You've got to hand it to Tomcraft. After scoring one of the
biggest club crossover hits of all time with the classic Loneliness in 2002 (UK
Number 1, Germany Top 10 and huge sales the world over), he could have gone the
easy sell-out route and churned out decreasingly respectable pop smashes. But
instead, he relished the track's success and the popularity that it afforded
him and chose to return to the less mainstream side
of dance music,creating one of the most popular and acclaimed electronic labels
in the world in the form of Great Stuff Recordings in 2003 and continuing to
produce quality music throughout the following years.The Munich hero started
out life as a trance DJ back in 1992, when the nascent genre was hugely popular
in his native Germany. For a decade or so, he worked alongside fellow German
producer Eniac as an explosive studio team, steadily building hype and acclaim
with regular releases on the country's famous Kosmo Record-ings amongst others.
Following his breakthrough hit, they parted ways following some
disagreements,and Tomcraft set about building his reputation in the underground
scene further -- with the launch of Great Stuff and subsequent signings of huge
talents like Lutzenkirchen, Coburn, Oliver Koletzki, The Egg and Ramon Tapia.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. Naturally his DJ career exploded upon the mega-success of
that single, with highlights over the years including playing to 1.3 million
people at Berlin's Love Parade, Japan's famous Fujirock Festival, major
festivals in Brazil and some of the coolest clubs in Singapore, Tokyo, Los
Angeles, Sao Paolo, Rio, Cape Town, San Francisco,all over Europe, Poland,
Germany, France, Italy, the UK and Russia (where he remains a regular fixture).
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.Listen song here:YouTube
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