Ryan Gawn: On to your new movie, "It's all gone Pete Tong"
, can you tell us a bit about
that?
Pete Tong: It opened in New York today. I've always been involved
with movies, I've been involved with Human Traffic, and the producer
of that always wanted to do another film. They came up with this
concept one day of doing it about a DJ and they came up with the
title. It took a couple of years to get a director and a story
together and then shoot it in 2003.
Ryan Gawn: Did you have any input into that?
Pete Tong: Yeah, I had input into the scripts, the music, my name
obviously, so I get an associate producer credit, I did a few tracks
for it (Pete Tong & Chris Cox - More Intensity, Lingua Franca -
Serendipity) and I'm in it at the start. I'm also involved quite
heavily in promoting it and I'm quite proud of it. It's won lots of
awards already, it's pretty good and I really enjoy it. I think it's
very unusual, really funny, fu%&ing funny, and yet it's also quite
touching as well with a bit of dark side to it. Paul Kaye's
performance in it is unbelievable, total method-acting for the part,
which really comes out on screen.
Ryan Gawn: Any other artists that you're really enjoying?
Pete Tong: Cassius's Phillipe Zdar has just made a brilliant solo
album, and I think that everything that Fanciulli's doing on his label
Skylark is really good. There are so many people. There's a lot of
good music out there and it's a really exciting time. Also, the
Silicon Soul album, "Staring into Space" is great.
Ryan Gawn: Any comments on the tracks you're doing with Chris Cox?
Pete Tong: He's a lovely guy. He lives far away from me, and it's
tough to get together. We did a little session in Miami, then New York
and he's coming to London to work with me next month. We just did
vocals before I came down and we are working on another track for the
summer. To be honest, we didn't know each other before, and got put
together by a manager and we really hit it off. He's a very talented
guy.
Ryan Gawn: Any thoughts on your coming residency at Pachá Ibiza,
Friday nights?
Pete Tong: We're on our 3rd year, and it seems to get better and
better. We've been working busily all through the Winter getting the
campaign together and booking the DJs. Last year we took it to another
level and I think we're going to do it again this year.
Ryan Gawn: Can you tell me about how you like to orchestrate the
night, how involved you get?
Pete Tong: It's a better way of affecting what's going on - - it's a
good way of being involved at every level, Pachá has given me the
opportunity, and I can't really complain. I'm booking all the DJs and
it's a better way of expressing yourself really. It's like a family
over there and it takes time, they're quite old school, a very Spanish
way of life and you have to really earn the right to be there… It's
actually my 4th year there with them, the first year I was with Oakie
on Tuesdays, but this is my 3rd year on Fridays coming up.
Ryan Gawn: Your Essential Selection broadcasts around the world
online and
here in Argentina on Metrodance and in the
US on XM radio. Any progress on your vision for a global radio show?
Pete Tong: The way technology's changing, the question is whether
it'll come via myself from a website or whether it's going to come via
syndication and through radio stations. Radio 1 is the most amazing
platform to be on at the moment. No one comes close anywhere around
the world where I've been in having the impact globally that you can
have by being on Radio 1.
Ryan Gawn: Last one. A fight between Carl Cox and Brandon Block - who wins?
Pete Tong: Cox, easily. He's in training!
