Biography
Anton Tumas moves quietly but leaves deep footprints. DJ, sound designer, event architect, and founder of Subtract Music, he has spent more than a decade stripping away gimmicks and focusing on what actually matters: music, systems, and the people in front of them.
He’s played everywhere from LA warehouses to Moontribe, Burning Man, Lightning in a Bottle, Further Future, and Woogie Weekend, sharing the booth with Hernán Cattáneo, DJ Tennis, Danny Howells, and many more. His sets live in the overlap between deep house, techno, and hypnotic electronica, guided by a simple filter: forward‑thinking, emotionally honest, and built to last.
As a promoter, Anton prefers results over hype. Subtract On The Pier turned a Long Beach snack shack into an eleven‑season institution, hosting everyone from Doc Martin and Lee Burridge to Patrice Bäumel and Mathew Jonson. As producer of Love Long Beach Festival, he helps draw over 10,000 people to the waterfront each year, using high‑end sound and surgical curation to make large events feel intimate and human.
Subtract, the label, follows the same philosophy: release slowly, and only when the music demands it. That approach has built a catalog that spans emerging voices and veterans like John Digweed, Stimming, and Matthew Dekay, and it has carried Anton’s own productions to imprints such as All Day I Dream, Sudbeat, Balance, Endless, Sol Selectas, and Subtract itself, including collaborations with Hernán Cattáneo, Dave DK, and Jamie Stevens.
Underneath all of this is one ongoing project: subtract everything inessential until only the real remains—whether that’s a record, a sound system, an event, or a moment on the dance floor. The landscape keeps evolving, and so does he, but the direction stays the same: less noise, more truth, and better bass.
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