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With a love of the old and a hunger for the new Tom Trago is continuously stretching his DJ and production boundaries. Tom Trago comes from a hip-hop background and slowly developing his style into an eclectic mix of hip-hop to techno. While holding down residencies in Amsterdam and Paris, he just c
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With a love of the old and a hunger for the new Tom Trago is continuously stretching his DJ and production boundaries. Tom Trago comes from a hip-hop background and slowly developing his style into an eclectic mix of hip-hop to techno. While holding down residencies in Amsterdam and Paris, he just cooled down from gigs at Platic People in London and Wasserwerk in Switzerland. His first outing as a producer in 2006 'Live With the BBQ' is a kind of b-boy styled variant of house, at times bringing to mind Carl Craig or early material from Recloose. On his collaboration with San Proper, Tom Trago served up another couple of mid-tempo blister packs from the sleazy end of the house spectrum. Again giving a handsome nod in the direction of Detroit, the two cuts here are slow burners that bloom into all out dance floor slayers before you know what's happened. Next to all this, Tom did a project on Kindred Spirits called “Fluor Green” in which he is putting Amsterdam on the map for dirty instrumental beats. On this LP for NOD NAVIGATORS he excudes the warmth of soul music combined w/electronic beats for a headknodding odyssey.
All in the spirit of promoting new and innovative electronic music, Tom set up 08bar in 2005 together with some Amsterdam friends, 0Bar wants to stimulate talent, and promote electronic music in Holland, and beyond. Besides organising parties, 08bar also puts out records. The records contain a compilation of the best tracks that are submitted @ the 08Bar parties, with exclusive tracks from some producers that already have albums out, as well as some really talented bedroom-producers nobody knew about yet.
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