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01. Cody Currie & Joel Holmes - Blue TV Screen
02. Cody Currie & Joel Holmes - Beyond The Stars
03. Cody Currie & Joel Holmes - Theme One
04. Cody Currie & Joel Holmes - A New Chapter
ARTIST
TITLE
New Chapter
FORMAT
12"

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CATALOG #
TOYT 103EP TOYT 103EP
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RELEASE DATE
10/25/2019

More new members in the Toy Tonics family: Joel Holmes and Cody Currie joined the Berlin crew. They will release a couple of EPs. You might know Joel Holmes: American jazz pianist and keyboard player who has been member of Roy Hargrove's legendary Grammy-nominated band, but also is part of Carl Craig's synthesizer ensemble. Joel is living in Berlin now, where he is involved in the new vibrant neo-jazz scene. (Yes! Berlin used to be a Techno city, but it's becoming kind of a jazz town now!) In Berlin Joel throws monthly jam sessions (the Urban Base Jam) where the creme de la creme of Berlin ex-pad jazz musicians meet up. Americans, Europeans... Crazy things can happen here. Like when Erykah Badu played Berlin in 2019 and her complete band came to jam at Joel's session after their gig. Joel now takes the next step: he teamed up with Cody Currie: 24-year-old London born talent, who already made some waves in the house scene. Cody is known as a stylized producer, with a unique recognizable sound. Much of his craft was owned in studying a bachelors in music in London. His most known work by now might be a jazzy reinvention of "Devils Shoestring" with over half-a-million plays on SoundCloud and YouTube. With his new works Cody is coming away from sampling, working only with live instrumentation. Joel & Cody both live in Berlin now where they met Toy Tonics head honcho Mathias "Kapote" Modica. And when they met there was a vibe. All three have their roots in jazz music share similar ideas about how dance music should evolve and could sound in 2020. (In fact Kapote Modica studied jazz piano, too and has been playing in bands before getting into electronic music). Joel & Cody are working in a great Berlin basement studio, at Cody's home. Working on a new way of combining jazz-funk with real musicianship, MPC grooves and live instruments to get a new, fresh approach on dance music.