Memento Ludi

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Arpy Brown & Kapote Announce Collaboraive Album Memento Ludi via Toy Tonics
A sun-drenched fusion of yacht rock, house and modern indie dance energy – out
June 26, 2026

BERLIN, GERMANY — Toy Tonics is proud to announce Memento Ludi, the first
collaboraive album by label founder Kapote and muli-instrumentalist producer Arpy
Brown, arriving June 26, 2026.
The album is a funk-driven journey that bridges the warmth of 1970s analog
recordings with the pulse of contemporary dance music. Blending neo-soul grooves,
yacht rock harmonies and modern house rhythms, Memento Ludi captures the spirit
of classic musicianship within a forward-looking club context.
But Memento Ludi is more than a typical house record. The album moves fluidly
between dancefloor tracks and fully developed songs. Every instrument was
performed live by the arists themselves: guitars, bass, keyboards and percussion
recorded in the studio by Arpy and Kapote. Aler jamming and recording the basis of
every song in a live procedure they carefully resample the parts to create the organic,
human touch that defines the Toy Tonics sound.
The itle Memento Ludi — Lain for “remember to play” — reflects the album’s
philosophy: bringing joy, spontaneity and musicality back into dance music at a ime
when many club tracks feel increasingly mechanical and formulaic.
The collaboraion arrives during a paricularly busy moment for both arists. While
spending countless hours in the studio, Kapote and Arpy Brown have also maintained
intensive internaional touring schedules with the Toy Tonics crew, road-tesing many
of the tracks as “secret weapons” in their DJ sets from Melbourne to Los Angeles via
their homebase Berlin.
“We wanted to make a record that felt like a lost studio session from 1978 —
resampled and synthesised in 2026,” says Kapote.