Biography
DJ, producer, and songwriter Tommie Sunshine links dance, rock, pop, and fashion circles through his distinctive projects. Club versions of tracks by household names such as Katy Perry, Fallout Boy, and Elvis Presley have come from his studio, while festival stages devoted to EDM and runway events have featured him as a headliner. His broad command of music history together with candid opinions has secured appearances across talk formats and radio broadcasts. After gaining recognition in the American rave community throughout the 1990s, he emerged as a prominent voice in the electroclash wave of the early 2000s and helped lay groundwork for the EDM surge of the following decade. Selections of his reworkings for acts including Panic! At the Disco and Gang of Four appear on the 2007 collection Ultra.Rock Remixed, and original material has surfaced on his Xylophone Jones and Brooklyn Fire imprints as well as on Heldeep and Armada.
Born Thomas Lorello, he spent his formative years near Chicago and began frequenting house venues during the 1980s. A trip to New York City that included attendance at the final Frankie Bones Storm Raves in the early 1990s prompted him to start spinning at Midwest events. Several years followed in Georgia, where he operated the Atlanta shop Satellite Records and held a pair of club residencies, before he returned to Chicago and launched the nights ElectroSweat and Degeneration. At the height of electroclash he supplied remixes for Fischerspooner and the Faint, co-wrote the Felix da Housecat single “Silver Screen-Shower Scene,” and contributed to DJ Hell’s 2003 album NY Muscle. From his Brooklyn base he issued the first original single, “Dance Among the Ruins,” on Xylophone Jones in 2004. His debut mix CD arrived as Systematic Sessions, Vol. 2 (with Marc Romboy) in 2006 and showcased twitchy electro and tech-house; the following year Ultra.Rock Remixed marked his initial Ultra Records outing. The 2008 set Relax, This Won’t Hurt gathered tracks and reworkings by Diplo, Boys Noize, and Crookers that captured the leading edge of contemporary electro-house. He also supplied music for Konami’s 2008 Dance Dance Revolution title DDRX and later entries in the series.
Early in the 2010s he founded Brooklyn Fire and put out electro-house material alongside Bart B More and Disco Fries as well as vocalists Tiffany Roth and Kid Sister. Festival bills at Electric Daisy Carnival and Ultra Music Festival, plus dates alongside Afrojack, Skrillex, and Zedd, reflected EDM’s mainstream ascent during that decade. Mid-decade singles carried co-production credits from Fast Eddie and DJ Funk, underscoring his Midwest heritage, while additional partnerships involved the veteran Dutch duo Chocolate Puma and younger talents such as Krunk! and Funky Craig.
Born Thomas Lorello, he spent his formative years near Chicago and began frequenting house venues during the 1980s. A trip to New York City that included attendance at the final Frankie Bones Storm Raves in the early 1990s prompted him to start spinning at Midwest events. Several years followed in Georgia, where he operated the Atlanta shop Satellite Records and held a pair of club residencies, before he returned to Chicago and launched the nights ElectroSweat and Degeneration. At the height of electroclash he supplied remixes for Fischerspooner and the Faint, co-wrote the Felix da Housecat single “Silver Screen-Shower Scene,” and contributed to DJ Hell’s 2003 album NY Muscle. From his Brooklyn base he issued the first original single, “Dance Among the Ruins,” on Xylophone Jones in 2004. His debut mix CD arrived as Systematic Sessions, Vol. 2 (with Marc Romboy) in 2006 and showcased twitchy electro and tech-house; the following year Ultra.Rock Remixed marked his initial Ultra Records outing. The 2008 set Relax, This Won’t Hurt gathered tracks and reworkings by Diplo, Boys Noize, and Crookers that captured the leading edge of contemporary electro-house. He also supplied music for Konami’s 2008 Dance Dance Revolution title DDRX and later entries in the series.
Early in the 2010s he founded Brooklyn Fire and put out electro-house material alongside Bart B More and Disco Fries as well as vocalists Tiffany Roth and Kid Sister. Festival bills at Electric Daisy Carnival and Ultra Music Festival, plus dates alongside Afrojack, Skrillex, and Zedd, reflected EDM’s mainstream ascent during that decade. Mid-decade singles carried co-production credits from Fast Eddie and DJ Funk, underscoring his Midwest heritage, while additional partnerships involved the veteran Dutch duo Chocolate Puma and younger talents such as Krunk! and Funky Craig.
Albums

Tommie Sunshine presents: Ignition Vol. 5
2021

Tommie Sunshine presents: Ignition, Vol. 4
2021

Tommie Sunshine Presents: America, Fuck Yeah! 3 Return Of The Jedi
2021

Tommie Sunshine presents: Ignition Vol. 2
2021

Tommie Sunshine Presents: Ignition, Vol. 1
2021

Tommie Sunshine presents: Fresh Cakes, Vol. 4
2021

Tommie Say It's A Vibe
2020

America, Fuck Yeah 2: Electric Boogaloo
2020

Can't Get Enough
2016

Shake That
2015

Alright
2015

We Are Stars
2015

Front 2tha Back
2015

The Man
2015

Tommie Sunshine Presents Ultra.Rock Remixed
2013

Tokyo Pollution
2013

Dance Among the Ruins
2013

Never Slow
2011

Relax, This Wont Hurt
2008
Singles

Run Away
2025

My Buddy's Trippin'
2025

Acid Trip
2025

Arpetha
2024

Act A Fool
2024

Dark
2024

Electro Electro
2023

Get Dirty
2023

Heavy
2023

Release
2023

Last Christmas 2022
2022

Take Me Dancin' (Tommie Sunshine & On Deck Remix)
2022

Turn Up The Bass (There It Is Remix)
2021

Feel Something More
2021

SMF (DJ Yukie Remix)
2021

Social Club (J. Slai Remix)
2021

Warehouse Rave (Use Caution Remix)
2021

Don't Look Back
2021

Get Down
2021

Untouchable (Bexxie Remix)
2021

Warehouse Rave
2021

Golden (Tommie Sunshine & Breikthru Remix)
2021

Heartbeat
2021

Burning With XTC (Use Caution Remix)
2021

Brick by Brick (Valy Mo Remix)
2021

Raise 'Em Up
2021

Brick by Brick
2020

Burning With XTC
2020

SMF
2020

Underground Rave
2020

Na Na (Tommie Sunshine & Disco Fries Remix)
2020

Thunda Poundz Undaground
2020

1998 And Some EP
2020

Turn Up The Bass
2020

Start Now
2020

Sound Of Your Heart
2020

Fuck You Good
2020

Brick By Brick (Vol2Cat Remix)
2020

Svojsice
2020

Falling In Love Will Kill You
2020

Spiders (AFK Remix)
2019

BLACKOUT
2019

Need You
2019

Social Club
2019

Help Me (Tommie Sunshine Edit)
2019

The Power (feat. Snap!)
2019

Squats
2019

Can't Get Enough
2019

Ravolution
2019

#RaveRevival
2019

Get Louder (B!tch Be Cool Remix)
2018

Spiders
2018

Intoxicated
2018

Do You Remember Rave?
2018

Save The Rave
2018

Get Louder
2018

Zoned
2018

Tear This Mother Down (feat. MX2)
2018

Lately
2018

Dance 2 Your Heartbeat
2018

Hook That Hits
2016

Check This Out!
2016

Rise N Shine (feat. Poo Bear)
2016

Take The Ride
2016

BANG BOOM
2016

Scrub The Ground (feat. DJ Funk)
2015

Chalwa
2015

Shake That
2015

Caveman
2015

Just Can't
2015

We Are Stars
2015

Front 2tha Back
2015

Blue Screen Of Death (Radio Edit)
2015

The Man
2014

Supa Hot Fiya
2014

Tonight's the Night
2013

Concentrate
2011