Biography
For over 17 years, Tom has DJed on Fridays and Saturdays at The Castle, spinning Industrial, Darkwave, EBM, TBM, Electro and Goth. A true pioneer of the “scene” in the United States, Tom’s run at The Castle is one of the longest-standing gigs held by any single DJ in the American scene. He is always pushing the envelope to make the Tampa scene evolve by introducing listeners to new music and booking shows, which have included over 50 scene bands to date:
VNV Nation – 8 times, Soil + Eclipse, Icon Of Coil, Apoptygma Berzerk, Beborn Beton, God Module – more than once, Negative Format – more than once, Parallel Project, Grendel, Twitch The Ripper, Mordacious, Assemblage 23 – more than once, Din_Fiv, Haujobb – more than once, Velvet Acid Christ, Soman, CodeR64, Imperative Reaction, Birthday Massacre, The Star, GreyArea, Psyche, Legendary Pink Dots, Peter Murphy – more than once, Distorted Reality, Skinny Puppy – more than once, Snog, Slick Idiot, Savak, Zymosis, SVD, Culture Kultur, Wolfsheim, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult – more than once, Glitter Guns, Shadowcraft, Mourning Gloria, Combichrist – three times, Glis, Bauhaus, KMFDM – more than once, Manufactura, Front Line Assembly, Stromkern, Cut.Rate.Box, Covenant, And One, SMP, Cruxshadows, Y-Luk-O, Phillospher’s Point, Informatik – more than once, Cyanide Regime – more than once, Opaq Face, Accessory, Decoded Feedback, iVardensphere, Deadstar Assembly, Straftanz, Front 242, WASTE, ESA, END: the DJ, Head-less, Colomy 5, FGFC82O, Ien Oblique, Cellmod, Lexsine
He has graced the decks several times at festivals such as Wave-Gotik-Treffen, Kinetik Festival, Darkstar, Blacksun and Dracula’s Ball. Tom has spun along side giant scene DJs such as:
Bruno Kramm (Das Ich), Ronan Harris and Mark Jackson, Tyler Newman (Informatik), Alex Matheu and Brian Matson (Negative Format), Rexx Arkanna + Dracos, Danny Bled, Mark Paradise, Geoff Lee (Modulate), Fenando + Casey (Cyanide Regime), DJ RAM, Dirk (Accessory), David J (Bauhaus), Jasyn Bangart (GM), Byron Miller (GM), Andy LaPlegua + Joe Letz (Combichrist)
You will, however, catch him playing the oldies on Fridays for Midnight Mass and the latest music from the scene for No Boundaries every Saturday.
Tom is rumored to have a “Mount Everest” of music that spans all genres and occupies the lion’s share of space in his Tampa home. His current Poisons are: Vokda + Redbull.
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