Tomcraft Biographie

We are writing the history of 2007. For well over a decade, TOMCRAFT has
been an important part of today's electronic music scene and one of its
most highly regarded ambassadors in foreign countries near and far. If you
wanted to sum up TOMCRAFT's life in recent years in a couple of lines, they
would look something like this: three albums, two of his own labels, dozens
of successful singles, a No. 1 hit in the UK, countless remixes for acts
such as Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Simple Minds, Sonique and many more.
Even that does not do full justice to this Bavarian DJ and producer.

TOMCRAFT is after all one of the early pioneers of electronic music and
from 1995 to the present, with tracks like "This Is No House," "The
Mission," "Silence," "Prozac," "Dirty Sanchez" and "Quelle Heure Est-Il"
and the albums "All I Got" (2001), "MUC" (2003) and "HyperSexyConscious"
(2006) he has built himself a fan base that continues to provide him with
countless bookings - in particular abroad, from the USA to Japan. But the
proverbial prophet is also very welcome in his own country.

His recognised hit "Loneliness" that was released in 2002 may have been
responsible in part for this when it shot straight to pole position in the
British sales charts. Whereas up to this moment TOMCRAFT had been better
known among the initiated for his functional club sound, now, if not
before, it became clear that mass compatibility was also possible in the
club sector without it being seen as betrayal of the scene, as a commercial
sell-out. Collaborations followed with Aggro Berlin front man SIDO, with
whom TOMCRAFT remade the track "Sureshot", Bloodhound Gang member Jimmy
Pop, with whose microphone performance was created "Broadsword Calling
Danny Boy," and Xavier Naidoo who sang the vocals to "People Like Them."
Works like these and remixes for international artistes opened new ears,
hearts and doors to him.

With this recognised status in the bag and his constant search for higher
levels in his mind, in October 2003 TOMCRAFT set up his first independent
label, Great Stuff Recordings, followed by Craft Music in 2005, on which
national and international acts such as GusGus, The Egg, Rockers Hi-Fi,
Lützenkirchen and Oliver Koletzki released records and the imprint with its
high-quality tunes which went on to become the most popular in the world in
the shortest possible time. The range is as varied and open-minded here as
with TOMCRAFT himself and in this way the one-time trancer has long since
become a musical polyglot with ambitions from Techno to Electro.

All this and the fact that TOMCRAFT has always remained as he was when he
started his career and to whom the glitter of stardom is alien, have made
him a very popular figure in the worldwide electronic music scene. His down-
to-earth nature and his constant efforts to take himself and his music one
level further guarantee many interesting developments to come - on both the
decks and in the studio.