{"product_id":"gomma-dancefloor-gems-vol1","title":"Gomma Dancefloor Gems Vol.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eToy Tonics presents \u003ci\u003eGomma Dancefloor Gems Vol 1.\u003c\/i\u003e It’s all about Y2K, Punk-\nFunk and Indie Disco.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eToy Tonics records brings us a collection of tracks originally released on the German\nGomma Records label between 2001 and 2010. Gomma was one of the key labels\nof the Y2K indie dance wave along with labels like James Murphy’s DFA and Trevor\nJackson’s Output Records. And as the 90ies revival that dominated the last years in\nfashion and electronic music reached its peak (Techno and Electronica is pure 90s\nrevival music) the Toy Tonics gang thought it’s a good moment to re-mind some of\nthese early 2000’s tracks that connected a more raw, indie disco and punky funk vibe.\nIt was another energy in those party days. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThose Y2K clubs and the Gomma label brought together 80ies inspired Indie rock\nartists like NickMcCarthy of Franz Ferdinand (who’s was producing records on\nGomma before gekng world-famous) and Electro punk princess Peaches (who did a\nwhole Disco album on Gomma records and is featured on this compilation with a\ncover of \"Maniac“ from the Flashdance movie soundtrack). Italian disco legends like\nBaldelli or Robotnick were poppping up in those times aner years of silence (before\ngekng hype again later) as well as Gomma’s own discoveries like WhoMadeWho\n(their first 2 albums were quite punk funky and produced by Gomma’s head honcho\nMathias Modica), Italian disco punkster Rodion, Parisian nasty funk dude Golden Bug,\nLondon’s mysterious prince of new wave prince Midnight Mike (who started in\nGomma and later ended up on Ed Banger records) and Gomma’s main act Munk. And\nyes there is even DJ Severino who did a proto house remix for the label in the early\nHorse Meat Disco days.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat raw and nasty Gomma sound that mixed up many genres and made its own\nsexy, in your face music melange that was very in demand in those days from 2000 -\n2010 and inspired many artists. Not just music people like James Murphy, who did\nmusic with Gomma before starting his own LCD Soundsystem or bands like Chromeo,\nNew Young Pony Club or Soulwax who started later with a similar vibe, but also art,\ngraphic and fashion people took inspira0on from the Gomma world: Gomma’s edgy\nalbum cover designs, their poster fanzine, their colourful t-shirt designs and the\nwhole style that the bands, DJs and people at their worldwide par0es were rocking\nbecame a Must all over the world. In the early 2000’s it was just art students from\nLondon’s Central St. Martins or Berlin’s UDK school that played that sound on their\nparties, later magazine like VICE or i - D invited Munk and the Gomma acts to their\nparties and later it was fashion brands like Prada, Margiela, Karl Lagerfeld and Hedi\nSlimane who used Gomma ar0sts to make music at their fashion shows or events.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGomma then in 2015 fnally closed. When a lot of new labels popped up copying the\nGomma aktude and styles (0ll these days). Gomma’s head honcho and main\ninventor Mathias Modica stopped the whole thing, changed the name and started\nsomething new: Toy Tonics records. Yes! Toy Tonics came out of Gomma and that’s\nwhy now it’s time to remember the old inspirational days.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(Gomma’s other very important part was the graphic designer Mirko Borsche who\ncreated the whole Gomma look with Modica and Jonas Imbery the other Gomma\nmember. Mirko Borsche since than made an excep0onal career doing designs for\nfashion labels like Supreme and Balenciaga and being the crea0ve director of\nmagazines like ZEIT, Spike or Kaleidopskope.)\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMathias Modica aka Munk aka Kapote himself now is busy with Toy Tonics, which\nbasically is bigger than Gomma ever was: Spreading a very own sound of organic\nhouse and disco funk. With party happenings all over Europe every weekend and a\nvery young audience.\n\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Toy Tonics","offers":[{"title":"Black LP","offer_id":50530307834187,"sku":"2053128","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/TOYT141_5d8b9206_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1728076351","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/de\/products\/gomma-dancefloor-gems-vol1","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}