Thomas Jack, real name Tom Jack Johnston, is an Australian DJ, record producer and musician born 1993. He is noted for the "tropical house" subgenre, and first coined the term in 2013. Johnston grew up on a dairy farm in a small rural town in New South Wales before moving to Sydney to enroll in a music production school. Using the PlayStation game eJay he became involved in the production of dance music and eventually moved to Ableton after his father gifted him the software. He previously used a number of stage names while growing up such as Dirty-D, Bassics, Tommy and Tom Foolery but they were never used professionally. During 2014 Johnston began a podcast mix series called Tropical House, which featured guest mixes by Felix Jaehn, Bakermat, Robin Schulz, and others. He became well known across EDM websites for his original tracks such as "Symphony" and "The Final Speech" as well as his remixes of popular artists such as Of Monsters & Men and OneRepublic and house producers like Adrian Lux. O the topic about tropical house, Johnston began using the term "tropical house" somewhat jokingly, but it stuck, and international producers such as Kygo and Klingande soon became associated with the subgenre. He said in an interview "This genre has impacted on commercial radio. This time next year, tropical house will not be the same. I wanna still hold my name as an artist and not become way, way, way commercial. I don't wanna be limited to the name of a genre". Johnston introduced Kygo to his former manager Myles Shear which has helped to launch the careers of Kygo and Klingande.