GPMCD078 - DJ T. pres. 25 Years of DJing - 1988-2013 (One Track Per Year) - Part 2	

LNR - Work It To The Bone (DJ T. Edit)

Анатолій Кавера
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❤️groove is in the heart, groove is everywhere❤️
Tornadotoni, who was born and raised in Bellinzona  (the italian part of Switzerland), is a Berlin based DJ and Founder of the FLINTAQ* Artist collective Femunity. Since childhood she was a vivid music lover.  
At the age of eight she bought her first record and that was a big turning point in her life. For the next decades, one could find Toni getting lost in time & space at the best record stores all over the world, growing her diverse vinyl collection. Six years ago, Miss Yetti-a dear friend of hers & one of the first female electronic DJs around- asked Tornadotoni to DJ at her birthday party. Since then, she devotedly shares her passion for music and enjoys the magical connection that comes from dancing. Music is pure energy for Toni and it is from this feeling that she puts together her eclectic sets where many genres flow together, such as house, disco, indie dance, funk, dark disco, deep house, world, dub, ambient, organic house, conscious music, hip hop, acid, trap and many more which have one common denominator: “The Groovetrain”, as Tornadotoni calls it.

Berlin: Kater Blau, Beate Uwe, Klunkerkranich, Techno Türken (Festsaal Kreuzberg), Kit Kat Club, Odessa Bar, Crackers, Bulbul (former Farbfernseher), Unter-uns-Festival, AbunDance, A100-Wegbassen-Demo, Mahalla, Michelbergerhotel, Nonostar Festival, Wilder als erwartet, die Kante, Imperia Event 

Belgium: Bonnefooi, Brussels

Munich: Komod Festival, Kesselhaus (Kinky Galore), Escon Events, Senatore Bar, Flashbox, Kulturstrand 

Vienna: Wunderwandel Garden Open Air, Ponyhof, Rudolfstanz, Ecstatic Dance for Blissplanet 

Albania: Wunderwandel Festival

Korfu (Greece): Agape Zoe Festival, Estia Bar (Arillas)


In November 2022 at the Agape Zoe Festival in Berlin, she launched her new Pilates Sound Flow Project with DJ Iv (see soundcloud link below), consisting of soundjourneys with meditative music, soundscapes, psybient, psychill, ambient and trascendent sounds of all kinds.

In today’s electronic music world there are not many artists who can lay claim to a legacy like that of DJ T. Born in Dusseldorf, DJ T. (aka Thomas Koch,) re-located to Frankfurt with his family in the late 70s. During his formative years, he fell for the hypnotic grooves of disco, inspired by his parents’ record collec-tion. At the age of nine he was already completely enraptured by music and that love affair continues until this very day. He began an obsessive quest to collect music, feeding his soul with everything from Disco and Hi-Nrg, through to early Hip-Hop and Electro, Soul, Funk and R’n’B. The groovy, infectious rhythms of all those genres continue to permeate into the music he makes and plays today, providing an intrinsic part of his sound ethic. 
He took up breakdancing, before becoming a DJ, playing at private parties ini-tially before landing his first professional gigs in the late eighties. This period proved to be a pivotal moment in his life as Acid House swept through Europe, landing in Frankfurt and taking over with the launch of Sven Väth’s legendary Omen club in 1988. The first wave of House and Techno took hold and T. was there at the forefront, absorbing all the fresh new sounds from Chicago, Detroit and the UK. He picked up a residency at the infamous Music Hall and held resi-dencies at countless clubs across the city during the next 10 years from Plastik and Dorian Gray to The Box. By the end of the nineties, he was one of Frank-furt’s best-known selectors. 
In 1989 DJ T. tapped into another side of his creative energy to set up Groove Magazine. Identifying a gap in the market and fuelled by a need to satisfy his own desire for specialised music journalism, which focused on his interests – namely underground dance music. Under his leadership the magazine was launched into the public’s consciousness and he guided Groove to become one of Europe’s premier dance music publications, which it still is today. 
DJ T.’s progression continued at a pace, as he launched his own club, Monza, using the experience gained through a decade of club events and tours under the Groove Magazine banner. He also invested his skills and knowledge into con-ceiving Get Physical – a label, which remains one of the world’s best- known House and Techno platforms. Though he left in 2010, T. still occasionally A&Rs for the label, lending his uncanny ability to uncover new talent to the seminal label. 
Production-wise, he has been consistent ever since his debut release, the ‘Mon-sterbaze’ EP with Steve Bug, which was released on Poker Flat in 2000. Since then, T. has released several well-received EPs, a slew of remixes and three al-bums, ‘Boogie Playground’ in 2005, ‘The Inner Jukebox’ produced with Tho-mas Schumacher in 2009 and ‘Pleasure Principle’ in 2011. His special touch has also been employed by numerous labels to curate compilation mixes , including ‘United Under The Ball – 30 Years Of Disco’ in 2011 and ‘The House That Jack Built Vol 1 & 2’ in 2012. In 2013 he celebrated 25 years of DJing with a very personal mix compilation, followed also by ‘Body Language 15’ and col-laboration with Defected and Strictly Rhythm to celebrate the latter’s 25th anni-versary. DJ T.’s reputation for being a master selector has been cemented by these superlative collections of music, each of which has received widespread praise, often featuring many of T.’s own edits of classic tracks. 
Despite so many accolades, his passion for music remains staunch, recently making several key changes to his professional life that have inspired him to explore new terrains. With hot new releases on AUS Music, Moon Harbour, True Soul and Jackathon representing his continued to desire to push his crea-tive boundaries. 
A highly-skilled DJ and producer and an A&R with an uncanny ability to dis-cover a nurture new talent, DJ T. is a master selector and one of the industry’s most influential figures.