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Tom Vek

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Biografía

London's eclectic one-man band Tom Vek (born 1981, London, UK) combines electronic music with , with , and influences like and (and also made most of his early recordings in his parents' garage, too). As a teen in the mid-'90s, Vek was inspired by and began making along the lines of Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam; before that, he backed his guitarist father on bass and drums in their practice space/garage. When his family acquired a reel-to-reel tape recorder when he was 14, Vek began recording his music, which evolved from grungy rock to Warp- and Ninja Tune-influenced as the '90s came to a close. Vek had been sending his music to a friend of the family (who happened to be Alex Cooper, the longtime drummer for Katrina & The Waves) who in turn sent Vek's latest, electronica-inspired music to his cousin (who happened to be Tim Lee, the head of quirky e