Tommie Sunshine (born Thomas Lorello; March 26, 1971) is a record producer, remixer, DJ and songwriter of electronic music from Chicago currently living in Brooklyn, New York. He is known for creating dance remixes to popular rock and alternative songs.

Biography

Early life

Lorello grew up in Naperville, Illinois. During the 1980s he became interested in DJ mixes he heard on the radio and began attending house-music clubs in the city such as Medusa's. In the early '90s, he traveled to New York City to attend the last "Storm Rave" being thrown by DJ Frankie Bones, which lead to him performing as a popular DJ at raves throughout the Midwest.

Career

Sunshine presently works alongside The Disco Fries and also as a trio with Bart B More and RipTidE under the name Horsepower. In the past he has collaborated with artists such as Felix Da Housecat, Miss Kittin, Marc Romboy, Mark Verbos,

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, James Murphy and DJ Hell. In 2006 Tommie Sunshine remixed the hit songs from the album "You'll Rebel to Anything," "Shut Me Up" and "Straight to Video" by "Mindless Self Indulgence" for their EP "Shut Me Up (The Remixes + 3)." In the same year, he also remixed another hit song by the same band, "What Do They Know," for the band's other EP, "Another Mindless Rip Off." In 2007, Sunshine released a

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on the Ultra Records label as part of their dance compilation CD series titled ''

Ultra.Rock Remixed ''Ultra. Rock Remixed'' is a mixed dance/rock compilation album from Ultra Records. It was mixed by Tommie Sunshine and released on March 20, 2007. Track listing Disc one: #"The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage ...

'' containing some of his most popular remixes. The follow-up mix CD, Relax This Won't Hurt, was released October 2008. In 2008, he remixed Yoko Ono's new version of " Give Peace a Chance" for a 12" on

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, which reached the number 1 position on

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's Hot Dance Club Play Chart. He re-affiliated himself with "Mindless Self Indulgence," remixing their hit song from their "If" album, "Never Wanted to Dance". In 2010, Sunshine remixed Amanda Lear's new single "

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". Two years later, he created a megamix of Katy Perry hit singles: "

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", " California Gurls", " The One That Got Away", "

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" and " Firework". Named "Tommie Sunshine's Megasix Smash-Up", it was featured on '' Teenage Dream: The Complete Confection''. Tommie Sunshine was also involved in the music production for Konami's 2008 Dance Dance Revolution video game, ''

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''. He contributed two of his new songs, along with his "Brooklyn Fire Re-Touch" mix of ''Wine Red'' by The Hush Sound. Sunshine would continue to contribute original compositions for the series' later installments on the Nintendo Wii, as well as the '' DDR 2013'' and '' DDR 2014'' arcade releases.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sunshine, Tommie 1971 births American DJs Record producers from Illinois Living people Musicians from Chicago DJs from Chicago Place of birth missing (living people) Remixers Songwriters from Illinois