Name Tom (kat) Evans Age: 33, virgo power
Live: Berkeley CA usa Born: Pittsburgh PA Into Techno since: 1994 into electronics dance music since 1992 (loved those funky breaks), rave was a great break from the punk scene and it's punker than thou stuckupidness Music that got me into detroit techno: T1000 in 1995 in a basement of an internet startup. It blew my head off and skooled me. The next week I ordered a bunch of records from submerge. First detroit record to blow my ears off: x-101 UR 13, one of the first records I bought from a friend Fave techno Clubs: Mad in SF circa 95 & 96, they brought out a ton of detroit people and hawtin and mr. c. and alec empire and just about everybody that was interesting me. They were on a monday night too. Fave labels: UR, tresor, chain reaction, escaton, scape, database, perlon, blue Label whose back catalogue I'd I'd most like to magically appear in my kompakt Track that I would sell my own grandmother to own: I am post obsession, but when I really want something sometimes I dream about it and then go to the record store and it is there. Um, magic? PS I entertain looking at people's want lists...like all junkies I have record shopped all over the world and have 3-5 crates that I am trying to cycle out of my collection. so send them to me, I sell on ebay under 23tomcat, but would rather keep such things out of their greasy hands... Best ever DJ performance: Hawtin from a couple of years ago, Miss kitten from last year, dickweed just kidding, luciano for the best 1 hour set paxahau, once a year me Best live gig: Zoviet France in 2001 SF. Deadbeat/monolake from 2 years ago Best Record shop: in the US, over the years Open Mind Music has given me almost everything a eclectic dj could ever lust for. I liked Formic in Cologne, they had the same records as Kompakt but at half the prices. Used shops in berlin were really great to but this was in 2000. Record collector or DJ? I have a few thousand records, I play out less than 5 times a year. shame
