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Tom Novy

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Persistence, steadiness, and creativity are three virtues you won’t find too often, especially in the German Dance-scene. Since his first single “I houseyou” from 1995 Munich’s DJ and producer Tom Novy managed to emancipate more and more from all models with remarkable constancy and created a unique and extremely danceable sound between House, Dance, and Funk.

This process has now reached a temporary peak on his debut album “My Definition” on which hit follows after hit. With the new single “Welcome to the Race”, recorded with singer Lima Ben-Jannett’s energetic support, Tom Novy impressively demonstrates in what league he’s playing now. It’s not for no reason that his songs have become more and more succesfull outside Germany too.

Also as a DJ he is presently in greater demand than ever, as his co-operation with the legendary English Dance-Label Ministry of Sound clearly shows. Tom Novy was the first German DJ to do a mix of the “Annual” compilation together with Boy George, and they took the charts in England and Germany by storm at the end of last year. And with the single “Pumpin”, recorded together with Eniac he even scored a number 19 in the English charts in June 2000. On the 14th of August the English hit-specialists are finally going to throw “I Rock” in the race for the charts-throne too. The remixes he did for artists like Tom Jones & Mousse T. (”Sexbomb”), Lou Bega (”Mambo #5″), and Eddie Amador (”Rise”), to mention only the best known ones, also added to his international reputation.

The rich experience Tom Novy was able to gather in his numerous appearances as a DJ during the last 15 years make for another bonus. “This experience definetely has an effect on my work as a producer too. You simply become more open stylistically. “I started my DJ-carreer with HipHop. Then, at the beginning of the 90s I discovered Techno. Presently, House is my passion. Even today I’d love to combine all kinds of different styles in my sets but that’s become almost impossible because people always expect one certain sound from me. Unfortunately, thinking in rather narrow categories has definetely become more popular. Many people refuse to combine things even though HipHop, House, and also Techno have far more in common than it may first appear.

The globalization has reached a state at which it doesn’t really matter anymore.whether you’re playing in New York, Amsterdam or Tokyo. You almost always meet the kind of people whose first priority is to have fun.”“Tom Novy’s persistance, steadiness, and creativity have largely contributed to this history of success and the release of “My Definition” is surely not the end of it.