Music Professor, Producer, & DJ
DR.TOM is a university professor of music by day and a music producer by night. He is known for his all original DJ sets filled with erudite bangers. If you like artists like Deadmau5, No Mana, NTO, and Worakls, then you'll feel right at home.
Professor by day, DJ by night
Welcome to Class: 2025 Tour
As an award winning music scholar, university music professor, and classical pianist, it is perhaps no surprise that DR.TOM is rapidly rising in the underground electronic music scene. He is known for his performances at legendary pop-ups including the prison yard of a historic penitentiary, a cathedral, and beautiful outdoor parks. He is also resident DJ at Space Banana in Boise, Idaho.With original music that is equal parts enveloping, erudite, and cinematic, you'll find yourself on a journey with euphoric builds, powerful drops, and complex and enveloping harmonic progressions.
Community, Underground, Inspiring
Core Values
DR.TOM aims to build community, inspire the underground electronic music scene, and create opportunities for others. In 2024, he founded "Under the Trees," a nonprofit organization dedicated to building community around underground electronic music, advancing land stewardship, and creating a welcoming atmosphere for all. He also serves as the creative director of an iconic, underground nightclub and runs these pursuits alongside his full time job as a professor of music where he teaches classes on Beethoven, Music Production, Music, Movies, and Video Games, and more.
Cinematic Progressive House
Helios (Spring 2025)
With its intricate layering of symphonic strings, powerful analogue supersaws, and biting arpeggiated plucks, "Helios" will take you on a cinematic journey. You'll hear inspiration from Deadmau5's iconic progressive house structures alongside intriguing harmonic progressions evocative of Beethoven.
Electro House
Gimme What I want (Spring 2025)
With powerful cinematic builds a touch of vocals, and a grinding dutch-house inspired lead, "gimme what I want" brings a relentless, electro house energy reminiscent of tracks by No Mana, Wolfgang Gartner, and early Deadmau5.
Progressive House
Knee Deep (Spring 2025)
Inspired by a relentless chase, "Knee Deep" explores the complexities of human connections with large builds, surprising drop-sections, and intricate vocal layering. A carefully coordinated tapestry of interwoven synths amplify the central message and keep this track on repeat.
Cinematic Progressive House
Under Trees (Spring 2025)
Inspired by Under the Trees and Deadmau5's "Strobe," "Under Trees" creates a cinematic, progressive arc with a massive synth-laden payoff not unlike Deadmau5's iconic work. The biting arpeggiated pluck is accentuated by symphonic sounding pads alongside organic strings and sounds inspired by nature.