TOMMY FOUR SEVEN

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RANK	SCORE ?	GENRE	LOCATION
64413	0	Techno House	London, GB

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."

There's also his use of live instruments, an approach he and regular collaborator James Kronier call '60s techno'. He says, ?The scene as now reached a point where too many are just using one hit samples and not enough variation. There has to be a live element and live instruments".

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 look stares leads the rave at every Shooting Elvis party...