel Monaco, DJ Sneak, Baldelli a.o.

THE TOY TONICS JAMS
Since 2019 we organize the Toy Tonics Jams to spread our Toy Tonics style and vibe. They strated in Berion 2019 and since 2022 they take place all over Europe.
In clubs like Panorama Bar (Berlin), 
Phonox (London), Rex (Paris) and at festivals like Kala, Melt Festival (Berlin), Montreux Jazz 
Festival, Calvi on the Rocks a.o.

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