Pete Tong: Latest events, gigs, news, photos, videos, features & music reviews

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Listen: Maya Jane Coles returns to the Essential Mix

By Jack Tregoning 5th May, 2013

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Pete Tong talks EDM: "There’s never going to be another Swedish House Mafia"

By Katie Cunningham 15th Apr, 2013

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Skream goes "house, techno, disco" on new mix CD

By Katie Cunningham 21st Feb, 2013

Dubstep's leading man is making a change.

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Listen: Tensnake's summer-ready new Essential Mix

By Jack Tregoning 17th Feb, 2013

With the Northern Hemisphere still shivering through the tail-end of winter, Tensnake brought some trademark sunshine to the Essential Mix.

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Listen: Mat Zo delivers huge 70-track Essential Mix

By Jack Tregoning 10th Feb, 2013

Over the weekend, Anjunabeats production prodigy Mat Zo stepped up for Pete Tong's Essential Mix, and he didn’t do things by halves.

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Listen: Paul Oakenfold returns to the Essential Mix

By Jack Tregoning 23rd Jul, 2012

He made what Pete Tong describes as "perhaps the most famous Essential Mix of them all", and now Paul Oakenfold is back with a two-hour session.

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Big earners: The 30 Richest DJs in the World

By Katie Cunningham 12th Jun, 2012

Celebrity Net Worth has revealed a list of the 30 richest DJs in the world, and there's some curious entries on the list.

Eclectic’s the name of the game at All Gone Pete Tong Ibiza

By Jack Tregoning 13th May, 2012

"The world at large seems to have woken up to electronic dance music but we never forget where the story started... Ibiza."

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Nicolas Jaar’s Essential Mix pushed back to May

By Jack Tregoning 23rd Apr, 2012

We recall a similar last-minute reschedule when James Blake was booked for his Essential Mix debut. Something about precocious young stars, perhaps?

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Pete Tong: "Don’t sell out dance music to big business"

By Jack Tregoning 16th Apr, 2012

Enduring DJ and BBC Radio 1 host Pete Tong has weighed in on America's 'EDM' boom in a column for 'Music Week', warning that big money could corrupt the scene.

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From Tiesto to Sting, Ibiza’s ‘Rocktronic’ festival is an odd one

By Jack Tregoning 13th Mar, 2012

Are your Ibiza 2012 plans missing a bit of Sting and Lenny Kravitz?

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Pete Tong: Vegas clubbing no longer "lowest common denominator"

By Jack Tregoning 13th Nov, 2011

"You don’t have to do the lowest common denominator thing any more."

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Listen: The Essential Mix goes to Creamfields

By Jack Tregoning 6th Sep, 2011

On the last weekend of the English summer, streams of dance fanatics headed for the countryside to get stuck into the Creamfields marathon. Pete Tong was there to do his thing too.

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So is Las Vegas officially the ‘new Ibiza’?

By Dave Ruby Howe 3rd Jun, 2011

Just how important is Las Vegas to the greater EDM community? Apparently very important if the results of this year's International Music Summit are to be believed.

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America’s first touring dance festival

By Dave Ruby Howe 10th May, 2011

The upstart Identity festival tour will hit up over 20 US cities in August (the peak of their summer) for what some people are already calling the EDM equivalent of the Vans Warped Tour.

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Videos

Full doco: 'Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed The World'

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Orbital, Moby, Carl Cox and many more dance luminaries weigh in on this doco that counts down "the defining moments of the greatest cultural phenomenon of our generation". It's presented by Idris Elba, who'll need no introduction to 'The Wire' fans.