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Guest DJ Set 3-28-08

Posted at 4:02 PM on March 28, 2008 by Mark Wheat

The Winter Music Conference is happening in Miami this wekend. It's the SXSW for the dance music community, the biggest coming together of the worlds best DJ's of the year.
There's an awards show, panels and DJ events in every available cornor of the city
culminating in the Ultra Music Festival

To celebrate I thought we'd feature a classic session from the DJ that has probably done more than any other to promote dance music across the globe through his weekly radio show on the BBC...Pete Tong
He is so famous in the UK that there's a phrase created using his name, based on the idea of cockney ryhming slang; "It's all gone..Pete Tong" meaning, it's all gone wrong. This is tantamount to becoming the embodiment of a Dickens character, your name enshrined in the language in such a way, immortality of a special kind. Unfortunately the phrase was used as the title of a film depicting the life of a DJ. It was too painful for me to watch all the way through, but detailed the amount of partying that is possible to do as a world famous DJ! It struck me looking at the line up for the WMC that a lot of the big name DJs are...getting on a bit! The community has grown old rather gracefully too, not many drug casualties that I know of, correct me if I'm wrong, despite the fact that dance music has often been terminally linked to a drug culture! It is not easy to stay at the top of your career for as long as someone like Pete Tong, and still be respected by your peers and the many aging DJ's deserve some respect for showing that specialising in a hedonistic entertainment business doesn't neccesarily mean burning out fast.
Everything in moderation people!
Have a safe and happy weekend!!

Here's tonight's mix, available as a cd in the 'Essential 'collection;

'Essential Selection Ibiza 1999'
Disc One...tracks;
05 Moloko - "Sing It Back"
06 Full Intention Presents - "Hustle Espanol"
07 Paul Johnson - "Get Get Down"
08 Summer Daze - "Samba Magic"
09 High Steppers - "I Will Follow"
10 De Funk - "Pleasure Love"
11 Supakings - "Back and Forth"


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