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Toy Tonics
219 releases tracked from 2012 · 247 producers · latest oct 2026
Scene: Deep house · also in Soulful house
14 tracks · 10 charting artists · 8 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
59% one genreDeep House, then House and Nu Disco / Indie Dance
59% of the 219 releases we can tag · 1 of the last 12 we could tag
tempo
±6 BPM122 BPM typical, 115–127 across four in five releases
219 of 219 releases carry a tempo reading
chart tier
tier 20.5 per record
18 chart entries since July · rate = entries per record over that window; 3 bars = most; no tier = no charts or under 10 records/yr
career stage
11.3 yrs medianProducers here had a median 11.3 years of releases before their first record on the label
across 33 producers whose earlier history we can follow
first records
debuts
17 of 34
last debut
28 days ago
new here Theon Bower (Oct) · Magnolia (Sep)
17 of the 34 releases in the last 12 months were an artist's debut on the label
format
65% solo/duoSolo and duo records alongside multi-artist releases
counting compilations too, 157 of 243 · 29 various-artists compilations
remixes
33% of releasesRemixes are a large part of the catalogue
68 of the 203 releases whose credits we can read · most credited: Art Of Tones, Kapote, Ray Mang
◢ how often the roster changes
10.5
new names a year
averaged over the last 24 months, counting producers whose earlier history we can trace
21 of 81
get a second record
producers who debuted here over a year ago
2.1
releases a month
51 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.
◢ on the charts, week by week
new entries
week of 19 oct: 0 new entries · 0 top-20 placements
pathNervous Records, Defected Records +6 → Toy Tonics → LW Recordings, PRONTO +48 before · 6 afterpath into
Toy TonicsNervous Records8Defected Records7Crosstown Rebels6Glitterbox Recordings6Toy TonicsLW Recordings68 before · 6 after ↓◢ path into Toy Tonicswhere Toy Tonics artists released before and after
close ↑
01 · before · artists released here first
- Nervous Recordstier 18 artists
- Defected Recordstier 17 artists
- Crosstown Rebelstier 16 artists
- Glitterbox Recordingsno tier6 artists
- Heist Recordingsno tier6 artists
- Recovery Techtier 36 artists
- Snatch! Recordstier 16 artists
- Toolroomtier 16 artists
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02 · this label
Toy Tonics
03 · after · released here next
- LW Recordingstier 36 artists
- PRONTOno tier4 artists
- Atjazz Record Companytier 13 artists
- M.A.D RECORDSno tier3 artists
- Phonogrammetier 13 artists
- Watergate Recordstier 23 artists
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each count = artists here who also released there, out of 67 traced
also releasing on (shared artists): Razor-N-Tape Records (5), theBasement Discos (5), Future Disco (4), Peppermint Jam Records (4), Public Possession (3), Shall Not Fade (3), Sonar Kollektiv (3)
35 producers here have released on no other label we track, of 247
◢ who's on it
8 artists charted on this label in the last 8 weeks · 20 have pages here
sending a demo
- Razor-N-Tape Records (5), theBasement Discos (5) and Future Disco (4) share producers with this roster in the same period.
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