Interview & Stupidity..
So went to play at Zutekh in Manchester recently and took part in a little interview.. Following close after my first experience with a personal trainer, or any form of exercise in a long time, the content isn’t the most musical.. You get the gist
‘Emerge’ - Official Video
Those kind folk over at XLR8R magazine premiered the video to that Emerge track.. Check what they said here, but you probably don’t care so you can just watch it there »
Tom Demac & Glimpse - Guns & Posers E.P. [Drumcode Ltd]
YES YES bruv.. some serious rave weaponry on show here.. different to the recent pleasant melancholic tones I’ve been upto recently but, no harm in variation.. It’s out now, vinyl only via the mighty Drumcode Ltd.
Tom Demac Ft. Phil Kay - Emerge [Pets]
Deep number that I did with my mate Phil a while ago.. Apparently this on made Catz n Dogz cry.. so they had to have it for their comp:
“Friends Will Carry You Home Too”
On Beatplop - 19/02/2013
Double CD - 18/03/2013
After introducing this little number on my Boiler Room set it’s finally hitting wax..
Photo-shoot & Interview with RANKIN
That’s right, THE heavyweight of fashion photography - Rankin - took some photographs of me and asked some questions for his bi-annual magazine The Hunger.
Shame I was styled in some pretty choice colourful garments, similar to that of my mum dressing me when I was a nipper.. Had to bite the bullet & get on with it though, as apparently he’s pretty famous.. He likes Snoop Dogg - Gin & Juice too (the choice of track to loosen me up as I was shitting myself!).
There’s a few words and the image that was featured in the magazine here
Critical Distance Pt.2 Hits XLR8R tracks of 2012
No 13 on tracks of the year on XLR8R which was nice.. click here to read the full listing
Seth’s Big-un’s from 2012
After hitting the dizzy heights of The Sun website pages, another dream has been met… or maybe an actual one (being that I actually read this paper). That’s right, thanks to big Seth, my name has a micro mention on The Guardian website. He wished he’d signed “Critical Distance P.t. 2”…
Check it out here
THE SUN - Feature..
Need I say more, life is complete! From days staring at tits and believing outlandish headlines as a pre-pubescent teen to growing older and appreciating the irony this tabloid giant has brought to my days.. I find myself featured on their website. A very big day indeed!
Click here to read the not to distant truth
Little Bits that Matter - Soundcloud
After the new E.P. premiering on XLR8R Magazine, the tracks are now available on my Soundcloud page for checkin’. You can listen to the title track ‘Little Bits that Matter’ on the right or click here to listen to the whole e.p.
2012
The potted history of Tom Demac goes a little like this…
As a youth in Wales, he caught the electronic bug from older friends and soon found himself raving at free parties in the woods.. After this muddy introduction, experiences got more credible with bi-weekly pilgrimages to The Orbit and Atomic Jam - returning to muck about with a four track in a friend’s garage.
Sadly, adulthood kicked in and so young Tom plunged into a Music Tech course at Salford University, ultimately spending the following years honing his record collection with frequent trips to hallowed vinyl outlet Eastern Bloc in Manchester. Promoting parties had also seeped into his day to day at this point, as had running his own label, Electronique Audio, with a small but perfectly formed techno back catalogue now a fond memory.
After an unfulfilling time in ‘proper’ employment, Tom decided to dive headfirst and full time into music, locking himself away with no windows, some synths, pots of coffee and cigarettes. Soon the result began to surface on labels like Murmur, Four: Twenty and Morris Audio, but the real breakthrough came with landmark releases on scene leading label Hypercolour and its more boutique offshoot, Glass Table.
Tracks like ‘Critical Distance Pt 2’ and those from the Obstructing the Light EP became ubiquitous in their year of release, each one demonstrating Demac’s knack for kinked grooves, slaying bass-lines and rich analogue textures. Part house, part techno, they exhibit serious sound design, almost anthemic in nature but being wholly underground at the same time. This turning point was marked in the media with glowing features, interviews and mixes commissioned by influential e-zines Resident Advisor and XLR8R. Even british broadsheet The Sun couldn’t resist getting their slice of the man who has played ‘live’ everywhere from fabric to the warehouse project, on Boiler Room and all across both Europe and South America in recent months.
The said live set frequently changes, each show bringing a constant and intense wall of sound, blending a fine balance of vintage drums, ripping analogue synth lines and contemporary grooves into something wholly new and exciting.
…Tom Demac is by no means a new talent – the man has been in the game a decade now – but is someone very much shaping the modern scene. And rightly so.
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