In 2007 IDJ picked him as "one to watch". This year DJ mag said "Tommy Four Seven is primed to blow them away in 2008". And all before he turned 21...
First appearing on vinyl as an 18-year-old on oldschool tech label Brique Rouge, Tommy Four Seven has since released on labels from Love Minus Zero to iO Music Catwash, and of course has been a regular on Brique Rouge's nastier sister label Kill Brique. He's remixed Wink, DK7, Mike Monday and Tom Pooks, and been a regular guest at nights from Paris's tres cool ship-borne party Terrassa, London's underground afterhours Redlight, and parties from Tahiti to Lithuania to Ibiza, as well as key local London clubs like Fabric, the End and the Key.
Now the supporters of his hypnotic deep techno range from Perc to Chloe, Ewan Pearson to Garnier, Len Faki to Joel Mull. "I like dark moods in general," Tommy told DJ magazine. "Deeper sounds are more hypnotic. There's more to connect to than wham-bam-here's-the-riff-now-dance-to-it. You have to get drawn into tracks.â€
There's also his use of live instruments, an approach he and fellow label act, James Kronier call '60s techno'. He says, “It's deep techno at the core but much more organic than just using one hit samples like most tracks do, the 60s techno sound is about finding a better balance between human and machine. Digital music doesn't have to sound like a computer has made it."
Hence starting his own label, Shooting Elvis. Gathering artists from Remute to Darko Esser to Mark Broom to Sebastian Roya - as well as the already mentioned second 21-year-old UK wonderkid, James Kronier - it's a European approach to electronic music. Release one, "Strix", was described as "wow" by Chloe, with DJ mag calling the label "edgy ... intoxicating ... seething". Release two, Contact, meanwhile, had Laurent Garnier saying "fucking brilliant", and Mixmag has raved about loving all three of the first releases. The label itself has also picked up raves for Elvis, the alien whose quizzical, distant stares lead the rave at every Shooting Elvis party...
-:RELEASES:-
[Brique Rouge] Alex Parsons & Tommy Four Seven / Chocolate Makes Your Clothes Shrink / 2005
[Block Records] Tommy Four Seven / Smoke/Killaz / 2006
[Brique Rouge] Tommy Four Seven / My Friend EP / 2006
[HY:BR] Tommy Four Seven / Pocket Man / 2006
[iO Music] Tommy Four Seven / Wap The Chicken / 2006
[Brique Rouge] Tommy Four Seven / Eat Me / 2006
[Love Minus Zero] Tommy Four Seven / The Invisible / 2007
[Catwash Records] Tommy Four Seven / Dogz Attic / 2007
[Brique Rouge] Tommy Four Seven / Smoke / 2007
[Kill Brique] Mark O Sullivan & Tommy Four Seven / Nowhere / 2007
[Brique Rouge] Tommy Four Seven / Eat Me remixes / 2008
[Shooting Elvis] Tommy Four Seven & James Kronier / Strix / 2008
-:REMIXES:-
[Kill Brique] Tom Pooks / Moon H / 2006
[Brique Rouge] DJ Fex / Acid Forever / 2007
[JM Recs.] Mark O Sullivan & Corrugated Tunnel / Rockstars Swallow It / 2007
[DK7 Recs.] DK7 / Killer / 2007
[Toolroom] Sucker DJs / Salvation / 2007
[Brique Rouge] Mazi & Duriez / This Is Not A Follow Up / 2007
[Rebel Audio Recordings] F.O.N.K. / Scenic Route / 2008
[OM Records] Florian Kruse / Love Hurts / 2008
-:APPEARANCES:-
[UnderCover Clubload CD] Tommy Four Seven / Eat Me / 2006
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