Kapote - Delirio Italiano
Who is Kapote?
If you are a Toy Tonics follower you know: he is one of the two guys running the label. The mysterious person never showing his face. Always appearing next to Munk – the other Toy Tonic boss. But well, it’s time to solve the little mystery. As it was obvious for many anyway:
Kapote is Munk! It’s the same person. It’s Mathias Modica. The Italo- German music nerd, labelowner, vinyl collector, keybord wizzard, DJ und producer based in Berlin.Modica is both artists: Munk & Kapote. And he is the creative mind behind Toy Tonics and Gomma. He started Toy Tonics with two friends five years ago. To release music of new talents he met around the world while djing. Before Toy Tonics he was running the (now sleeping) Gomma label.
While Gomma was dedicated to indie disco and weird electronica, Toy Tonics stands for advanced funk inspirated dancemusic.
On Gomma Mathias was producing music under the name of Munk. Doing collabos and singles with James Murphy, Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, Asia Argento, Peaches.
Gomma was something like „the German version of DFA (The NME). Dazed & Confused praise it as „Germany’s most interesting record label!“.But Gomma took a pause and Munk Modica created Toy Tonics. Toy Tonics is influenced by black American dance music, Balearic disco and that West London Sound.
