Tama Sumo

Everything started in 1993 when Tama Sumo began playing at the Drama Bar in Berlin - one of the first bars where a resident DJ was spinning every weekend. It was also an important pre-party spot and one of the few locations where house music was played when techno was the dominant force. Tama then became a regular DJ at the gay Saturdays at Café Moskau, largely due to her penchant for playing New York style vocal house. Soon after, she was playing regularly at the legendary Globus/Tresor and became later became a resident DJ. There she developed her significant style by mixing tracks from other genres into her sets - something that she is still well known for. Since 2001 Tama Sumo also played at the ‘Dance With The Aliens’ party at the old Ostgut, the predecessor of Berghain, which eventually opened the door to a residency at the new Panoramabar and Berghain.

In the meantime, she developed a varied style ranging from house in all its forms, combined with minimalistic techno, old electro, disco and pop. This style can be descript as long on bass, sometimes melody, always deep, sexy, dirty, jacking, rough and funky.

At the beginning of 2008, she finally released her first record in collaboration with Prosumer. Both tracks ‘Play Up’ and ‘Brothers, Sisters’ are rough and funky and perfectly sum up Tama’s take on house music.

Tama´s definition of DJing is “…to be in touch with the audience without speaking and to interact with the crowd and give them what they need while staying true to myself at the same time.” Enjoy her mix for Electronic Beats Radio!

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