My Pasteboard Stuff — May 27, 2009  

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  About Me — May 27, 2009  

DJ Tomas (Umoja Soundsystem/Voltage Music) is a man of many aliases – his most famous being Double Identity, his producer title. This makes sense since he’s a double Gemini who’s played drums in bands, DJ’ed for over 15 years, written for Urb and XLR8R magazine, and hosted radio shows since the late-80s.

The Bay Area native cut his teeth as a reggae radio DJ in high school and also at college station KXLU in LA. He began spinning clubs in 1990 and co-founded (with DJ Daz) the Umoja Soundsystem, a seven man multicultural, multi-genre music crew. While primarily a reggae sound, Umoja also plays hip-hop, soul, electronic, house, broken beat, Latin and Afrobeat – a unity of cultures and ethnicities through music.

On the production side, DJ Tomas has recorded as Double Identity for his own Voltage Music label, Bastard Jazz, Ubiquity and others. He's released five nujazz/broken beat-style singles as Double Identity, and has remixes and tracks floating around the internet under his dub/dubstep alter ego Dub I.D.

He cohosts the Friday Night Session, 10 p.m. Fridays on KUSF 90.3 FM.

Bio: http://www.sfdjs.org/dj/DJTomas

Blog: http://forwardever.blogspot.com

Umoja Crew Blog: http://umojhifi.blogspot.com

Radio: Fridays 10pm-12am KUSF 90.3FM www.fridaynightsession.com

Label: myspace.com/voltagemusiclabel

Contact: tomasp AT sbcglobal DOT net

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