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TOYT 099EP
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You might know Munk from the songs he did with James Murphy, Peaches, Asia Argento, or one of many other indie disco tracks he released on his former label Gomma. Gomma now is sleeping and Mathias Munk Modica started the Toy Tonics label with his friends Manu Kim and Mo Butschek. Now, he's putting out a few Balearic remixes reworks of Munk tracks. Beach party and daytime disco vibe. Remixes by Severino from Horse Meat Disco, Lauer, and Kai Alce from Detroit.
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TOYT 095LP
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Compilation originally released 2003 on Gomma records. Compiled and reworked by Munk and Kapote in 2019; re-release on Toy Tonics. Toy Tonics label heads Mathias Munk Modica and Kapote present Teutonik Disaster, a very special compilation with eight edits and reworks of rare German new wave funk and disco punk from 1979 to 1983. There have been millions of typical disco edits in the last years. But there is so much more interesting music from the late 1970s and early '80s yet to bubble its way to the surface. One of those lesser explored fields is the crazy funky side of Germany's underground disco and new wave from that period. At the time, many German bands were trying to make their own version of English and American styles. After Kraftwerk and Can had started to use the German language in a cool, new way, many bands that followed in their steps experimented with German new wave. Most of these bands didn't reach a bigger audience. Their records never got pressed to more than 300-500 copies as they were a number of years ahead of the huge commercial explosion of German pop in 1984: The NDW, aka "Neue Deutsche Welle", with Nena's humongous hit "99 Red Balloons". The bands featured on the compilation released their music before the NDW hype and later broke up. Plenty of these early bands are best forgotten, but if you dig deeper you'll find the gems, bursting with style and attitude. And that's just what Toy Tonics heads Mathias Munk Modica and Kapote did. They hit gold. Most of these tracks have already been released on the original Teutonik Disaster compilation in 2003 on Gomma Records. Gomma was the label that Mathias Munk Modica started before Toy Tonics 15 years ago, where he released records with James Murphy, WhoMadeWho, Asia Argento, etc. Gomma is not active anymore, but it felt like the right time to re-release this compilation in 2019. Munk and Toy Tonics partner Kapote made new versions of these rare songs, adding drum machines and extended them. The result is unbelievable music, heavy funk basslines, soulful vibes, cool vocals that you would be hard pressed to expect from Germans, and a vibe that slots in perfectly in 2019's post-techno and post-deep house scenario. Features Die Heteros, Camilla Motor, Exkurs, Carmen, Explorer, BBB, Roter Mund, and Die Chefs.
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GOMMA 219EP
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Mathias "Munk" Modica lives in France and has worked with many Parisian artists including Chloé, the Ed Banger crew, and Black Strobe. Here, Modica teams up with Jennifer Cardini's Paris-based Correspondant label for a collaborative release with his Germany-based Gomma label. Munk's tracks here are influenced by psychedelic ideas and the 1990s Detroit electro-funk sound of labels like Red Planet. Analog instruments, funk loops made on a MPC, and weird, sick synthesizer melodies. Includes remixes by LA's finest psychedelic electronic producer, Secret Circuit (Beats In Space Records), and German star Lauer (Tuff City Kids with Gerd Janson).
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LP version. Munk is the project of Gomma label-founder Mathias Modica ("Germany's most interesting electronic music label" --NME). Munk is best-known for his collaborations with Rebolledo from Pachanga Boys (Surf Smurf), James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem (Kick Out the Chairs), Asia Argento (Live Fast Die Old) and club-hits like "Down in L.A." and "La Musica." He co-produced the albums of Gomma bands WhoMadeWho and Moullinex. There is already a big buzz around Munk right now: The pre-single "Southern Moon" went to the top of the Beatport house charts. DJs such as Todd Terje, Shit Robot, Tensnake and Disclosure are playing it. Also "Happiness Juice" (and its superb video) is all over the blogs right now. Munk's latest remix of Lana Del Rey's "West Coast" went to No.1 on The Hype Machine after its release in June 2014 and is one of the most blogged remixes of this summer. The album Chanson 3000 is the fourth Munk album. It was recorded in Berlin, where Mathias and his new vocalists live. As usual, Mathias' music doesn't fit into any categories. It's a mixture of '90s electronica and house with new wave, '70s jazz-funk, indie-disco and his love for songwriters like Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, and Trevor Horn. Mathias is a classically-trained musician. His dad (a composer of contemporary classical music) taught him to play instruments since the age of five. That's why Modica's way of producing is so different: he mixes "real" instruments (he plays piano, synths, bass, saxophone, guitars, drums) and new digital techniques. He also has this special ability to write melancholic melodies and harmonic structures that are unusual to electronic music. That's probably why so many names have been invented to describe the Munk sound: outsider house, digital soul, deep disco -- but maybe you can put it the way a German writer did: Munk sounds like you put Metronomy, Disclosure and Nicolas Jaar in a mixer and added some great soul voices. The album was mixed and mastered by Rob Rox (Banks) and Mark Ralph (Daniel Avery, Franz Ferdinand).
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Munk is the project of Gomma label-founder Mathias Modica ("Germany's most interesting electronic music label" --NME). Munk is best-known for his collaborations with Rebolledo from Pachanga Boys (Surf Smurf), James Murphy's LCD Soundsystem (Kick Out the Chairs), Asia Argento (Live Fast Die Old) and club-hits like "Down in L.A." and "La Musica." He co-produced the albums of Gomma bands WhoMadeWho and Moullinex. There is already a big buzz around Munk right now: The pre-single "Southern Moon" went to the top of the Beatport house charts. DJs such as Todd Terje, Shit Robot, Tensnake and Disclosure are playing it. Also "Happiness Juice" (and its superb video) is all over the blogs right now. Munk's latest remix of Lana Del Rey's "West Coast" went to No.1 on The Hype Machine after its release in June 2014 and is one of the most blogged remixes of this summer. The new album Chanson 3000 is the fourth Munk album. It was recorded in Berlin, where Mathias and his new vocalists live. As usual, Mathias' music doesn't fit into any categories. It's a mixture of '90s electronica and house with new wave, '70s jazz-funk, indie-disco and his love for songwriters like Burt Bacharach, Quincy Jones, and Trevor Horn. Mathias is a classically-trained musician. His dad (a composer of contemporary classical music) taught him to play instruments since the age of five. That's why Modica's way of producing is so different: he mixes "real" instruments (he plays piano, synths, bass, saxophone, guitars, drums) and new digital techniques. He also has this special ability to write melancholic melodies and harmonic structures that are unusual to electronic music. That's probably why so many names have been invented to describe the Munk sound: outsider house, digital soul, deep disco -- but maybe you can put it the way a German writer did: Munk sounds like you put Metronomy, Disclosure and Nicolas Jaar in a mixer and added some great soul voices. The album was mixed and mastered by Rob Rox (Banks) and Mark Ralph (Daniel Avery, Franz Ferdinand).
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EF 056EP
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Gomma boss Munk's debut release on Endless Flight. The title-track on the A-side sounds like a house mix from Tom Tom Club. Funny and unique, but playful. On the B-side, both tracks are sleazy, cosmic slow-mo disco. Enjoy.
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GOMMA 152CD
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This is the new album from DJ, keyboarder, producer and Gomma Records co- founder Mathias "Munk" Modica. Fourteen electronic funk, futuristic house and indie pop songs that Modica recorded with 12 female vocalists from all around the world. The new album is the logical next step after Munk's previous collaborations with DJ Chloe, Asia Argento, Micky Moonlight or James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem. The album was mixed by Etienne de Crecy, Alex Gopher and Jan Driver (Boys Noize). The album starts off like a classic '90s house record, but quickly develops into a colorful trip into unexpected shades of music. Sometimes deep and Krauty, then again influenced by '90s Italo pop and Eurodance. There is '70s street funk, sweet, Frenchy chanson and Brazilian punk-house. English is mixed with six other languages. Electronics meets the funk of Sly Stone, the humor of Frank Zappa, the pop of Trevor Horn and the romanticism of Italians such as Goblin or Morricone. The album is a modern variation of the "girl vs. producer" thing, like Serge Gainsbourg and Burt Bacharach did some years ago. All music -- piano, synths, xylophones, bass, guitars, drum machines, and Asian percussion -- is played by Modica. The vocalists include Lou Hayter from New Young Pony Club, Clara Cometti of upcoming French bands Koko Von Napoo and The Teenagers, Mia von Matt who used to do background vocals for Peaches, Sarah Ze, a disco princess from Malaysia, Man Recording artist/DJ Joyze Muniz, Russia's Pollyester, actress Missy Chariot, Amandine Morin, a singer from Marseille, and previous Munk collaborator Francy Goertz from Berlin.
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