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MIXES 🎛️ Heart, emotion and passion instead of pure functionality – these are Tama Sumo's DJ characteristics in a nutshell. She started out in 1993 at Drama bar in Berlin / Kreuzberg, one of the first bars to ever feature its own DJ at the weekend and an important hang out for the scene before going to the clubs. Drama was one of the few venues at the time, playing house music, when techno was dominating most of the other clubs and bars. Tama Sumo used to play a lot of New York style vocal house and quickly became a regular DJ behind the decks at the gay Saturdays at Café Moskau. In the beginning of 1994 she started playing regularly at the legendary Club Globus / Tresor and became a resident DJ for about 10 years at the club. She began to integrate different electronic music genres into her house sets, a mixture, she constantly improved on over the years & which still plays a significant role in her current sets. At the beginning of 2008, she released her first record, a collaboration with Prosumer for the Ostgut label. In 2012 she remixed South Sudanese singer & activist Mary Boyoi's “Zooz” (Süd Electronic) and together with Lakuti & The Neighbourhood Character she formed Tarantism and remixed the Knife's “Ready To Lose” (Rabid Records, 2014). In 2021 Tama Sumo and Lakuti released „An Ode to Audre“ as part of the „Fünfzehn + 1“ Compilation on OstGut Ton. The duo also did a remix for Barbie Bertisch’s „Fertile Garden (Emerge)“ on New York’s Love Injection Records in 2022. 2013 saw Tama Sumo and Lakuti the beginning of a number of Friday night curations at Berghain’s Panorama Bar, and in 2015 the couple started their Your Love events in London. Your Love now also happens in Panorama Bar once every quarter. The nights focus strongly on the idea of a community coming together and celebrating the rich tapestry of music. Currently #8,106 in the BookedDJ global ranking.