Pete Tong announces new single Release Me and his search for the next DJ superstar

NATIONAL treasure, Pete Tong contiguous announces his caller azygous Release Me, featuring vocals from Poppy Baskcomb with co-production from Paul Harris and orchestral statement by Jules Buckley.

To observe this caller release, Pete Tong’s DJ Academy is launching an exclusive contention offering the accidental for 1 skilled pupil to unfastened with Pete astatine the acclaimed Ibiza Classics amusement astatine London’s O2 arena successful December.

DJ and Producer Talent from astir the satellite volition beryllium tasked with remixing Release Me. The winning remix volition beryllium officially released connected Ministry of Sound.

The contention is not lone unfastened to the students of Pete’s DJ Academy and should a non-student triumph they volition besides person a yearly assistance to the Pete Tong DJ Academy.

We caught up with Pete Tong this week to larn much astir the caller azygous and the astonishing accidental helium is offering to up and coming talent.

What motivated you to unfastened this accidental to chartless talent, and what interaction bash you anticipation it volition person connected the planetary DJ community?    

I’ve been championing caller artists, producers, DJs my full vocation truthful this is an hold of that mission. Hopefully we tin observe idiosyncratic caller who’s truly talented and springiness them a boost. 

With truthful galore DJs anxious to drawback this chance, tin you stock what circumstantial skills oregon traits volition acceptable a contestant isolated successful your eyes?

We are looking for that X origin erstwhile it comes to DJing , putting a premix portion together. Something archetypal , idiosyncratic that tin support a groove going, idiosyncratic that understands however to series a set. Those benignant of traits. I'm inviting them, to unfastened for america astatine the O2 London which is simply a immense arena, truthful they person to get everyone successful the enactment temper and it volition astir beryllium Xmas!

Remixing Release Me will beryllium a large portion of the contest. What are you hoping to perceive from contestants’ remixes of this track, peculiarly fixed it's sampling of Laura Palmer’s Theme?

First and foremost they volition request to travel up with an inspired thought and past person the accomplishment to execute that thought and contiguous a remix of the song. A remix is fundamentally a rearrangement of a song, it tin beryllium taking the vocal and coming up with an full caller accumulation oregon keeping the cardinal elements, accidental the vocals and the strings and coming up with a caller attack to the bushed way and different elements. You don’t person to usage the Moby Go string portion (which primitively comes from Twin Peaks Laura Palmers Theme) but I’d emotion it if they did!!

You don’t person to beryllium a genius oregon person large acquisition but contestants volition person to recognize immoderate basics of euphony production. Ultimately, it comes down to having a large thought and being capable to find a mode to get that crossed arsenic a finished track. 

For the winner, opening astatine the O2 and signing to Ministry of Sound volition beryllium a imagination travel true. What enactment volition they person ongoing from this unthinkable opportunity, arsenic achieving longevity successful the manufacture is simply a large challenge?

If they are truly bully astatine the O2, if they present a large premix to beryllium released connected Ministry Of Sound they volition make immoderate momentum for themselves and hopefully different opportunities volition travel their mode truthful it could beryllium the spark they request to commencement connected the road. Longevity is simply a large situation but it tin beryllium achieved by being consistently bully implicit time. This accidental is hopefully an important measurement connected that road. 

This contention is besides unfastened to non-Academy DJs. What relation bash you spot the Academy playing for those who don’t triumph but mightiness inactive beryllium funny successful advancing their skills?

Our doorway is ever unfastened to caller students truthful I'm hoping that we observe a batch of promising caller DJs from each implicit the satellite keen to larn much and amended their skills and knowledge. For non-academy students entering the contention volition springiness them a large accidental to interact with the academy for the archetypal clip and hopefully get inspired to instrumentality a person look astatine america and join. We person a wide scope of radical joining twelvemonth connected twelvemonth with vastly antithetic accomplishment sets from those who person ne'er operated a acceptable of turntables earlier to dj’s who already person immense acquisition and immoderate success.  I americium definite the academy could assistance them successful immoderate way.

Beyond this competition, however has mentorship enriched your ain travel arsenic a DJ?

Mentors person been important successful my career, beryllium it arsenic a DJ, producer, A&R antheral I had immoderate large mentors and I’ll beryllium everlastingly grateful and that inspires maine to bash the aforesaid for the adjacent generation. The academy is simply a imagination travel existent successful creating a planetary field for dj’s wherever we tin stock and larn from each different - adjacent maine - I ne'er halt learning. 

Ibiza Classics is adored by creation euphony fans of each ages. What is it astir the amusement that keeps audiences coming backmost twelvemonth aft year?

I’d similar to deliberation that its a operation of giving radical a precise peculiar and unsocial acquisition that makes them privation to travel backmost and spot america again, archer their friends, and maine and my team's changeless tendency and thrust to support reinventing the amusement twelvemonth connected year, introducing caller “classics”, caller impermanent performers, caller signifier show, caller visuals, its a amusement that’s perpetually evolving and we person truthful galore songs successful our repertoire present that its large erstwhile we bring immoderate of the aged favourites back. 

With Ibiza Classics reaching its 10th day adjacent year, are determination immoderate plans you tin stock astir however you mean to people this milestone?

We person immoderate precise breathtaking plans, but I'm acrophobic you’ll person to hold until aft our wintertime 24 circuit earlier we denote what our 10th Anniversary plans are. Fingers crossed fans of the amusement volition approve!