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PETE DAFEET
Then 15, Pete
Dafeet started DJing in the late 90s after messing around with Daft
Punk and Jurassic 5 records on his cousin's decks. A rhythm freak
since early age, he became fixated with house music and saved the
money from his part time job to buy a wonky set of belt drive decks
and a crackly mixer. Slowly but surely he started to learn the trade,
and his tastes became focused on deep, underground house.Four years
on, and feeling constrained by his record collection, Pete set to
work on learning the basics of a computer sequencer. The first three
tracker received plays from many a house jock; Yousef, Lottie and
Jason Hodges were all fans of his debut EP, released on Shaboom
offshoot Foot Fetish in April 2004.
After more
production work for Shaboom, and sister label Bosh, starting his own
label seemed the natural progression. So, in 2004, Pete teamed up
with local househeads Ian "Strakes" Straker and Nagajan
Modhwadia to set up Lost My Dog. In the fifteen releases since, Lost
My Dog has established itself as one of the UK's leading deep house
labels - Jay Tripwire, Phil Weeks and Greenskeepers have all
featured, and the label was recently listed in iDJ as one of the
"100 Reason's Why Dance Music Still Rules".
Pete's reputation
as an artist and DJ is on the rise thanks to gigs with Diz, Rob
Mello, and James Curd, and releases on Uniform, Bosh, Lost My Dog,
and Robsoul. Remixing the likes of Blakkat, Tony Thomas and No
Assembly Firm along the way, he himself has been remixed by several
of his biggest influences - Demarkus Lewis, Inland Knights, and the
afforementioned Jay Tripwire.
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