DJ Tominen aka Thomas Sebastian has been making music since the age of 11, in early 1990s influenced by top artists like Paul van Dyk, Shiller, ATB, Armin van Buuren, Talla 2xlc, to name a few. He glued himself to a style, dominated, and never switched!
So far Tominen has performed in more than 1000 gigs, composed of both major shows as well as small private parties. He has performed as lead act in several carnival, music festivals across India! He is currently the resident DJ at AvA Lounge, Dream Kochi, and has been holding the fort for over a year! He has also held residency at Zaika (Hamilton, New Zealand) and performed in numerous other clubs and events in New Zealand.
Tominen has also acted as opening set for Tenishia (Cyprus), Closing set for Dale Anderson (UK), Opening set for Mike Shiver (Sweden) at the SunBurn Reloaded 2013. He played a key role Island Music Festival 2014, highlighting many international artists, and also acted as Emcee & Stage Manager for the event.
Back in 2008, Tominen won 2 DJ competitions back to back, among them one was War of DJ’s Kerala, which was a national level competition. He was also voted as the #1 DJ in Kerala through CLUB FM’s poll in 2013, and another interesting fact is that he has been sold out to capacity for the past 3 New Year events. The pool side parties organized by Tominen and associates “The Saturday Splash” has became a huge hit. 2012 saw Tominen being a more active participant for the nourishment of Trance music, and he kick started his weekly cloud cast sessions known as Get Tranceformed with Tominen, which became a huge success that soon the local radio stations started airing the sessions.
Tominen has shared the stage with Nikhil Chinnapa, Ben Gold, Jaytech and Naved Khan in Island Music Festival 2014, with DJ Shadow at Valentine’s Day 2014 Party, with DJ Tejas & DJ Shireen Aida Khan at Desi Vibes. Some of his most noticed shows were the Templar Effect concerts in Kochi, Mangalore & Calicut, New Year Splash Pool Party at Crowne Plaza, Kochi, Bollywood Dhamaka at Gokulam Convention Centre, New Year 2013 and Closing set at Saturday Splash Dec 2013 featuring Vinayaka.
Tominen is also part of the artist duo Templar Effect and has performed and produced several records under the name! Demo’s of Tominen’s tracks are provided upon request, for the time being only demo’s will be available as none of the tracks have been officially released yet!