Tobi Neumann was a late bloomer, but he made up for lost time in no time. The Munich native had a career producing commercial jingles and movie soundtracks, but became infected by electronic music after a fateful trip to Berlin’s Love Parade at the age of 33. Tobi Neumann, a Berlin resident for the past decade is now a resident DJ and artist for clubbing giant Cocoon and indisputably one of the most highly recognised and highly respected personalities in electronic music.

1996 was the year that everything changed. After visiting Berlin’s infamous techno street party, Tobi returned home with a renewed sense of purpose.  After two years devoted to honing his style, Tobi approached influential Munich club Ultraschall II in 1998 with a demo and a proposal to become their occasional warm-up DJ. The club declined, and instead offered Tobi a weekly residency. Tobi and Marcus Kanzler christened the night Flokati House Club. Flokati’s defining sound was US house, and they launched with legendary Chicago producer Chez Damier as their first ever guest.

A second crucial influence on Tobi's career has been his long association with the legendary Sven Väth. The pair met in Ibiza in the summer of 1999, and Sven invited Tobi to join him and a crew of friends in Thailand to celebrate the turn of the millennium. Tobi accepted the invite, and decided to pack some records as well, by chance. Fortuitously, he was asked to DJ at the last minute and the set proved to be the most important that he ever played, and it amplified his career almost immediately. Soon after he returned to Europe the invites began pouring in: for his Cocoon debut in Ibiza, his still existing residency @ the Robert Johnson, to U60311, and to Anja Schneider's annual 72-hour Love Parade broadcast in Berlin. Increasingly aware of his isolation in Munich, Tobi moved to Berlin in 2001, and he joined the Cocoon agency the following year, and launched into an ever growing schedule of DJ bookings in Germany, Europe, and further afield.

Production work has been a vital creative outlet for Tobi, and has reinforced him as one of the driving forces of electronic music. He regards original productions, collaborations, remixes and DJ mixes with equal importance, and his raw talent and diversity have seen him at the controls for Chicks On Speed and Miss Kittin, shifting 60,000 gold-certified units with his hit “Meeting The Girls Mix” rework of 2Raumwohnung’s “Sexy Girl”, being licensed for John Digweed’s Transitions series, and recording celebrated sets for Cocoon, Secretsundaze and V Records.

In recent years, with his international commitments accelerating, Tobi has scaled back his production work to focus on his first love: being a DJ. He is a true veteran in the booth and continues to be invigorated by nightlife, relishing the give & take with the dancefloor, playing techno at house tempo, and house at techno tempo, throwing in unexpected selections, and mixing with his unique signature flair. From his defining Fabric debut, to his recent epic 8-hour session for Panorama Bar, to the terrace of Amnesia, and amongst the sweaty throng of Robert Johnson, Tobi is a master of the craft, working with and for the crowd, and driving them, willingly, to wild abandon.