swoon Launch Party w/ Tobtok

Swoon Launch party w/ TOBTOK

Something new and exciting is coming. Something fresh to the city of Canterbury.

From the very start, swoon will strive to play only the highest quality of music and stay true to it's mission of spreading nu-disco, groove, house and techno. With an eclectic mixture of DJ'S. You won't have seen anything like this in Canterbury.

Expect the club to be transformed with an 8 metre LED wall, enhanced sound and performers.

TOBTOK

22-year-old Tobtok /aka/ Tobias Karlsson, is one of the latest and most exciting musical exports calling from Uppsala, Sweden.

Tobtok’s influences have been wide and varied over the years, with rock and metal among his very first finds at the age of 6. Being in a band through his teens, an allencompassing love for everything that is music filled his life. A long lasting affiliation and respect for Michael Jackson brought around his softer side, and at 17 the natural progression and discovery of old school disco.

Timing is everything, and Tobtok started to see the rise in popularity of Electronic and in-particular Nu Disco. The opportunity to put the fun back into music just like the 70’s was just too hard to resist, and he set about perfecting his techniques and started to produce on a more serious level.

Having been diagnosed with cancer and told there was a 50% chance he would lose most of his hearing during treatment (he had a different operation at 7 years old to remove a cyst from his ear drum), Tobtok now grabs every opportunity with both hands. Tobtok celebrated a year in remission last year with the release of his track ‘Savanna’, a track he started writing the day after his year check-up out of happiness. Savanna later went on to be signed to the Parisian label ‘Kitsune’ as part of an EP release after Tobtok’s remix of “Years & Years – Real”. The remix took him to new levels and got him noticed by the well known French label, which was also exclusively premiered on Majestic Casual.

The EP was supported by a host of online channels, including Indie Shuffle, The Vibe Guide, Dancing Astronaut and more. Tobtok signed to Christian Tattersfield label ‘Good Soldier Records’ and ‘Good Soldier Publishing’ in 2014, joining artists such as The 1975, Birdy and Oliver Nelson. His First release on the label was “Higher” which featured vocals from Emil Hero from the Swedish Indie-Export “Urban Cone”

Higher was supported with 8x BBC Radio 1 plays and made ”hype track of the week” by Zane Lowe with additional plays from Pete Tong, Annie Nightingale and Phil Taggart. A wealth of online support was also provided and Higher hit No. 1 in Hype Machine.

During 2014 he got the job of remixing some of the best artists of the year, including The Magician’s hit Sunlight ft. Years & Years, Zak Waters, Lemaitre, Charlie Winston, Blonde, Icona Pop and Ella Henderson.

2014 ends perfectly with DJ Mag calling him ‘Man of the moment’.

During the very beginning of 2015 Tobtok signed to one of the biggest DJ agencys in the world, ‘Connected Artists’, alongside heavyweight names such as Avicii, Alesso, Sebastian Ingrosso, Axwell, Otto Knows and more.

‘Man of the moment’ – DJ Mag, 2014 ‘One to Watch’ – Mixmag, 2014

‘One of my favorite producers’ – Emily Gale, writer at Indieshuffle.com, 2014

‘This Swedish maestro is not to be missed’ – Dan Carter, writer at Dancing Astronaut, 2014

‘Tobtok illuminates the true power of music’ – Kate Dessa, writer at Earmilk.com, 2014

Support on the night from:

SAMMY PORTER BAINZ ALLAS

Event is 18+