3 March 2026
The 21 minute film moves between sweat soaked dancefloors and the Toy Tonics studio, spotlighting the DJs, musicians and visual artists behind the collective
A new documentary spotlighting Berlin label and party collective Toy Tonics has been released.
Directed by German filmmaker Manuel Werner, “The World of Toy Tonics” traces the crew’s journey from intimate 300-capacity gatherings to established fixtures at Panorama Bar, Phonox and Design Week Milano. Across its 21-minute runtime, the documentary shifts between sweat-soaked dance floors and the Toy Tonics studio, foregrounding the DJs, musicians and visual artists who shape the collective’s distinctive universe.
Founded in 2012 by Mathias Modica, better known as Kapote, Toy Tonics emerged as a platform for vivid, high-energy house music, offering a technicolour counterpoint to the brooding techno long associated with Berlin.
Reflecting on the label’s ventures into the visual arts at Munich’s Villa Stuck Museum, Kapote said: "These exhibitions that we started to do are a combination of photography, of visual moods and of poster designs, most of them very strongly connected with Toy Tonics. When the museum Villa Stuck in Munich, which is one of the most important places for modern art in Germany, invited us and told us you can have the whole space for three days, do whatever you want, bring in all your artists, bring all your friends who do stuff for you and create your Toy Tonics space, of course, this was amazing."
Watch the documentary in full below.
