Various Artists - Gomma Dancefloor Gems Vol. 1 [2LP]

Toy Tonics

£24.28

Format: 2 x LP
Catalogue No.: TOYT141
Barcode: 0880655514110
Release Date: 17 Nov 2023
Genre: Electronic/Indie Disco

Toy Tonics presents GOMMA DANCEFLOOR GEMS VOL.1 . It’s all about Y2K, Punk- Funk and Indie Disco. 180GM 2LP.

Toy Tonics records brings us a collec0on 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 offloca0on clubs like SCALA and RIO, London’s TRASH or 333 par0es and Paris ‚Kill The DJ‘ and Paris Paris clubs.

Those Y2K clubs and the Gomma label brought together 80ies inspired Indie rock ar0sts like NickMcCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (who’s was producing records on Gomma before gekng world-famous) and Electro punk princess Peaches (who did a whole Disco album on Gomma records and is featured on this compila0on with a cover of „Maniac“ from the Flashdance movie soundtrack). Italian disco legends like Baldelli or Robotnick were poppping up in those 0mes aner years of silence (before gekng 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 in 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 its own sexy, in your face music melange that was very in demand in those days from 2000 - 2010 and inspired many ar0sts. Not just music people like James Murphy, who did music with Gomma before star0ng 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 inspira0on from the Gomma world: Gomma’s edgy album cover designs, their poster fanzine, their colourful t-shirt designs and the whole style that the bands, DJs and people at their worldwide par0es were rocking became a MUST all over the world. In the early 2000’s it was just art students from London’s Central St. Mar0ns or Berlin’s UDK school that played that sound on their par0es, later magazine like VICE or i - D invited Munk and the Gomma acts to their par0es and later it was fashion brands like Prada, Margiela, Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi Slimane who used Gomma ar0sts to make music at their fashion shows or events.

Gomma then in 2015 fnally closed. When a lot of new labels popped up copying the Gomma aktude and styles (0ll 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 0me to remember the old inspira0onal 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 than made an excep0onal career doing designs for fashion labels like Supreme and Balenciaga and being the crea0ve director of magazines like ZEIT, Spike or Kaleidopskope.)

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.

Tracklist :
A1) Moullinex & Peaches – Maniac A2) Munk - Disco Clown (Midnight Mike Version) A3) Whomadewho - Flat Beat B1) Golden Bug - Bisco B2) Headman - It Rough (Chicken Lips Remix) C1) Baldelli - Atlan0de C2) Trans Mania - Boing Boom Jack (Robotnick Remix) C3) Leroy Hanghofer - Bathroomboogie D1) Severino Horse Meat Disco – Bounce D2) Rodion - Atala Ride D3) Munk – Androgyn