{"product_id":"kapote-para-mytho-disco","title":"KAPOTE-PARA MYTHO DISCO","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToy Tonics Music Berlin presents „Para Mytho Disco“. The 2nd „Kapote\" album of label founder and creative director Mathias Modica.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKeyboarder, DJ, producer, music nerd, graphic designer, multi-instrumentalist, sub-culture impressario and artist (formerly known as Munk of Gomma records.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eKapote \u0026amp; Toy Tonics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the last years Kapote was in the spotlight mainly for building the Toy Tonics label with his friends. Developing a platform for new positive quality dance music with a human touch. Toy Tonics is the opposite of the dark, druggy Techno and Trance sounds of the last years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe warm inclusive music of Toy Tonics represents a new vibe that a young generation of diverse, stylish and culturally intersted generation of dancers loves now. Kapote’s Toy Tonics became the key label for that vibe. (In 2024 Toy Tonics made 150 Toy Tonics events in 18 countries. With more than 150.000 people dancing. 90 millions streams on their music.)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eToy Tonics is more than a music label: It's a audio - visual universe. A community, almost a\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bcTruncateMore\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003emovement.\u003cbr\u003eBased on a new positive attitude and aesthetic diversity. Mixing musicianship with DJ culture, analogue music with electronic, ideas from the past with sounds from now. To create something new. Connecting dance music with graphic design, art and underground fashion.\u003cbr\u003eKapote and his gang release vinyl, posters, shirts, art fanzines and make exhibitions and partys.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToy Tonics started in Berlin as a underground niche project. But now became the key label of the new house, wild style disco and organic dance music scene.\u003cbr\u003eProbably one of Berlin’s biggest electronic music phenomena along with Keinemusik and Live from Earth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt went fast: 2020 Kapote’s crew started to make small parties in Berlin’s off spaces. The „Toy Tonics Jams“. The parties became \"talk of the town\", and Berlin clubs like Griesmühle and Panorama Bar invited the crew. Then international clubs and festival called. Toy Tonics were invited to SONAR (playing the mainstage with Kaytranada and DJ Tennis), KALA festival, Montreux Jazz festival.\u003cbr\u003eNow TT has a residency at Panorama Bar Berlin and sold out events in Europe leading clubs like Phonox in London, Rex Club in Paris, Tunnel in Milan.\u003cbr\u003eToy Tonics now is the reference brand of a new generation of music loving dancers. Similar to Gomma records, Kapote’s former label (2003 - 2015) that was one of the key labels of the „indie dance“ scene of the Y2K years (along with DFA and Output Records).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKapote created a multi-cultural movement with graphic designers, photographers, illustrators from the Berlin scene.\u003cbr\u003eThey publish the Toy Tonics Pocket Poster magazine, posters and design shirts. They organize the Toy Tonics Pop Up Galleries mixing music and art. In underground venues in Berlin and in new gallery spaces and museums around Europe.\u003cbr\u003eToy Tonics has been invited by Palais de Tokio museum in Paris, Triennale Museum Berlin, Design week Milano to create events.\u003cbr\u003eThe new Kapote album\u003cbr\u003eThe 12 tracks have a very own style. Based on dance music, but going much further. „Para Mytho Disco' is a futuristic mix of sounds. It's far away from the dark monotone techno and trance music from Kapote's hometown Berlin. Instead, he creates warm friendly atmospheres full of sonic colours and little musical surprises.\u003cbr\u003eKapote's knowlege of music history and his backround as a jazz piano student and son of classic music composer is clearly inside this music. Before turning into a DJ and electronic music producer he has been playing in bands since he was 13 years old.\u003cbr\u003eThe album is full of emotional chord progressions played by Kapote on various keyboards. Sometimes reminding music from the past, without being retro at all. The basslines and melodies are inspired by jazz fusion from the 1970ies. And he programmed syncopated grooves that come from afro-american dance music. There are influences from Japanese electronic music (Yellow Magic Orchestra), from 1980s Synthwave and from 1990s electronica (like Squarepusher and Luke Vibert).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKapote plays keys, bass, flutes and percussions, he plays synth solos and sings on a few tracks. The complexity of the arrangements makes this music never boring. Lot of melodies and solos that catch the listener. Colourful soundscapes that make you want to listen or dance to this album more, and discover details also after you heard it several times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKapote background\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore starting Toy Tonics, Kapote used to run a label called Gomma. He produced four albums under the name Munk and music for other artists.\u003cbr\u003eHe produced music with Peaches, Franz Ferdinand founder Nick McCarthy, with New York street art legend The Rammellzee, Italian actress Asia Argento, the first three albums of WhoMadeWho and worked with LCD Soundsystem (listen to „Kick out the chairs“, the Munk song with James Murphy )\u003cbr\u003eIn those „Gomma days“ Kapote aka Munk was also one of the main DJs for VICE magazine parties and made music for art projects and fashion brands (Margiela, Prada, Colette).\u003cbr\u003eIn 2015 he stopped Munk and Gomma and started Toy Tonics. He found young producers and helped to develop their sound (Coeo, Cody Currie, Gee Lane, Barbara Boeing, Sam Ruffillo). Later he founded the sublabel Kryptox to release music by Berlin based bands that make new forms of jazz or neo classical sounds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUnder the name Kapote Mathias didnt release much:\u003cbr\u003eOnly his Kapote debut album „What it is“ (2019) and an EP called „Electric Slide“ (2022) and a collabo EP with Italian producer Sam Ruffillo („Robot Salsa“).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn although his Munk and Kapote music was an underground phenomena his music has always been a favourite of many great people from the scene.\u003cbr\u003eSupported by DJs like Harvey, Chromeo, Moodymann, Jennifer Cardini, Gerd Janson, MYD, Andrew Weatherall to Blessed Madonna, Justice and Laurent Garnier… to name just a few.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePress quotes about Mathias\/ Munk\/ Kapote:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e„One of the most interesting German indie electronic artist\" (Dazed \u0026amp; Confused)\u003cbr\u003e\"Germany’s hottest new music crew\" (DJ Mag\/ UK)\u003cbr\u003e\"The Wes Anderson of electronic music \"(Worldwide FM London)\u003cbr\u003e\"Modica’s Berlin underground culture movement makes you think about Warhol’s New York factory in the 1970ies…\" (Corriere della Sera\/ Italy)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALL MEDIA SUPPLY","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48379214364787,"sku":null,"price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0270\/0342\/0787\/files\/0880655517517.jpg?v=1789852498","url":"https:\/\/www.techniquerecords.com\/products\/kapote-para-mytho-disco","provider":"Technique Records LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}