Tom White

A DJ for over 10 years now, Tom started off playing house music. As the scene developed he moved to a harder sound that became known as Hard House and has played at various events around the country including Sundissential.

During the following years he moved away from Hard House into Techno and then as newer sounds appeared and evolved he became more influenced by them. Now he listens and plays a range of music ranging from tuff electro house & breaks to Tech-Trance.

As well as Djing Tom has also produced under a number of aliases with numerous past releases on various hard house labels including his own. His productions have also appeared on various compilations. There are also plans to release new material which will be showcased at his residency Serotonin this year.

Serotonin - History

Five months after the new millenium had begun, Serotonin launched with its first ever event at Longs Bar, Swindon on Bank Holiday Monday, 29th May 2000. Appearing on that first all-dayer bill were today's Serotonin residents, Paul Jeffries and Tom White, along with headline DJ, Martin Pickard (ex-Cream). The event was a huge success, with the music policy of quality trance and harder house music proving to the organisers that this should not be a one-off event.

Looking for a suitable venue, Serotonin decided to make their home at Bristol's Maze Club. Some six months after the debut event, Serotonin's first event in Bristol took place on 11 November 2000. The line up featured legendary hard house DJ Steve Thomas, along with Paul Jeffries, Tom White and Dave Wheeler.

Two further events took place at Maze, in December 2000 (with Nick Sentience) and January 2001 (with Andy Farley). Although extremely popular, The Maze club itself decided to close its doors once and for all... and Serotonin was homeless.

Looking closer to home, Serotonin established what was to be a year long relationship with Po Na Na in Swindon. By this time primarily hard house focussed, the Po Na Na nights featured many of the biggest names in hard dance, such Andy Farley, Lisa Lashes, Binary Finary and Ed Real. Several events were sold out, with ticket requests for the Christmas 2001 event totalling the equivalent of packing the club twice over!

The small/medium size nature of Po Na Na, and the restriction to Thuraday night events, meant that Serotonin had to move venues in order to put on larger scale, Friday night events. The logical venue was Swindon's largest and most established dance music club, the Brunel Rooms.

Almost two years to the day after the debut event, Serotonin took over both rooms at Brunel, with Andy Farley, BK, Ed Real, Chris Liberator, Julian Liberator and Dynamic Intervention appearing on the first bill.

Several more events followed, with the introduction of Old Skool as an alternative arena in The Amphitheatre, including such famous faces as Slipmat, DJ Sy, The Organ Donors, Nick Rafferty and DJ Seduction. During this time, hard house and trance became less popular with clubbers and 'superclub' events started to fall out of favour. Serotonin decided to re-think their music policy and the way forward for the future.

After almost four years, Serotonin decided it was time to return. With a refreshed music policy of Electro, Techno and Tech-Trance, the events switched to Studio Nightclub in Swindon - once again aiming to provide an alternative to the bland House and R'n'B music that dominates the local pub and club scene.

Coinciding with a renewed interest in harder dance music, the Studio events proved a popular attraction with the likes of Adam Sheridan and Sander Van Doorn clearly marking out the revived Serotonin as a forward thinking and contemporary nightclub event. Also keen to make the nights as widely accessible as possible, original rave/house legends such as John Kelly, Mike Cosford and Mark Luvdup also made massively popular appearances throughout almost a year at Studio.

With Studio nightclub due to close for re-designing and re-launching, Serotonin briefly returned to its spiritual home... the Brunel Rooms. The first return event was on Saturday, 24th February 2007 and featured Tylor Leigh, recently voted Mixmag's 'Future Hero of 2006'.

The remainder of 2007 saw Serotonin and Koolwaters storm the Brunel Rooms and, after the closure of the Brunel Rooms, a return to study ('ironic' is not the word!)

April 2008 sees Serotonin join forces with Oxford's premier hard dance event, Republica, to once again bring Lisa Lashes to Swindon - this time at the ultra plush Apartment venue in Havelock Square. The world's number one DJ in Swindon's number one nightclub... it's going to be crazy.

We look forward to seeing you at one of the nights, as Serotonin continues to stake its claim as THE nightclub event of 2008 in the Swindon area.