Roman Böer (; born 9 June 1974), better known as DJ Tocadisco, formerly Tocadisco (, Spanish for "turntable"), is a German DJ and

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Biography

Born in

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, the son of the photographer and media designer Gerry Böer. He grew up in

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, where he also regularly hangs at the club "Die Nacht" ("the night"). In 1996, Tocadisco began his professional career as a DJ at Club Unique in Düsseldorf. The club was elected as the "best club in town" during his stint by the magazine Prinz. In 2000 Tocadisco moved to Cologne and taught there at a studio. He produced several remixes for different record companies. The best-known case was "Lifetimes" by Slam. His mix was chosen as one of the 12 best remixes of 2001 by the readers of the magazine Groove. In October 2003, he signed a contract with the German record company Superstar Recordings. His first single under this label was "Nobody (Likes the Records That I Play)". It reached number 39 in the German charts. In 2005, Tocadisco was chosen by the magazine Raveline as one of the best newcomers of 2004. Tocadisco's remix of

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's In My Arms became one of the most played dance tracks of the year. This was followed by his second single "You're No Good for Me" 'and then the double single Music Loud / Crazy Cursor. Tocadisco published a series of club EP's under the pseudonym: "AC / OT" courtesy of Superstar Recordings, In 2006, Tocadisco remixed a track by Michael Cretu's project "Enigma - Eppur si muove" of Enigma's latest album A Posteriori. His remix for The Egg's "Walking Away" was chosen by

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for the advertising campaign for the C4 hatchback. Furthermore,

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took the instrumental and mixed it with one of his songs, " Love Don't Let Me Go". This bootleg version became "David Guetta vs. The Egg" - "

Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away) "Love Don't Let Me Go (Walking Away)" was released as a mash-up of DJ Tocadisco's remix of The Egg's single "Walking Away" with the vocals of Chris Willis from David Guetta's 2002 single " Love Don't Let Me Go". The mash-up was first performe ...

", reaching No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart. On 25 January 2008, his first album ''Solo'' was released. In August of the same year, the song "Tomorrow Can Wait" featuring David Guetta and Chris Willis was released to some success. He has produced with New Order, Tiga, David Guetta, Kelis, Fatboy Slim, Robin Schulz, Steve Angello, Axwell, Armin van Buuren and many more music producers and writers. On September 18, 2009, his second album, ''TOCA 128.0 FM'', appeared on the German dance label, Superstar Recordings. In 2009 he got married with the Brazilian model Natasha Garcez, together they created a well known party named "Tocacabana" where have guests like Avicci, David Guetta and AfroJack. 2011 saw the single "Tequila Sunrise", which was published in cooperation with the Dutch producer

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Discography

Albums

*''Solo'' (2008) *''IV'' (2016) *''Chuchotage'' (2021) *''FR3E''

Singles

Remixes

References

External links

Official website

Official Myspace

Discogs: Tocadisco

Tocadisco ''Essential Mix''
{{DEFAULTSORT:Tocadisco German house musicians German remixers Musicians from Berlin 1974 births Living people German electronic dance music DJs