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Peter Michael Tong MBE (born 30 July 1960) is an English DJ who works for BBC Radio 1. [1] He is the host of programmes such as Essential Mix and Essential Selection on the radio service, which can be heard through Internet radio streams, for his record label FFRR Records [2] and for his own performances at nightclubs and music festivals.
The Essential Mix is a weekly radio show on BBC Radio 1 currently broadcast between 0:00 and 2:00 a.m. UK time on Saturday morning. Originally broadcast on 30 October 1993, the Essential Mix features contemporary DJs and music producers of electronic dance music.
"The Essential Mix programme was originally produced by Radio 1 producer Eddie Gordon, who held the post from 1993 to 2001.After receiving weekly mix shows from DJs Tony Humphries [2] [3] [4] and Frankie Knuckles on two-hour cassettes from New York's Hot 97 and KISS [5] [6] 100 respectively [7] in the early Nineties Eddie felt that a Radio 1 weekly show with DJs of different styles of music ...
London’s awards season is in full swing – but one event should be more of a rave than any other this year. That’s because the Music Industry Trusts Award (MITS) for outstanding contribution ...
BBC Radio 1 Anthems is a British online-only radio stream, owned and operated by the BBC and run as a spin-off from BBC Radio 1.The station launched on 8 November 2024 and plays a wide range of music and acts supported by the main Radio 1 network in the 2000s and 2010s. [2]
It's All Gone Pete Tong is a 2004 British-Canadian [2] mockumentary-drama film [3] about a DJ who goes completely deaf. The title uses a rhyming slang phrase used in Britain from the 1980s (Pete Tong = "wrong"), referring to the BBC Radio 1 DJ Pete Tong who cameos in the film.
FFRR Records (sometimes credited as Full Frequency Range Recordings) is a dance music label founded as a subsidiary of London Records in 1986, with A&R run by the British DJ Pete Tong. [2] Originally a part of London Records' label roster, FFRR is currently a sublabel of Parlophone, a division of Warner Music Group. Its activities were mostly ...
Pete Tong with the Heritage Orchestra conducted by Jules Buckley – Classic House [76] (Polydor, Universal 2016) reaching No.1 in the UK Album Charts; Tim Minchin and the Heritage Orchestra (Laughing Stock Productions, 2015) Unkle and the Heritage Orchestra Presents 'Variation of a Theme' Live at the Union Chapel (Surrender All, 2014)