About Pete

DJ, Remixer, Editor, Producer. Whether its mixing disco edits, house or throwing in the odd curveball, he knows how to rock a party.

York

If ever there was someone who the phrase “How does he find time to make that?” was about, serial editor and remixer Pete Le Freq is it. His remixes or “refreqs” are played the world over, including on BBC 6Music and Radio 2, and he’s DJ’d with the likes of Michael Gray, Dr Packer, Mighty Mouse and Rob Da Bank. He’s rocked Beatherder Festival and Secret Garden Party festivals. for the last few years, and now brings his reworked and re-edited soul funk and disco goodness to a venue near you.

Pete's Reviews

We needn't detain you too long with this one - the story's nice and simple, as UK veteran Pete Le Freq brings us his takes on a brace of vintage dancefloor gems, namely Frisky's 'Burn Me Up (With Your Love)' from 1979 and Ray Parker Jr & Raydio's 'It's Time To Party Now' from 1980. Which means the EP also serves as a kind of inadvertent micro-history of Black American dance music, capturing as it does the subtle shift from the handclaps, funk bass and harmonised vox of 70s disco to the more spangly, electronically-inclined sound of 80s boogie.

UK veteran Pete Le Freq gets out the razorblades and Selotape and serves up a brace of re-edits for Hot Gorilla. First under the scalpel is Banbarra's 'Shack Up' from 1975 (as covered by post-punk faves A Certain Ratio later on) - the treatment here is so reverential it's hard to say exactly what the re-edit does differently, but the original was always a stone-cold cert so this should be too! 'Rock Me', meanwhile, revisits 'Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again & Again & Again', a 1974 single by Lyn Collins of 'Think (About It)' fame. Funk-tastic!

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Genres:

Disco, House, Funk, Soul

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Bar / Club / Venue event, Private event, Corporate event, New Year's Eve

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