
Peter Worth - Freak In The Discotech - 2006
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pieter
Genre: House
Date of Set: 2006
Filesize: 88.90 MB
Total Downloads: 1
Biography of Peter Worth
Hi there, I’m Peter Worth, a professional DJ in Key West, Florida. Hear me roar!
I was born in Glasgow Scotland in 1981, and came to America in 1999 with nothing but a box of LPs and $600 – half of which I spent taking a cab ride from Miami to Key West. Hey, it seemed like a sensible thing to do at the time.
First off, I landed a job at a fantastic club called WAX, where I ended up working for four years. I also started to organize my own parties, usually with my partner in crime Jeffrey Dunaway.
Calling ourselves Wodu Productions, Jeff and I held some ferocious events at such locations as a 120+ capacity boat (RockTheBoat), oceanfront mansions (Good Times), Irish pubs, art installations (Art Lights Martellos), and even Ernest Hemingway’s house!
As a DJ in a tourist town I quickly learned how to balance the more accessible side of house music with the twisted material that I love. My resulting style is well-paced, with many hands-in-the-air moments. I place huge emphasis on well-programmed mixes, as I feel this is the key to shaping a solid, well-rounded night.
I set the DJ site in August 2005 to make it easy for my computer illiterate brother and friends to download my mixes. It grew quickly and now I love hearing great feedback from all over the world. I love creating a new mix, road-testing it full belt on my soundsystem, designing the artwork, then finally adding it to the website.
Creating this many mixes also allows me to figure out good programming between songs which I carry over to my live performances. Nothing like a good snap mix to destroy a dancefloor. (Flash, bang, and another bassline from disco-hell...)
In Key West, Florida I am fairly well known and bring in a good crowd. In my time here I have DJ'd with Mark Grant, The OM Crew including A Guy Called Gerald, Ivano Bellini, and spun a whole night back to back with DJ Skribble (and gave him a run for his money...) when MTV was down here for the summer a few years back. These days I am more focused on other things, but...
When I feel the urge I play out in small intimate venues in Key West, Florida. (OK, all the venues here are small and intimate!) I play the entire night on my own as anything else is just a waste of time. With an hour all you can really do is shake the dancefloor. With a 5 hour set you can do so much more – starting out very slow and mellow, gradually picking up the pace to the point that pure fury is raging out of the speakers
Lately I’ve turned to the Traktor DJ Studio for all my DJing and recording needs. Nowadays, when I play out, I do so entirely from my laptop, a 15” Apple Powerbook G4, my idea of a true “plug and play” setup. I still purchase essential vinyl and own around 2000 vinyl records. I use EQ's, effects, and have a CD player solely for the purpose of layering sounds and accapella tracks in the mix.
My live performances are a different breed from my mixes - they have a lot more raw energy. The purpose of a Mix CD (In my opinion) is to showcase a set of tracks in a well paced, flowing manner. If you're getting your shit on with a chick the last thing you want to hear in a DJ mix is the bass dropping out while it's having the arse Flanged right off it before the whole lot slams back in again.
Next time your in the Southernmost City stop by and hear me spin!