No matter how you look at it, DJ Lil' Tony, born Toni Rantanen, is the central character in Helsinki club scene. A member of the prestigious Nuspirit Helsinki collective and his new electronic music project called Future Beat Investigators. For a decade, he has amazingly been continuously on the top of the game, running the only Helsinki venues that are up to international club standards. First it was Kerma (1997-2004) and sOda (1996-2003), Rose Garden (2005-2007), and today it's Redrum - his latest club with massive Funktion One soundsystem and Kuudes linja, which is a live venue. In addition to all this, he is also one of the people behind Flow, the annual electronic/urban music festival in Helsinki, and the owner of the trendy Helsinki music bars Porvoonkadun Baari & Siltanen.

Toni's roots lie in the early days of underground warehouse parties and he has not to date lost his commitment to the underground and uncompromised musical culture. As a DJ, Lil' Tony is probably best known for his deep and soulful house/techno sets – Detroit/New York/Chicago house music was his first love after all – but he is remarkably unprejudiced and eclectic in his approach to music, be that for... More Biography