Tommy Four Seven

Tommy Four Seven, a British-born producer and DJ specializing in electronic music, first cultivated his passion for studio work at age 12. Following his departure from college he completed a music-technology degree while sharpening his turntable technique, which earned him a weekly slot at London’s Fire Club. His debut track “Eat Me” surfaced in 2006 once he forwarded a demo to David Duriez’s imprint Brique Rouge; further 12"s on that label and its harder-edged sister imprint Kill Brique helped him refine a distinctive strain of tech-house. In 2008 he founded Shooting Elvis, a platform that issued several vinyl singles and brought him into collaboration with James Kronier.

A white-label 12" bearing only the word Bauhaus appeared the next year, its two cuts—marked by abrasive industrial textures and relentless, propulsive rhythms—quickly drew notice across the techno community. The anonymous project was later revealed to be the partnership of veteran Chris Liebing and Tommy Four Seven, marking a decisive shift in the latter’s sonic direction. “Sor,” Tommy Four Seven’s inaugural outing on Liebing’s CLR Records, advanced this approach by foregrounding intricate sound design, and in 2010 he began work on his first full-length album. With Liebing’s engineering input the project bypassed conventional synthesizers and software in favor of field recordings, sculpted noise, and processed voices, yielding a stark, subterranean strain of industrial techno. The double A-side “Armed 3/Ratu” emerged in 2011, followed several months later by the album Primate.