Tomcraft

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DJ Tomcraft
Tomcraft, 1994
Tomcraft, 1994
Background information
Birth nameThomas Brückner
Born (1975-06-12) 12 June 1975 (age 48)
Munich, West Germany
GenresHouse, techno, trance
Occupation(s)
Years active1994–present
LabelsGreat Stuff
Websitewww.tomcraft.de

Thomas Brückner

progressive trance music and is better known for having created the tracks "Loneliness" and "Prosac", working alongside Eniac
.

Music career

Tomcraft began working as a DJ in

techno and the emerging progressive trance style.[citation needed] He played his first major DJ gigs in 1995 at the Munich technoparade Union Move.[2] In the same year, he released his first track, "This Is No House".[3] He first met Eniac in 1996, and the two immediately started producing music together, beginning with "Viva". The same year yielded the track "Prosac", but this did not achieve success until it was re-released in 2001. For a decade or so, he worked alongside fellow German producer Eniac as a studio team, steadily releasing tracks on, among others, local label Kosmo Records.[4]

From the end of the 1990s to 2003 Tomcraft was resident DJ in Munich's techno club KW – Das Heizkraftwerk.[5]

In 2002 Tomcraft released "

Lutzenkirchen, Coburn, Oliver Koletzki, The Egg and Ramon Tapia. [citation needed
]

Other musical highlights over the years included playing to 1.3 million people at Berlin’s Love Parade in 2003, Japan’s Fuji Rock Festival,[7] festivals in Brazil, and clubs in Singapore, Tokyo, Los Angeles, São Paulo, Rio, Cape Town, San Francisco, and several European cities.[8]

2005 saw the launch of Craft Music, a new outlet for his productions with all other signed releases treated to a remix by the man himself – with the label undergoing a major relaunch in 2010 to bring it back to the forefront of house and techno music.[citation needed]

His sound has morphed over the years from trance into electro house and now since 2007 into a balance of those influences with a progressive house backbone, returning to the melodic sound that he came from originally.[9]

Tomcraft has released four albums to date, All I Got (2001), MUC (2003), HyperSexyConscious (2006) and For the Queen (2007), all on Kosmo Records.

His 2007 album, For the Queen, was a collaboration with Tobias David Lützenkirchen from their Great Stuff label, and while similar in style with previous Tomcraft releases, it is distinctive in a more narrative way, with less of the dance floor dimension of his previous works; he calls it a "feature album" and it is rich with collaborations and two covers.[10]

Discography

Albums

  • All I Got (2001) No. 97 Germany[11]
  • MUC (2003) No. 41 Germany[11]
  • HyperSexyConscious (2006)
  • For the Queen (2007)

Compilation albums

  • Tomcraft – The Mix (2003 remix album of other artists, with two exceptions, where other artists have remixed his tracks)

Singles

  • "This Is No House" (1995)
  • "Rollercoaster" (1995)
  • "Viva" (1996)
  • "Unicum" (1996)
  • "Prosac" (1996)
  • "The Circle" (1997) No. 52 Germany[11]
  • "Mind" (1997)
  • "Gothic" (1998)
  • "The Mission" (1998) No. 43 Germany[11]
  • "Powerplant" (1998)
  • "Flashback" (1998)
  • "The Lord" (1998)
  • "Punk Da Funk" (1999)
  • "Ezekiel 25.17" (1999)
  • "Versus" (vs. Sunbeam) (2000) No. 50 Germany[11]
  • "Silence" (2000) No. 39 Germany[11]
  • "Prosac" (re-release) (2001) No. 50 Germany[11]
  • "All I Got" (2001)
  • "Overdose" (2001) No. 38 Germany[11]
  • "Bang Bang" (2002)
  • "
    UK (2003 release),[1] No. 10 Germany[11]
  • "Brainwashed (Call You)" (2003) No. 43 UK[1]
  • "Into the Light" (2003) No. 65 Germany[11]
  • "Great Stuff" (2003)
  • "
    Sonique On Tomcraft") (2004) No. 57 Germany[11]
  • "Dirty Sanchez" (2005)
  • "Sureshot" (2005)
  • "Quelle Heure Est Il" (2005)
  • "Da Disco" (2006)
  • "Sureshot 2006" (featuring Sido and Tai Jason) (2006) No. 34 Germany[11]
  • "Katowice" (2006)
  • "Broadsword Calling Danny Boy" (featuring Jimmy Pop) (2006)
  • "People Like Them" (featuring Xavier Naidoo) (2007)
  • "Naked on Clouds" (2009)
  • "Disco Erection Pt.1" (2009)
  • "Disco Erection Pt.2" (2009)
  • "Room 414 (Can't Get Away)" (2010)
  • "A Place Called Soul" (2010)
  • "Written High" (2011)
  • "I Need Love" (2011)
  • "Tell Mummy" (2011)
  • "Taco" (2012)
  • "Zounds of Arca" (2012)
  • "Rock 'n' Roller" (2012)
  • "The Noyz" (featuring Sam Obernik) (2012)
  • "Supersonic" (featuring Sister Bliss) (2012)
  • "Like a Roller" (2013)
  • "U Got 2 Know" (2013)
  • "Happiness" (with Ilira an Moguai) (2020)
  • "Loneliness" (with Hardwell and DJs from Mars (2023)[12]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 1-904994-10-5
    .
  2. ^ Wulkow, Alex (19 March 2015). "Tomcraft & Tower: DJs eröffnen Bar in München" [Tomcraft & Tower: DJs open bar in Munich] (in German). tz. Retrieved 11 November 2023.
  3. ^ "DJ Tomcraft* & Mephisto (2) – This Is No House". Discogs.
  4. ^ "Kosmo Records Label". Discogs.
  5. ^ a b "Feature: Tomcraft". dmcworld magazine. Retrieved 2017-06-27.
  6. ^ "Loneliness". Official Charts Company. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
  7. ^ "History 2007". Fuji Rock Festival 14.
  8. ^ "Tomcraft Biography". Resident Advisor.
  9. ^ "Tomcraft Biography". Resident Advisor.
  10. ^ Slomowicz, Ron. "Tomcraft Interview". dancemusic.about.com. Retrieved 2 July 2010.
  11. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l "Discographie von Tomcraft". offiziellecharts.de. Retrieved 1 May 2021.
  12. ^ Julie, Jacques. "Exclusive Interview With DJs From Mars and Tomcraft on the 2023's New Version of The Hit Single 'Loneliness'". UFO Network. Retrieved 2024-04-14.

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