Download / Vinyl / Stream: toy-tonics.lnk.to/BrooklynTapesEP

Blessed Madonna, Pete Tong, Gerd Janson, Ash Lauryn... the list of great DJs playing and loving Sam Ruffillo's very special italian disco music is long. With only 3 EPs on Toy Tonics, he might be the most talked about producer on the Berlin label (with Cody Currie and Coeo). One of his Italian disco songs from his last EP ITALIANISSIMO ("Chiamami Subito“) made it into the high rotation playlist of the biggest Italian pop radio and is still growing in the international club underground.

Now Sam comes with a new EP. And this EP shows his other side. Until now Sam has been known for his Italian organic disco songs (no samples, all instruments played live). But for his new BROOKLYN TAPES EP the Italo-Sicilian DJ, producer and super styler Sam Ruffillo worked with a few American rappers and soul singers to create what a New York critic called „post digital soul house music“.

In fact these 4 songs are house and electronic funk - but it's also rap music and R&B and disco. Played in a very modern way, musically colorful and complex and extremely groovy. It's dance music made by musicians - not by DJs. And that makes a big difference. The melodic and harmonic elements are catchy and clever, the chord progressions are beautiful and the syncopated bass lines make you think about great bass play by maestros like Bootsy Collins or Marcus Miller (musicians know them!). It’s a rap house & disco soul EP and it features a well known Canadian rapper (who decided to stay anonymous) as well as Edson Sean, soul singer and composer from New York.

For Toy Tonics this is one more step in the evolution of high quality dancefloor music for the future. Combining house with soul, jazz with 4 to the floor beats, disco with Indie, the Toy Tonics crew is working hard on new forms of quality dance music. And finding the most interesting new artists. With Sam Ruffillo, and the other American artists on Toy Tonics (NY singer Kosmo Kint, American jazz keyboardist Joel Holmes...) the label is bringing together what's internationally new in the dance world - with no borders and no limits...

Remixes for this EP coming soon by some of Sam's fans: Ash Lauryn from Detroit, Eli Escobar from New York and Art Of Tones from France.

www.toytonics.de 
Album release: 20.01.23

Sam Ruffillo - Don't Think Twice

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Razor-N-Tape have unearthed something of a holy grail here. Recorded more than a decade ago during @midnightmagic’s inspired early period I Found Love has never previously seen a full release. 

Coming across in two parts the package pulls together a stellar remix crew including remixes by Dimitri From Paris (@dfp) & @dj-rocca, Sophie Lloyd, Perel and Derrick Carter.

Our premier today sees Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca unleashing one of their classy Erodiscotique Remixes, delivering the track firmly into peak-time disco-bliss territory. 

Check it out here and then jump over to LV online for more on the release via: https://levisiteuronline.com/music/midnight-magic-erodiscotique-remix-razor-n-tape/

I Found Love (Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca Erodiscotique Remix)

LV Premier  - Midnight Magic - I Found Love (Dimitri From Paris & DJ Rocca Erodiscotique Remix)

Taken from Black Truffle Edits 2 GAMM178. Pre-order now
https://gamm.bandcamp.com/album/black-truffle-2
https://www.juno.co.uk/products/black-truffle-edits-2-vinyl/960029-01/

Spa Dance

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

Severino Horse Meat Disco - Bounce

Introducing the debut release from the fresh Belgian imprint L.I.T.S. titled "Banana Resort" by Different Noodles. L.I.T.S., which stands for 'Lost In The Swirls,' might strike a familiar chord among those well-versed in the parallel world of house music. Ah, yes! Swirl People! Indeed, these mischievous Belgian producers are the masterminds behind this project and the label itself.

Link:
@l-i-t-s-records

APPAREL PREMIERE: Different Noodles - Banana Resort [L.I.T.S.]

112 KBPS FILES - DON'T BE A DUNCE!

Stream & Buy - https://razor-n-tape.fanlink.to/FamilyAffair3

The 3rd installment of Razor-N-Tape’s Family Affair series is home for the holidays! Now an annual end-of-year tradition, this year’s FA is a digital comp that sprawls across 13 tracks, representing artists from various corners of the globe and a wide range of musical styles.

Label regulars Cody Currie, Cor.ece, JKriv, Saucy Lady and Guinu are joined by newcomers Kim Anh, Prince of Queens, Yuu Udagawa, Gene Tellem and others for a 13-track sonic escapade through deep house, disco, and electronic sounds.

With gorgeous art lovingly designed by The Myno, in true RNT style the collection is a lovely listen from beginning to end, and naturally boasts some serious dance floor heat!

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www.razor-n-tape.com​
www.razor-n-tape.bandcamp.com

Family Affair - Vol. 3

Flamingo Pier - Wrapped In Nothing

Bottom of a Rocket

While the Record Spins

Ghek - Azavache (Original Mix)

D'llegance was a short lived studio project of Ian Levine's making it seems.  I think there's some really cool sections in this song and some sections that did not resonate with me.  So I dubbed both versions from the 12 I have, found my favorite playing, layered some production, and created a pretty ripping version here.  Pick up if you like-
https://dinosoccio.bandcamp.com/

EDITS FROM OLD DRIVE PT 2

The Soccio Elegance Edit

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DS M 011 / DS M 011 LTD Louiselle - La Mosca

Disco Segreta brings you another most-desirable italian holy grail disco gem !

Originally released in 1979 as a 45 single on the tiny private label “Papaya”, “La Mosca” is the very first version of the "Andromeda" track, already reissued by Disco Segreta in 2015, but this sports completely different lyrics and is sung by a different voice, that of italian folk pop chanteuse Louiselle.

Surprise ! The reissue 12” will not only sport  the original 45 vocal version, restored to its glory in two versions, but will also include a ***previously unreleased*** version, with a completely different arrangement , “fly” sound effects and different lyrics.

Both versions are directly taken from the analog masters. 

Edition of 500 copies, first 100 (DS M 011 LTD) will be on a sinful 180gr. numbered pink vinyl.

Release date: 27/11/2020

DS M 011 Louiselle - La Mosca

La Mosca

DS M 011 Louiselle - La Mosca PREVIEW

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.