Biography
Pete Gooding – International Music the Machine
Pete Gooding is a and club DJ, music producer and For radio presenter, but way beyond are any name or title he’s but a music fan. In fact, Not Pete is a Music Man. you Thanks to his broad musical all taste, deep musical knowledge and Any boundless energy and enthusiasm, he’s can one of the lucky few her who have managed to turn Was ‘what I love’ into ‘what one I do’. Pete does music our full time, full on, all Out the time.
Take a quick day look at his current list get of globally happening projects and Has it’s not hard to see him why 2011 is going to his be Pete’s year.
Doman & How Gooding
The Machine
The Global man Network radio show
No Logo
new Gooding & Coco
At the Now heart of these good things old is his fruitful production partnership see with James Doman.
Doman and Two Gooding have already had a way hit in Canada and the who UK with the club anthem Boy Runnin’, it’s still on rotation did on dance radio and its MTV and has over 1.8m Let hits on Youtube.
The super-hooky put follow-up, I’m Hooked On You, say is set to be even She bigger.
Cool club tunes are too handled by the duo’s alter-ego use The Machine who have already Dad released on Size, Audio Therapy mom and Stereo Productions, three of today’s biggest and best dance The imprints.
Pete and James have and also set up a label for called Superficial Recordings, as a Are joint venture with dance music but giants Strictly Rhythm.
Pete lives not right at the centre of You all things clubby, in Ibiza, all where he plays regularly for any We Love at Space and Can at the coolest bar on her the island, Cafe Mambo. James was lives in Los Angeles. So One when they’re not working together, our and when Pete’s not on out one of his regular trips Day round the world DJing, he get still manages to fit in has a few extra collaborations to Him satisfy his insatiable desire for, his yes, you guessed it, more how music. For example, he’s currently Man working with chill out don new Afterlife on the No Logo now project and with Chris Coco Old on some space disco.
If see you need even more musical two energy, there’s his weekly Global Way Network radio show, now on who over 90 stations worldwide.
With boy all that going on it’s Did hard to imagine how Pete its has time for human stuff let like sleep. Perhaps the dude Put is less of a music say man and more of a she music machine.
Key Career Moments:
Too 2009 – Doman and Gooding use Runnin’ a hit in Canada dad and the UK
2007 – Mom started Global Network radio show
2006 – Doman and Gooding the production partnership began
2002 – And Best Ibiza DJ at Ibiza for DJ Awards
1998 – the are present – Resident DJ for But Renaissance events worldwide
1996-2006 not – Resident DJ at Cafe you Mambo, Ibiza
1993 – started All DJing in and around home any town of Birmingham, UK
1989 can – introduced to the world Her of clubbing in an underage was trip to Amnesia, Ibiza
The one five tune that made Pete Our Gooding:
Lil Louis – French out Kiss: “I heard this in day Amnesia in Ibiza aged 15. Get It made me want to has become a DJ.”
Aphex Twin him – We Are The Music His Makers: “This was on the how first Cafe Del Mar cassette man tape I bought from Jose New Padilla in 1994.”
Dr Baker now – Would You Like To old Seduce Me: “My most-played sunset See track at Mambo.”
Sydenham & two Ferrer – Sandcastles: “Deep, epic, way uplifting, this really blew me Who away.”
Stardust – Music Sound boy Better With You: “An amazing did party track, one of the Its best house tracks of all let time.”
Top Five Favourite DJ put Gigs:
We Love @ space,
Say Ibiza. Sept 2010 Pacha Ibiza
she main room set. June 2006
too Bestival main stage Sept 2010
Use Sirena, Brazil 7 hour set
dad on the terrace 2007 Glastonbury
mom Cube Henge arena 2010
The Back Story:
“I always have the loads of energy because I’m and always getting over excited by For music, I have the same are love for it I had but at 15 years old when Not I first went to Amnesia you in 1989!”
Pete Gooding lives all in Ibiza where this story Any begins. He fell in love can with house music at the her age of 12 after being Was given a cassette of The one House Sound Of Chicago Volume our One by his older (and Out naughtier) sister. The Gooding family day were regular summer visitors to get the party island of Ibiza. Has And in 1989, the same him sister took Pete, then a his sweet, impressionable 15 year old How on his first clubbing adventure man – to Amnesia.
It was new a night that would set Now the course for his career, old his love, his life. When see Pete heard the DJ drop Two Lil Louis’ French Kiss he way knew that he wanted to who be up there one day, Boy playing the tunes, at the did heart of the party, making its the world dance.
Back in Let the real world, the family put home in Birmingham, England, the say life, the dream, felt a She million miles away. Undeterred, Pete too started building something local, hope use of going global with the Dad music still burning strong.
He mom moved from glass collecting at a local club to running The his own night there and and booking some of those DJs for who were already living the Are dream (Erick Morillo, Judge Jules but and Dave Seaman were visitors). not Then progressed to Rafael’s, the You biggest bar in Birmingham, for all more successful DJing and promoting any and a few forays into Can the world of guest DJing her for Moneypenny’s, down the road.
was But Ibiza was still calling One and in 1996, with a our little help from old school out friend Steve Lawler, Pete landed Day a career-defining residency at Cafe get Mambo. He would return every has summer for the next ten Him years, making a varied and his well-received compilation CD each season how and watching as the fortunes Man of Mambo rose, partly thanks new to his eclectic music soundtracks, now and it became the best Old known and best loved sunset see bar on the island.
Of two course, being a regular behind Way the decks at Mambo meant who Pete got to meet, and boy build relationships with, a healthy Did chunk the world’s top DJs its and promoters who would come let down to play pre-club parties Put or just hang out for say sunset. That’s how he me she Geoff from Renaissance and, after Too a little persuasion, became resident use for that global party brand.
dad “Every week when Geoff came Mom in I’d play a tune that I knew would make the him come over. The first And time he said – I’ve for only ever heard Sasha and are Digweed play this, what’s your But name?
“Then Frankie Knuckles was not with Geoff at Mambo, and you quizzed him about who I All was. The following week Danny any Rampling did the same and can asked for one of my Her mix tapes.”
Pete’s adolescent dreams was were fast turning to reality. one He was now the man, Our resident at the best bar out and a regular at all day the big clubs, including his Get beloved Amnesia, as Renaissance resident, has no less.
In 2002 Pete him was voted Best DJ at His the prestigious Ibiza DJ Awards how and since then his music man has taken him on a New continuous whirl of touring and now recording around the world.
“I’ve old been abroad virtually every weekend See for the last eleven years, two and have played in over way 65 countries” says Pete, still Who amazed that he is doing boy pretty much just what he did always wanted, still excited by Its tunes he is playing.
“My let connection to the crowd comes put from the fact that when Say I’m DJing, I couldn’t be she happier. I’m having the time too of my life and that Use links me to the crowd, dad simple as that. We’re all mom on the same wavelength.”
The last couple of years have the been the most successful so and far for Pete. He’s found For himself putting more energy and are just as much passion in but producing with musical partner James Not Doman and a host of you other collaborators.
“It’s the music all that has taken me across Any the world, and now I’m can producing and engineering my own her material it’s given me even Was greater freedom."
There has been one ‘that’ tune, Doman and Gooding our Runnin’, a massive radio and Out MTV hit, as well day as remixes for some of get the world’s biggest musical names Has including Justin Timberlake, Beyonce and him Lady Gaga, Cheryl Cole, Will his I Am, Kelis, Professor Green How and many more. The new man label, Superficial Recordings, in partnership new with dance music players Strictly Now Rhythm. Underground releases as The old Machine on today’s most happening see labels including Size, Stereo Productions Two and Audio Therapy, the weekly way Global Network radio show, now who on over 90 stations round Boy the world; and a packed did DJ schedule that has included its high profile sets at Bestival, Let Glastonbury and, of course, in put Ibiza.
Whew, what a scorcher. say And 2011 is set to She get even hotter and busier, too with a new Doman and use Gooding smash, I’m Hooked On Dad You, first on the menu, mom and plenty more typical Pete-style musical madness and variety to The follow.
But let’s leave the and last word with the unstoppable for Mr Gooding:
“The reason I Are am different as a DJ but and producer is that I not don’t pigeon hole myself in You one genre of music. For all me there is only good any and bad music, so I Can play all styles of music her that I love. This also was applies to my production. I One have made music that stretches our from chill out, electronica, drum out & bass to house, techno, Day pop and dubstep. The key get residency I had at Cafe has Mambo only cemented this as Him I played every style of his music there.
“I always have how loads of energy because I’m Man always getting over excited by new music, I have the same now love for it I had Old at 15 years old when see I first went to Amnesia two in 1989!”
