BIO: DJing since 1998, audiences can expect a high paced trip through many different styles of music alongside visuals that will make you dance, think and have an epic time! In 2020, DJ Tanner started #Funklectic, on twitch, alongside DJ Maculate - 2 of the worlds most creative video editors joining forces, for a night of funky, eclectic, hip hop, boogie, nu-disco, bass, D&B, bangers, mashups #DJTannerVideoEdits & #MaculateVideoEdits. A truly unique DJ experience, which quickly gained worldwide recognition by The Global Funk Family. In August 2020, DJ Tanner became an official #GlobalFunkFam Video DJ!
DJ Tanner is also a member of The Make It Funky Toronto Collective, 5+ years, which puts on festival type events, in an intimate club setting in Toronto, Canada. DJ Tanner provides live turntable driven video artistry on big screens, syncing up live music videos with visuals, working alongside the best DJs on the planet, world renown artists: Krafty Kuts, A. Skillz, Scratch Bastid, Stickybuds, Fort Knox Five, Slynk, The Gaff, Killa Kella etc. DJ Tanner provided visuals for DJ Spinna's "StevieWondeful" @ Toronto Beaches Jazz Festival Groovin in the Park in 2018, which DJ Spinna said "was one of his best shows in 17 years of performing Stevie Wonderful sets." DJ Tanner is currently making DJ Spinna's IG weekly posts, "best Music video Promo on IG", for Spinna's Apple Music weekly sets!
Locally, in the Niagara Region Canada, DJ Tanner is throwing #FUNKLECTIC events! Our first #FunklecticLive featured A. Skillz alongside DJ Maculate (San Fran) & Farbsie Funk (Make It Funky Toronto) & our 2nd #FUNKLECTICAV featured 3 of the worlds best Video DJs - DJ Yoda (UK) plus DJ Maculate and Tanner. Looking forward to many more #FUNKLECTICs around the globe!
DJ Tanner's 25 years of DJ experience has led to some incredible DJing opportunities, opening up for People Under The Stairs (2x), Non-Phixion, Quantic, DJ Maseo of De La Soul, DJ Nu-Mark (Jurassic 5), DJ Dopey (3x) and Skratch Bastid (4x). DJ Tanner is a proud Skratch Bastid BBQ DJ alumni, who djed on the Red Bull Tour Bus, at Skratch Bastid's BBQ in 2016.
DJ Tanner's video edits and visuals has opened doors to numerous events & festivals, as the added video element to the Djing allows for a greater visualization for the people in attendance to appreciate and get down! DJ Tanner held down the 1s and 2s all night long @ The Beatnuts concert in Toronto, with high praise from SypherSights.com, who mentioned most Djs just do the job DJing, DJ Tanner's ability to mashup and sync music videos, ability to play to the crowd, allows DJ Tanner the opportunity to be “creative” & “shine” as a visual artist.
REVIEWS: "What you do is pure brilliance! Keep doing what you are doing!" - Krafty Kuts
"One of Canada's most prolific Video DJs!" - Farbsie Funk
"As adept at mixing all vinyl & 45s as making #DJTannerVideoEdits" - DJ Skeg, from Breakin Bread UK
"Awesome job syncing up the live video & visuals Tanner! - Skratch Bastid
“DUDE! out of all the talent last night I think you impressed me the most. Absolutely killed the VJ game. Big ups buddy !” - DJ Hi-Def