Exciting news, there will be a new tour by The Phenomenal Handclap Band in Europe around May and June 2010! Next to some festivals they will also play a couple of locations around Germany and at the Gomma show in Paris on 5 June. Here’s the full list of confirmed gigs so far:

Sat 15-May Brighton UK Jam
Thu 20-May Liverpool UK Masque Liverpool Sound City Festival
Fri 21-May London UK Stag and Dagger Hoxton
Sat 22-May Rome Italy Dissonanze Festival
Sun 23-May Basel Switzerland Kaserne
Wed 26-May Vienna Austria Flex
Thu 27-May Sofia Bulgaria Mellow Festival
Sat 29-May Istanbul Turkey Miller Freshtival
Mon 31-May Hamburg Germany Ubel und Gefahrilich
Tue 01-Jun Munster Germany Gleis 22
Wed 02-Jun Dresden Germany Scheune
Thu 03-Jun Munich Germany Kongresshalle
Fri 04 June Berlin Germany TBA
Sat 05-Jun Paris France Le Social Club
Sun 06-Jun Offenbach Germany Hafen 2
Mon 07-Jun Cologne Germany Gebaude 9

Rodion, our Gomma man from Rome will come back after 3 years with a new EP in May. An amazing 6 track superromanticextraterrific italodiscohousechanson ep.

Currently he is warming up with some live show. Check this video in Stockholm last week! (Click to open)

Friends of Gomma, so many of you have been asking why we don’t sell our stuff directly on our web site. Actually we couldn’t imagine how many people are checking our site every day, it is really amazing… thank you all for your comments and ideas…finally now we got this together and from now on you can buy Gomma musica, some shirts and other selected stuff at the Gomma shop. Try it! Also available many of the older 12″ and CDs, many of them long since sold out in stores.

Gomma Shop

Artur 8 - man from Warsaw – raised in Berlin – djing all over the world and known for being one of the most talented disco and early house DJs around. But his name is still known only by the scene’s real connoisseurs.. but his King of Kong remix for Diskokaine’s upcoming single Hall Of Shame has already featured by Aeroplane on their charts. Check this mix: a bag full of goodies …ah yes…in his free time he manages the new Gomma band The KDMS (with Max Skiba and Kathy Diamond)..

Listen & Download:
Podcast #19: Artur 8 – Live From The Volcano Mix

Release: 26 March 2010
Cat#: Gomma 141

It has been a rumor on blogs for a some time …but now it’s sure. Le Le will release their album Le Classics on Gomma in May. The band of Serge Fabergé, Rimer London and sooperdooper illustrator Piet Parra finally decided to do release a collection of their songs on Gomma.

A few tracks had been on blogs and caused a big buzz. And in fact: Their dirty techno funk & proto house is fun. Inspired by 90ies Eurotrash, Italo, The French Riviera, Pop clichés and using a unique combination of English, Dutch, German, French and fantasy words.

For now we release two pre–album singles: Disco Monster and Breakfast. Both songs have been getting big talks on the blogs and DJ support from DJ such as Mehdi, Headman, Erol Alkan, Aeroplane… also the remixes are bombs. Check them out.. Azari & III, Mercury, Seymour Bits, Kill The Noise.

We’re giving away a free download of the Breakfast track… available only for subscribers of our newsletter, so sign up now!

  “Yeah, I like this !!” Erol Alkan
  “Disco Monster is just that! A disco monster…” Larry Tee
  “Seymour Bits Mix and Azari & III are cool!” Stephen / Aeroplane
  “Awesome, i’m loving the Mercury remix of Breakfast!” Shit Robot (DFA)

Tracklist:
1) Disco Monster
2) Disco Monster (Azari & III Remix)
3) Disco Monster (Seymour Bits Remix)
4) Disco Monster (Mercury Remix)
5) Breakfast
6) Breakfast (Mercury Remix)
7) Breakfast (Kill The Noise Remix)

Download at:

Friends: we are preparing some big nice Gomma super shows around Europe..

Munich 15 May: Gomma Super Show at Maximiliansforum
Berlin 4 June: Gomma Super Show
Paris 5 June: Gomma Super Show at Social Club Paris
with: Munk, Telonius, Moullinex, Cécile, Diskokaine, Mustang, and
The Phenomenal Handclap Band

Also if you are in Belgium ..check:
12 May Ed Banger vs Gomma
with: Uffie, Busy P, Breakbot, Golden Bug, Telonius, Munk, Mustang

Yo! Here comes another appetizer for the upcoming album of Le Le – the band of Parra, Serge Fabergé and Rimer London from Amsterdam. Disco Monster is part of the album Le Classics and will be released on Gomma soon. The single will be out next week with remixes by Azari & III, Seymour Bits, Mercury etc.

Today we’re launching a new feature on our home page: the Telegomma video browser. Developed by our friends at Visuardo, this Youtube browser enables you to watch videos, save playlists and surf around the video clip universe in a much easier and comfortable way. With this new feature we will also be able to present you video clip selections of some of our friends: Asia Argento, Franz Ferdinand’s Nick McCarthy, our art directors Mirko Borsche and Thomas Kartsolis aka SmalPaze, Mathias from Munk are showing their favorite films and clips. Check it out now on Telegomma.com!