Mathias Modica and Jonas Imbery have been making me dance all year. First, there was Munk, whose album Aperitivo made it out to the States earlier this year. Then there was Leroy Hanghofer. Now, it's a mixed disc featuring the club tracks released through their label, Gomma. Gommagang 3 features a few folks whose names you might recall from this site, such as Hiltmeyer, Inc. and Who Made Who, and a few indie-level big names (The Rapture, James Murphy).
Gommagang 3 is a solid, mid-tempo dance mix of house-fused rock or rock-fused house that occasionally ventures into electro terrain, as with the flat-voiced, kitchen-sex jam "Hot in the Kitchen" from Midnight Mike and the techno-meets-early-Alan Wilder sound of "Black Beauty" by Tomboy.
The only drawback of this compilation is that Modica and Imbery include two mixes of Who Made Who's single "Space for Rent." The song is beautiful with skyclimbing male vocals that hark back to 1970s rock, but two mixes just isn't necessary, particularly since Dirt Crew does a fantastic job with this track, while The Rapture makes it sound like a Goldfrapp cover band. A Leroy Hanghofer song would have worked quite nicely in place of the latter remix.
Oddly enough, though, I'm not bothered by the inclusion of two versions of Munk's "Disco Clown." With "Disco Clown," the standout number on Aperitivo and the duo's latest single, the situation is a bit different, as Midnight Mike's "128 BPM Remix" is the floor-stomper included in the main mix and a second minimal-goes-noisy mix is featured as the secret track.