DJ Tomas is a veteran of the Los Angeles and San Francisco DJ and music scenes having lived and worked in both cities. He began DJing at age 16 on KSFH-FM high school radio station and from there went on to a 7-year residency at Los Angeles’s KXLU-FM 89.9.

While in LA, Tomas formed the Umoja Soundsystem DJ collective, broadcasted reggae and experimental music shows on tastemaker college radio station KXLU, and started a number of club nights (including the rare groove/hip-hop night B-Side, the all-ages after-hours ambient club Goa Dub and his two-years-running Umoja Jazz and Ragga lounge). Additionally, Tomas compiled CDs for Rhino Records and Quango, wrote for underground bible Urb Magazine and held numerous DJ residencies.

Relocating to San Francisco in 1996, Tomas continued to establish club nights devoted to underground electronic genres, including the successful Hedquarters, Static, pHusion and Overtone. Tomas began recording dance music as Live & Direkt and later as Double Identity for labels such as Ubiquity, Sunburn and K Records. In between constant DJing and production work, Tomas is currently the editor of XLR8R Magazine.

Moving more into production realms, Tomas is working on a number of recordings as Double Identity (Dub I.D.) and founded Voltage Music label in 2002.
Contact and booking: voltagemusic AT gmail DOT com
DJ Tomas Blog: forwardever.blogspot.com
Voltage Music Label: myspace.com/voltagemusiclabel