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Toni Rios was born on October 13th 1971 in Wetzlar.He played his very first gig on his 18th birthday at a small club in Limburg named 'Easy',
Germany and soon started organizing events in special locations in his local area, like in
a Laundromat. At this time Toni is already Resident DJ at the 'Soma' and the 'Spin Club'
in Giessen, providing one of the few possibilities to party for the people in the region.
In 1992, Toni takes the opportunity to play in Miami at the 'Halloween Rave' and in
several clubs, making a quite good impression at his first gigs abroad. The first booking
for the young Spaniard in the Techno stronghold of Frankfurt/Main takes place at the
Music Hall just a year later. However, becoming part of the Frankfurt community didn't
happen by playing so much but rather by Toni's profession: working for a textile
company, he got to know the distribution manager of Sven Väth's label Eye Q. Soon he
switched and started working for the then most important german Techno Label,
combining music and job in an ideal way.
It appears evident that Toni soon starts to host occasional nights at the Omen, being well
known for his technical skills as well as for his excellent music taste. Here, in Sven Väth's
'living room', Toni learns to lead a crowd through the night and refines his skills. He
remains an essential part of the Omen Nights until the closing in 1998, having been
Resident DJ from 1995 on and cementing his position as one of the four or five big
names in Frankfurt Techno. The Berlin Love Parade sees his appearance for the first time
in 1995, so does cult club Tresor and from then on, Berlin is part of each year's schedule.
After the end of the Omen, Toni was offered a new chance: Sven Väth gets him not only
as an artist for his Cocoon booking agency but also asked him some time later to take
the responsibility upon Cocoon Recordings, together with Pauli Steinbach. It soon
became obvious that Toni could not do this job properly without neglecting his work as a
DJ, because meanwhile, the amount of his bookings had reached an extent that didn't
leave space for another job: His name appears on flyers all over Germany and the
neighboring countries. He also plays in regions more far away, such as Spain, UK, USA,
Dominican Republic, South America, Far East. In 1998, Toni plays in Ibiza for the first
time – at least since then is he 'first choice' in the clubs and at the big festivals such as I
Love Techno, Dance Valley, Mayday, Nature One und Rave on Snow.
Putting records on and mixing them was not enough for Toni Rios. Together with others
(among them Chris Liebing) he founds 'Soap Rec.' in 1995, a platform for other artists as
well as for himself. More recordings for Harthouse and other labels follow. Since 1998,
Toni is working in the studio mainly with one musician: Jörg W. Henze, co-founder of
Frankfurt record shop Delirium as well as distributor Neuton. It seems that in Jörg, Toni
has found an ideal partner, and the result of this collaboration is Toni's first Artist Album
Danzá Electrónicà on Jörg Henze's label Federation of Drums. The tooly record did strike
a chord and colleagues such as Pascal FEOS and Chris Liebing have made remixes. The
good musical relation between the both is manifesting in the foundation of the common
label of the same name: Danzá Electrónicà .
After his Album Tour in 2001, Toni wanted to step forward (and back, somehow):
together with his long time companion Frank Lorber, they appear behind the decks as
Tony Montana & Lobby Lobster, playing House Classics and Tech House.
In 2003, Toni Rios releases his second Artist Album Kiss and with this record, he shows
the wide range of his sound: from groovy to dark, from minimal to driving-percussive,
from technoid to electro. Kiss is released at the end of January and the accompanying
World Tour leads Toni in almost thirty cities in Germany, France, Thailand, Poland and
Spain.
2004 brings a new development for Toni. Some forerunners of his new style can already
be found on Kiss beneath the Techno tracks for which he is well-known: filigree sounds,
minimal soundscapes, bubbling electro and vigorous TechHouse. In Frankfurt, the busy
DJ works together with Frank Lorber already since 2002 under the pseudonyms Lobby
Lobster & Tony Montana, always being a guarantor for excellent TechHouse parties. It
became more and more fun for the two and therefore, Toni turned his attention within
his productions more and more towards this melange of pumping Techno and mercurial
House. Furthermore, two new labels testify to the neverending power of the spainard:
DANZA 500 Ltd. for experimental music and DANZA BLANCA for TechHouse. In March, a
new record from Ferro (his project with W. Jörg Henze) was released on Toni's main label
Danza Electrónica as well as a 12" under his name: 'Squeak and Squawk' - and here,
nomen is truly omen, because this record screeches and squeals and squawks and
screams that it is a true pleasure!
But not enough with that: Toni's residency in Sven Väth's Cocoon Club in Frankfurt also
took his development in account. On two Fridays per month, Toni is the host for a firstrate
TechHouse night: Secret Ingredients.
Together with this comes the first one of a series of Mix-CDs representing the
CocoonClub sound, being entitled according to the night: Secret Ingredients. Besides
that, Toni has made another Mix-CD together with Amnesia's resident MarT: Amnesia
Underground 5. He also added São Paulo / Brasil and St. Petersburg / Russia to the list
of cities he played.
His current 12" release 'Duende', which he produced together with Martin Eyerer, is
available in all record and internet stores.
