★★★★★
I once saw Pete Tong play at legendary hard house night Sundissential back in the day. He played a set opening with deep intelligent grooves that built up over a couple of hours to climax with a number of the hard trance anthems that the regulars where used to hearing on rotation every five minutes. Because of that fact he lost 90% of the crowd within the first 15 minutes...
- www.music-news.com
2010-11-02
★★★★★
Pete Tong is a british radio DJ, record-label impresario and free-floating muckety-muck of the U.K. music business. He has helped make the careers of drum-and-bass blowhard Goldie and All Saints, the ultimate Spice Girls tribute band, but we shouldn't hold these things against him. This thumping, visceral set of house and techno begins and ends with uplifting ethno-schmaltz tracks that blend house beats and wailing faux-Gaelic gal vocals - like Enya for clubbers...
- www.rollingstone.com
2009-06-08
★★★★★
While Pete Tong's unshakeable position in the U.K. and Euro-dance firmament holds fast, his association with Trust The DJ was a clear move to broaden his global listenership via the label's well-trafficked website. Surveying a blend of little-known and newborn labels, Tong's first Trust the DJ mix is a composite of the funkier, techno side of house...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
Tong's mix-album update circa April 1999 is a double-disc extravaganza, including one disc of the funkier side of house (Armand Van Helden, Hollis Monroe, Cevin Fisher, Pete Heller) and another with harder material (Humate, Quake, Greece 2000). The mixing isn't world-class, but Tong proves that his selection skills are still some of the best.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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