Various Artists - Gomma Dancefloor Gems Vol. 2 [Toy Tonics]

Format: 2x12".
CAT: TOYT142

10 tracks originally released on the indie dance label GOMMA RECORDS between 2001 and 2010. (Gomma was the label Toy Tonics ran before starting Toy Tonics).

Along with DFA and Output Records, Gomma released a wild mix of electronic dance music, indie rock, underground disco, post punk, and new wave funk that was big in the 2000s. The Y2K sound!

Gomma released music by artists such as Peaches, Whomadewho, The Rammellzee, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, and artists like Nick McCarthy from Franz Ferdinand. Now it's 2023, and it feels fresh to shine a light on some of these tracks again.

That's why a second part of the Gomma tracks compilation is here: Nancy Whang, the singer from LCD Soundsystem, WhoMadeWho (the band that started their career on Gomma), British indie disco hero The Deadstock 33s, also known as Justin Robertson, NYC disco hipsters In Flagranti, German producers Munk, and many more on this compilation.

Gomma was not only a record label, but also a home for avant-garde design, wild T-shirt styles, underground exhibitions with new artists from the Berlin scene, and crazy poster and fanzine design. Many of the graphic design trends of recent years were preceded by what the Gomma artists were doing. And many record labels and streetwear brands today look a bit like what Gomma used to do... copying the images that Gomma preceded: ironic drawings, trash aesthetics, Greek symbols, ugly design ideas, and many ironic things.

Gomma's visual world was featured in a couple of exhibitions around the world and in a large exhibition at the #hausderkunst in Munich before the label closed in 2015 (when Toy Tonics took off...).