DJ Tonka

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Germany

Active from

1973

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

65,964

Total plays

431,927

Once together with his schoolmate Ian Pooley branded as 'Wunderkind' of German techno, Tonka has become THE disco house producer of the German music scene. While being commercially successful, Tonka managed to hold onto a unique style always identifying him as fan of oldskool breakbeats and early Italian disco tracks. His classic sets at parties in his hometown Mainz are legendary among club-goers. Lately, he has dropped 'DJ' from his producer alias so one would usually read only 'Tonka' on his

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

   · 2012 · cited 6,794x

2. Worldwide trends in diabetes since 1980: a pooled analysis of 751 population-based studies with 4·4 million participants

   · 2016 · cited 2,851x

3. The distribution of 13 GABAA receptor subunit mRNAs in the rat brain. I. Telencephalon, diencephalon, mesencephalon

   · 1992 · cited 1,312x

4. Different projections of the central amygdaloid nucleus mediate autonomic and behavioral correlates of conditioned fear

   · 1988 · cited 1,280x

5. Colonoscopic miss rates of adenomas determined by back-to-back colonoscopies

   · 1997 · cited 1,222x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

René

Gender

male

Citizenship

Germany

Place of birth

Mainz

Occupation

record producer

Languages spoken

German

Genre

electronica

Official website

www.djtonka.com

Image

Tonka in Oslo 2007.JPG

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