Toy Tonics
129 releases tracked from 2012 · 93 producers · latest aug 2026
9 tracks · 7 charting artists · 6 days on genre charts per track, on average · on the charts since Jul 2026 · active
Toy Tonics is an independent music label and culture crew with international artists primarily based in Berlin. A sublabel of Gomma, it also runs sublabels including Illegal Jazz Records and Toy Toye Records. Creative direction is handled by Mathias 'Kapote' Modica. Its releases—music, T-shirts, posters, and a fanzine—are distributed by Wordandsound. The label organizes the Toy Tonics Jams, which began in 2019 in off spaces in Berlin. Since 2022, it has been invited to clubs such as Panorama Bar, Phonox, Rex Club, and Apollo, and festivals like Melt and Montreux Jazz Festival. Describing its ethos as combining the electronic with the analogue to create positive vibes, the label's sound combines new house music with indie dance and organic sounds, drawing on influences such as Italo disco, American and French house, fusion jazz, neo soul, new wave, indie dance, funk, Afro beat, and 80s pop.
◢ what the catalogue measures
sound
53% one genreDeep House, then Nu Disco / Indie Dance and House
53% of the 129 releases we can tag · 0 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±5 BPM124 BPM typical, 116–126 across four in five releases
60 of 129 releases carry a tempo reading
career stage
10.5 yrs medianProducers here had a median 10.5 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 40 producers whose earlier history we can follow
format
66% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 89 of 135 · 6 various-artists compilations
remixes
32% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
19 of the 60 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: DJ Koze, DJ Rocca, Dimitri From Paris
◢ how often the roster changes
6.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
70%
get a second record
23 of the 33 producers who debuted here over a year ago released again
1.5
releases a month
36 records in 24 months
◢ first records here, by year
Grey counts releases that year. Full colour counts producers whose first record on this label falls in that year — including producers with no traceable earlier history, a wider population than the per-year rate above.
◢ where the roster releases
labels this roster released on before their first record here
- Defected Records7 shared
- Nervous Records7 shared
- Recovery Tech7 shared
- Toolroom6 shared
- Glitterbox Recordings5 shared
- Hot Creations5 shared
- Altra Moda4 shared
- Crosstown Rebels4 shared
labels the same producers released on afterwards
- DFTD3 shared
- Freerange Records3 shared
- PRONTO3 shared
- Shall Not Fade3 shared
labels sharing this roster in the same period
- Future Disco6 shared
- Razor-N-Tape Records5 shared
- Snatch! Records5 shared
- Peppermint Jam Records3 shared
17 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 93
◢ who's on it
5 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 20 have pages here
sending a demo
- 01Future Disco (6), Razor-N-Tape Records (5) and Snatch! Records (5) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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◢ corrections
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