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GOMMA 175CD
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This is the debut album from Portuguese disco aficionado Luis Clara Gomes aka Moullinex, featuring an array of vocal excellence from Moullinex himself as well as guests Peaches, Iwona Skwarek and Da Chick. Now Gomma looks to one of its existing artists, the highly-talented Moullinex for its next album. Moullinex hails from Portugal but resides part of the year in Munich, Germany. He is a multi-instrumentalist, writer, producer and vocalist and Flora is an insight into his musical world, featuring an uplifting array of sun-drenched melodies and his own heartfelt vocals alongside those of female vocalists Iwona Skwarek (of Rebeka) and Da Chick. Essentially Flora is a disco album, but it is neither a retro pastiche nor a cold, modern imitation of the sound; rather, Gomes has delivered a wonderfully-crafted selection of songs that marry timeless melodies with a deft production touch to create a music work that brims with positivity. From the beautiful opener "Sunflare," which lifts off the LP with a smile, the whole album has a life-affirming tact to it. Tracks like "Let Your Feet (Do the Work)" and the electro disco killer title-track bring a ray of light to the dancefloor and even the melancholically-titled "Take My Pain Away" and "Darkest Night" can do nothing but have you reaching for the sky. The album closes with a superb bonus track, a cover of "Maniac" from the '80s film Flashdance, this time featuring vocals from Peaches. Moullinex's debut has clear influences from Moroder on show, and there are elements of Daft Punk in a number of places, but throughout the album, Gomes very much carves his own sound, creating a musical soundscape that brings together the best of disco, funk, soul and electronica from the last four decades with a defiant look towards the future.
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GOMMA 165CD
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This is the debut album from The KDMS, who have lately been described as the "indie-disco answer to Adele." Then a German journalist wrote: "The KDMS could be for the new underground disco scene what Moloko were for the late '90s downbeat phenomena. A key band that connects current club music with great songwriting and the unique voice of a great soul diva." Three singles out in two years have seen a prominent fan base growing rapidly, creating a good buzz in the electronic music world. Tensnake, Jaymo and Hot Chip are fans. Hot Chip even got involved in the album: Felix Martin did a remix for "Tonight," and Alexis Taylor and Justus Köhncke are guests on the album and made a bonus track: a hypnotic alternative version of "Wonderman." The KDMS are London's electro soul diva Kathy Diamond and the super-talented young producer Max Skiba. On stage, they get support from three side musicians. Kathy and Max met a few years ago and immediately felt that there was a connection. Max had done a few things for labels like Under The Shade, Skylax and Record Makers. Kathy had worked with Maurice Fulton, Aeroplane and Toby Tobias. But since their first session it was clear that this cooperation could grow. There was a kind of magic in the air. When they make music together, a special energy emerges. They have soul. They are sophisticated. Sometimes melancholic. But then there is this dirty funk. The blogs love them. It seems that somehow they created the blueprint for a new, modern touch on electronic pop music. The indie disco-house movement is growing -- mainstream pop music is bored and is searching for new inspirations in the dance world. The KDMS emerges using state-of-the-art underground electronic styles, evolving them into a new, deep, dirty but glamorous pop sound. Slow, nasty, futuristic disco. A new genre-crossing style connecting different musical angles.
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GOMMA 160CD
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The Esperanza boys combine huge musical talent, fantasy and knowledge of music history with a great technical ability and skills. All three guys have been learning classical instruments but have also been experimenting with electronics. Esperanza's Carlo Dall'Amico, also known as CECILE, has already released on Gomma (his remix for Vampire Weekend stirred quite a buzz in the UK). On their debut album, the guys create their very own different sound. Atmospheres range from late-San Francisco psychedelic to tropical or Icelandic vibes, Düsseldorf electronics, mid-'90s Detroit techno mixed with a pure "Anima Latina" -- the universe of Italian melodics and harmonics. Or think about Brian Eno having a friendly jam session with Global Communication, Turzi and Air in an open-air amphitheater. The album features recording artist Banjo Or Freakout on vocals, and future remixes come from Luke Abbott, Broke One and Walls.
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GOMMA 157EP
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The long-awaited, first 12" by Berlin DJ Hugo Capablanca and Swedish man of many talents, Tobias Keeler. An epic flamenco-boogie 11-minute jam that makes girls shake their goodies faster then 45 singles turn around. Featuring vocals by flamenco duende Ana Menjiba. Hot stuff! Includes a remix by P.G.Parallax.
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GOMMA 024CD
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The legendary Gomma-disco album made by Munk (originally released in 2001) and it still sounds super fresh: raw discoboogie crossed with some punk-funk, pop and Italo disco. Leroy Hanghofer's got his own special producing technique: he says he's sick of hearing all these "wannabe Dionne Warwick or whatever jazzy soul voices." Instead, he likes the charming sleaziness of talented but "innocent" dilettantes. So he finds himself some nice girls with sexy voices at the club, brings them to the studio, serves them beer etc., then he sends them into the toilet (which is the vocal cabin of Asamstüiberlstudio), and with the help of his friends from Munk, puts together a cool little tune from time to time. A Leroy track always sounds a little bit "out of everything," and has this certain flavor of its own -- it mixes new wave and electro pop aesthetics with boogie-beats and R&B flavors, now that he's got so many tracks -- it would be a shame not to bring these little excursions out on an album. So here it is: German new wave boogie.
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GOMMA 022CD
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Originally released in 2001, reissued on Gomma in 2006. Headman aka Robi Insinna is one of the originators of the new disco and punk-funk movement. Since he started his recording career on Gomma he has developed into one of the leaders of the new disco-rock scene. He has been asked to remix the singles of artists such as Franz Ferdinand, The Rapture, Roxy Music and Annie. This album features guests such as Soulwax, Erol Alkan and The Rapture. The Headman sound seems to get slowly established in the world of music. But Robi Headman has been doing it for a long time. The It Rough album came out in 2001 -- when bands like The Rapture, LCD Soundsystem, !!! and Radio 4 were not on the map yet. An exciting, organic, mostly instrumental disco album -- which includes a good dose of '70s rock influences as well as an elegant new wave vibe.
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GOMMA 079EP
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Includes (Daredevil's My Middle Name) Mustapha 3000 Remix, album version. Also Headman club version and Headman club dub.
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GOMMA 055CD
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2004 release. Hiltmeyer Inc delivers some wicked electronic disco. Situated somewhere between Cosmic music, proto-techno and Italian porn movie soundtracks. Hiltmeyer is a 27-year-old guy who comes from a family of US soldiers who preferred to stay in Germany and marry into a genuine Munich bunch: Hiltmeyer's grandma (who raised him) had been working as a waitress at the famous Hofbräuhaus and the Oktoberfest for 20 years. Hiltmeyer is well known in the Munich club scene for being an excellent DJ. He was raised in a part of Munich where a lot of Munich's techno producers like Zombie Nation, Richard Bartz or the Disko B/Chicks on Speed people pass their time: Sendling.
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GOMMA 120CD
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2009 release. Second album by Danish future disco pioneers Whomadewho. 13 songs influenced by early '70i prog rock as well as the complex side of disco music, with a very rough DIY pop approach and some well integrated electronic bits and drum sounds. "...the best DANCE ROCK band since LCD Soundsystem." --Mixmag
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GOMMA 123EP
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2009 single from WhoMadeWho's full-length, The Plot Remixes by Discodeine and Lützenkirchen.
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