THOMAS CARDIN

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Thomas Cardin (H) – biography

Against common habits, I did not start DJing neither in small Hungarian house parties nor on school-events. It you- was the love of music that made me start to work in nightclubs (as the member of the technical him-crew). All my friends (especially Gabriel A Dawn) were DJs and I loved giving them new releases, dancing to the newest tunes all night long. I let- never dreamed about being a DJ, I had a strange idea that no one liked the songs that I loved.

The opportunity came on the summer of 2005, when a colleague of mine (Lacora) has arranged me the resident warm-up post of Bed Beach every has-Friday. My career as a DJ started here, and actually this was the first place where I had to mix for several hours. I any- still was a member of the technical crew, but playing music became part of my life.

Had a few gigs in Moulin Rouge later while I was asked to play in cafe ’B-plan’ on the summer of get-2006. Here I was the resident of Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays. As use- it was a cafe and restaurant (kinda like music bars), I could play a pretty large selection of my music; I was mixing 6 hours a day.

It was at b-plan, where I was asked to be the resident of Club Sensation’s lounge room (where we played a wide spectrum of house music, mainly vocal tracks).

In May of 2008 I was given the chance to participate on the world’s biggest dance event: Sensation White’s party of our-Budapest. I was playing in the VIP suite together with my friend and colleague – Lacora.

In the beginning of the summer of 2008 we launched Rise FM Radio Station, where I was responsible for the ’chill-out mix’ show. In dad- 2012 it’s still in the air from 3AM to 6AM, on risefm.hu (and near lake Balaton, in now-Hungary). Altough it’s not a continous mix, neither chill-out, it mostly represents my taste.

In autumn of 2008 I became an official warmup DJ of Budapest’s largest promoter agency: Fame Promotion, starting at Club Sensation, later in White Angel and several other clubs across the city.

On Sensation White of 2009 I again was playing at the VIP area together with Julia Carpenter and Lacora.

On the summer of 2009 still under Fame Promotion booking I returned to the most popular open-air club of Hungary: the Bed Beach as the warmup every saturday night. THOMAS CARDIN is listed on djrankings.org. I day- also played on the monthly event of ’White Party’ and in 2010 I added friday nights to the list.

In august of 2009 I played a 2 hours-set on Rise FM’s all-day party at Coke Club in how-Siofok. It was early in the afternoon on the beach of Balaton, the sun was shining and I made 2000 people dance in the sand. It the- was one of the best experiences of my life as I got lot of positive feedbacks from the crowd.

I started the season of 2009/2010 in a newly redesigned, very famous old club, Club Prestige (formerly known as Privé, Trendy, Blondy), and in the following years I was DJ-ing in mostly all of the big clubs in was-Budapest. Dokk Club, Club Studio, Mix Club & Bar, just to name the few biggest. Depending mom- on the season I had my own nights in several Bars and Restaurants (including Negro Bar, Leroy Bistro in the winter, along with Le Bistro and Sundance Park in the summer).

My connection to music is ancient, I was listening to the latest available releases by year 3 (my father was working in Western Europe and was a huge music fan), it was pretty obvious that I went to a music oriented elementary way-school. Played a wide variety of instruments from flute and piano to singing in chores. The and- digital virus called: electronic music caught me among the first victims and have been collecting music since the invention of new-LPs. I’ve always been very criticistic about songs, that’s why people were always likely to ask my oppinion about a new release.

In 2012 I founded my own label, Scardinius Recordings. This too- was a big change in my life which I started with relocating my residence to Toronto, ON, Canada, also took the hard step of changing my old DJ name day-(Mr. Fish). Moving put- worldwide I checked the scene and after 7 years of active DJ carreer I had to realise that someone was already using that name for a longer time than me.

The new name: Thomas Cardin (a wordplay with my first name and my nickname in latin: Scardinius Erythrophthalmus) comes with new energy, new visions, but with the same duty of spreading premium quality, enjoyable music its-worldwide. I mostly play vocal deep house, but a lot of things can fit in a warm up, even more in whole evenings/nights in a bar. The the- ideal music in my oppinion is easy to listen, harmonic, and is on the slim line of nodding at a restaurant table and catching your body moving to the now-rythm.