TOBIAS HOPPE

Tobias Hoppe (DJ-name: H.O.P.E.) was born in 1982 in Nordhausen, Germany. He grew up in Linden near Frankfurt/Main. In the age of 5 years he started to play the piano (until the age of 13). His mother was a singer and keyboard player in a pop band. Therefore he got in contact with music in his life very early and he listened to musicians like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Jean Michel Jarre, George Michael, Sting etc.

He discovered his love for electronic music very late, in the year 1999 when he heard his first DJ set played by Taucher. So he began to search for new experiences and started to visit a lot of clubs and parties. It was only a matter of time that he bought himself a pair of turntables and a mixer. He started to play his first sets in his bedroom with hard trance in the beginning of 2001. In the spring of this year he made his university-entrance diploma. A few months later he heard progressive house the first time and fell in love with this kind of music (especially with “Cass & Slide – Perception) because this music was impressive deep and diversified in contrast to the commercial trance music.

From this moment he only bought prog house vinyls. In autumn of this year he started to study chemistry at the “Justus Liebig University in Giessen. In the end of 2001 he got his first gig at the radio show “Monday Night Madness” on Radio-Unity.net. His set was so impressive that he joined this show as a resident DJ and moderator in March 2002 and called the radio show “UK-Only”. The show took place every Monday and there he played together with DJ’s like Oliver Klein, Taucher, Björn Mandry, Björn Small, Thomas Weiss etc. During this time he became resident DJ at the nice little club “Go-In” in Gelnhausen and had a lot of gigs especially in the Frankfurt area.

In December 2003 the station closed because of insolvency. At the same time Tobias started to produce his first self-made music. After the insolvency he only got very few gigs and got more and more unsuccessful and he decided to focus on producing music and discovered the fascination of making new sounds, melodies and noises. After more than 2 years of producing he took the courage to send his music to a few labels and got contact to Spesh from Loöq Records and Kenny Wee from Pure Substance who signed three songs for an EP that will be released on Pure Substance Digital in the end of this year.

This is his first success with his own music and hopefully a lot more music (and DJ gigs) will come in the future. In September 2006 he wants to make the diploma tests.

Pure Substance Releases

PSD 014 - Jay Lumen vs Tobias Hoppe - Hungary vs Germany Substance EP

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