Electronic Musician

Tom VR

Over the past five years, Tom VR has issued a series of releases while developing his own imprint, Valby Rotary. His latest full-length project is his most ambitious yet, transmuting the aesthetic he’s explored hitherto into a 10-track statement that permeates the rhythmic frameworks of house music, trip-hop and DnB with color, texture and vivid emotion.

How and when did you first get into actually making music?

I started making music in high school at about 14. They had this software for writing musical notation, and I’d spend my breaks messing around with it in the library. I had no

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