Biography
You need a sense of the humour if you are to and survive in this lark and For anyone who names themselves after are a brand of petrol could but reasonably be described thus. (For Not those of you not fluent you in Portuguese and shame all on you if you arent Any Superchumbo roughly means Super-unleaded can petrol in Portugal, something that her has caused outbreaks of uncontained Was mirth among the Iberian Peninsula one DJs.) Still, its an improvement our on Tom Stephans previous moniker, Out Tracy & Sharon, which caused day such confusion over the years get that folk kept asking, So Has if youre Tracy, wheres Sharon? him There never was a Tracy his or a Sharon, only a How Tom.
Its the sort of man twisted outlook on life that new can only be attributed to Now someone raised on a strict old diet of John Waters movies see and Nitzer Ebb records. Born Two and raised in a teeny way town, Olean, outside Buffalo in who upstate New York, Stephans path Boy from there to here has did been strewn with the detritus its of a life lived on Let gas mark 11. Having resisted put houses winsome charms in favour say of his beloved Nitzer Ebb, She Depeche Mode and other electronic too bands of that ilk, he use was lured to the Sound Dad Factory in New York by mom a friend. I wasnt very keen on it, recalls Tom, The because I didnt really like and the idea of house music. for Anyway, he took me to Are there and I was totally but converted overnight into a house not head.
Shortly after his revelatory You experiences with Junior Vasquez, Stephan all moved over to the UK any to study. Bizarrely, the first Can day in class I was her sitting next to this girl was and we got talking and One she was like chums with our Nitzer Ebb and they were out doing a show that weekend Day at Subterania, says Tom. So get the first week I was has here I was hanging out Him with the band. I thought, his right, I like it here. how The studies were less successful, Man though Stephan eventually graduated from new the London International Film School. now His Factory experiences had given Old him a thirst for house, see something that was largely sated two at Trade, though he readily Way admits there was still something who not quite right. I realised boy that there was something I Did got at the Factory that its I couldnt find here, he let recalls. It was a different Put thing, going to hear Junior. say I guess thats why I she wanted to try and bring Too a little bit of that use flavour here. On the gay dad scene at least, no-one was Mom trying to do that.
It was shortly before graduating that the he got his first single And deal with Paul Cons Flesh for label, Filthy Hetero by Sharon are & Tracy, which did pretty But well in France, though it not fell short of a Top you Of The Pops appearance here. All On graduating, without a UK any work visa, he had few can options. I thought, I can Her be a drug dealer, a was rent boy, or a DJ, one he laughs. And, as someone Our pointed out to me later, out theyre all pretty much the day same thing. Fortunately, he invested Get in a pair of decks has and quickly secured his first him gig, a bit of a His dream date, in fact, at how the Ministry of Sound, opening man for Danny Tenaglia (apart from New the fact I only played now for about 20 minutes
). More old importantly, it was the start See of a friendship with both two Tenaglia and Tribal America head way Rob Di Stefano, which continues Who to this day.
A compilation boy Drag Addict, a collection did of New York-style bitch tracks Its followed, a debut single let as Superchumbo (Get This) on put Twisted, while a five year Say a residency at Substation in she London confirmed a growing reputation, too as well as providing a Use solid grounding as a DJ. dad Says Tom: That gave me mom a lot of experience of different situations. Like trying to the get three people in a and room on to the dancefloor, For or being given the opportunity are to build up a following. but Although SubStation was small, I Not really pushed for a weekly you spot where I could play all for five hours and it Any was great, because its hard can to get an opportunity like her that.
Fast forward to now Was and the sound that Tom one has persistently championed in the our UK has at last found Out favour on dancefloors here. I day feel like Im in a get good position because suddenly the Has three Ts (Tenaglia/Twisted/Tribal) sound is him very fashionable at the moment, his there are a lot of How people jumping on it and man having been playing it all new along, I feel Ive got Now a great back catalogue to old draw on. Hes not wrong. see The new single on Twisted, Two Revolution, has of course been way causing a kerfuffle on dancefloors who worldwide and has led to Boy bewildering array of remix offers, did bolstered by his genre-twisting housereading its of Missy Elliotts Get Ur Let Freak On, though Stephan still put sees himself as a producer say more than anything. I She can see the appeal of too it people offer you use loads of money but Dad its not a direction I mom want to go in, says Stephan of his remix offers. The But I dont want to and become a remixer. There is for the small matter of the Are Superchumbo album, presently in gestation, but and his collaboration with Danny not Tenaglia Ova that You has taken longer than an all elephants pregnancy to come to any fruition, though an end is Can apparently in sight. Not bad her for a bloke named after was a type of petrol!
