Tony031R

about

Toné is an established name in the romanian urban electronic music scene, involved in multiple activities such as DJ-ing or event and artist management for more than 3 years now. Born in Bucharest in 1988, Antonio Nartea on his real name, had the first contact with electronic music in 2002 starting with artists like The Crystal Method, Orbital, FSOL, The Orb, Asian Dub Foundation, Overseer, DJ Shadow, Monkey Mafia, Leftfield, Ludovic Navarre or DJ Spooky. In 2003 he found himself in the crowd at his first raves and in the same period of time, found himself attached to the sounds of Drum&Bass through labels like Good Looking Records or Metalheadz. Starting 2005 he begins writing electronic music articles and starts working as a PR for multiple event management organisations in Bucharest where he learns the basics promoter skills. In 2006 he makes the switch from Drum&Bass to lower tempo bass music. His interest towards a fresh genre on the market called Dubstep rises and in 2007 he becomes a co-founder at Dubstep.ro and alongside TRG and Alien Pimp becomes one of the pioneers of the genre and scene in Romania. In December 2007 alongside Tomasan he throws the first exclusive Dubstep event in Romania. A couple of weeks later he starts DJ-ing in a local pub alongside VRT and Tomasan under the Tony031R moniker. In 2008-2009 he goes on organising Dubstep events alongside Yazee inviting names like Caspa, Loefah or Whistla. He starts Hey! Events alongside Reash inviting names like Le