“Tom Harding represents the new school of dance music” Mixmag 2003

Tom Harding has been pioneering underground dance music on the dance floors of Europe for the past ten years. Having won awards from Mixmag, Club UK and Muzik, he quickly found himself plunged into the DJing super league and, before he knew it, was spinning alongside such legends as Carl Cox, Andy Weatherall and Laurent Garnier at the tender age of 19. With a high profile start like this it is perhaps not surprising that a decade later Tom is regarded as a leading light on the international dance music scene. It was when Tom headlined the 60,000 strong Dance Valley festival in Holland billed above the likes of Carl Cox, Hardfloor and Goldie that he truly came of age. Since then he has been the subject of BBC, ITV, TMF and MTV documentaries, notched up three number one selling albums in the Dutch charts and has exported his unique brand of dance music across the globe from Ibiza to Australia and from Israel to Japan.

He still holds his 10 year residency at the legendary HQ club night in Amsterdam and is not only responsible for bringing British dance music to Holland, but also shaping the Dutch dance scene as a whole. Before Tom’s arrival and the HQ phenomenon few had heard of hard dance in Holland and now, a decade on, it is the largest scene in the country which goes some way towards explaining why Tom has been voted Holland’s most popular international DJ four times.

After investing so much of his career exporting ‘Hard Dance to Holland’ it seems only fitting that Tom should spend some time paying back his native England. Through his involvement with Nukleuz, in 2003 Tom embarked on a residency for Frantic in London and headlined every Hard House Academy event that year. This, along with support from Mixmag, Muzik and IDJ Magazine, has led to a string of bookings at all the major clubs in the UK from Good Greef, Passion and Sundissential in the North to Wildchild and the Ministry of Sound in the South.

As far as his studio production is concerned, Tom looks set to mirror the success that he enjoys as a DJ. His high profile collaboration with Nick Sentience on Nukleuz received great critical acclaim and since then he has gone on to remix Ferry Corsten’s System F alias and collaborate with Marzz on Holland’s Detox records. His latest co-production with Scott Mac has received some serious radio play by Judge Jules on BBC Radio One and he has recently co-bought the Recover Group, which includes the Recover and Discover record labels as an outlet for his own productions.

2005 represents a new era in Tom’s already legendary career. Having introduced hard dance to Holland Tom is now expanding his musical boundaries to include trance and techno in his sets. Not one to rest on his laurels, Tom is once again pushing the limits of dance music worldwide, which is why:

“You can expect big things from this man” Muzik Magazine