When Peters is not spinning one of his marathon sets, he's busy running his Deeper Rekords, NYC label and doing production and remixing. Started in 1995, Deeper has released about 15 records and with that, become one of the premier New York labels for hard house with worldwide acclaim for their releases. Deeper even signed over one of their tracks, the latin house anthem "La Tropicana," to London/FFRR for the Platinum on Black compilation and a subsequent single release last year. Recently completing a production and distribution deal with Strictly Rhythm, Peters is happy to go at it on an independant level again. "I love [Strictly President and owner] Mark Finkelstein and think he's a great record man, but it just wasn't the right situation for me to be in." Hitting the self-distribution scene with the Peters, Razor and Go-produced Franklin Fuentes track "X-Quze Me (Who's The DJ)" and Knight Breed "Your Love Is Taking Me Over," Two songs which are massive in the big apple, things are really looking good for the label right now.
And if everything else he's doing wasn't enough, his remix career has taken off as well. Aided by his Billboard Reporter status he is able to get in on remixing projects and turn them out. Just recently, his remixes for Lutricia McNeil, Vanessa Williams, Aretha Franklin (with Keith Litman) and Track Bums have been caned all over the tri-state area and are even causing a stir overseas with fans of bangin' house sounds. "I like to take into consideration what the original production was and then I close my eyes and feel where I want to go with it. That way, my productions retain the flavor of the song and my style doesn't get stale." A mix he did that has become highly coveted with the 'exclusives' jocks has been his masterful 12-minute re-working of Janet Jackson's "Together Again," which never made it onto the commercial release. "I got the mix on a Thursday and they needed on a Monday." Given that Peters does his marathon DJing on the weekends, that only gave him two full days to tackle the mix according to Virgin's schedule. After rushing to get it in on time, he ended up being a day late. And as they say, a penny short as well. "I love the song anyway, and the experince taught me a lot about remixing, so it wasn't a total loss."
Another avenue Jonathan likes to explore is the the DIY remix. Always looking for a familiar song to peak his crowd with, it's his renditions of TwoTons of Fun's "It's Raining Men" Fifth Dimension's "Sunshine" as well as the Pink Floyd-meets-Underworld "Brown Acid" (with Hani) track that not only winds up the floor at the Sound Factory, but for the DJs who've been lucky enough to get copies of them as well (Two Tons of Fun and Fifth Dimension are available through DMC).
