LA-based composer, studio owner, producer and multi-instrumentalist Pete Mills began his life’s purpose pursuing music at the age of six. Pete has played in many bands, signed multiple record deals and toured worldwide, as well as spent many hours in the recording studio, honing his craft.

Pete has worked extensively in the genres of rock, punk, pop, country, hip-hop, darkwave and k-pop. Driven by his adaptive skillset, Pete crystallizes the vision of the artists and labels he works with. In addition to working at the Village Recorder, Warehouse Studio, Armoury Studio, and Kingsize Soundlabs to name a few, Pete has created his own recording room entitled The Audio Studio.

The Audio Studio client list: Sheryl Crow, Billy Sheehan, The Dickies, Bobby Brown, Darren King, Teddy Riley, Walter Lure, The Doors, William Shatner, Melissa Manchester, Carmine Appice, Mike Pinera, Robben Ford, Shuggie Otis, Soft Cell, Moving Units, Trisha Paytas, Jackie Cruz, Mumiy Troll, Arthur Brown, Sean “Diddy” Combs, Jasmine Kara, Bonnie Pointer, Tiffany and many more.

Pete has collaborated, produced, engineered and mixed alongside Dave “Rave” Ogilvie (Nine Inch Nails), Teddy Riley (Blackstreet), Douglas “Voli” Martung (J. Cole), GGGarth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine), Michael Patterson (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club), Adam Hamilton (L.A. Guns) and Robert Margouleff (DEVO). Production for record labels and movie companies include: Warner, Sony ATV, Cleopatra, BMG, Universal, Bad Boy, Geffen, Bulletproof, Mint, Guild of Canada, Movie Central and Canadian Film Council.

Notable accomplishments include: recording Sheryl Crow for William Shatner’s album “Seeking Major Tom,” playing bass on Russian rock band Mumiy Troll’s album “Piratskie Kopii,” remixing Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love,” remixing Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “Come To Me,” assisting engineering on the Chinese film “800”, recording 13 k-pop tribute albums in one year, co-producing the hit “More Bounce In California” which inspired the SNL sketch featuring this song entitled “Slow Motion Hallway” starring Josh Brolin and recording MuteMath’s drummer Darren King.

In addition to these collaborations with other artists and music professionals, Pete also composes and performs with his darkwave band, The Sweet Kill, which teems with unbridled gothic angst.

DJ DeLeau's interest in music started (as most DJ's) in his early teens.

From the age of 10 he started remixing songs with a tape deck.
His curiosity with transforming sounds came from recording a conversation between his father and a friend. Soon he tried this with real songs.
At the time he was interested in soul and funk music.
Listening every Thursday evening to the soul show (DJ. Ferry Maat) he soon acquired a taste for artist like EWF, Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald, Herbie Hancock etc.
Mixing these songs gave him a lot of pleasure but at the time it was all for fun.

At the age of 12 he got a drum kit from his parents and soon he was playing drums in a rock band.
After some years he ended up in a band playing funk and disco music and at the height of his drum career he combined all these styles including fusion jazz.

In the late 90's he was asked to become the lead singer in a disco cover band (they already had a drummer) and from this point onwards he tried to perfect his vocals.
Although all his previous musical efforts were at a amateur level he always tried to translate his musical experience into the music he would play as a DJ in a later stage.

After having worked in a bar as DJ on the Saturday evenings for more than 6 years he got an opportunity to take over the Saturday night at club "In Casa" in Leiden in 1998.
The resident DJ Devious, (Dennis Verheugd) well known for his appearance on Radio 538, Radio 10 Gold (now Radio 10), was no longer able to combine his club night at In Casa with his radio work and so DeLeau was asked to take his place.

This took things to a complete different level. DeLeau Successfully played at In Casa on the Saturday night for over 4 years.

In June of 1999, together with 3 other friends he created a concept called "Liquid Exclusive Danceparties"
This was a special dance event held every Friday evening from June 1999 until December 2000.
This event hosted the most famous DJ's in the world at that time: DJ's like Tiesto - Armin van Buuren - Ferry Corsten - Yves DeRuyter - Mark van Dale -  Marcello - Jean - Jose - Klubbheads - Kai Tracid - Tom Harding and many more were booked to play at this venue.
DJ DeLeau played with all of these guys and still today has good contact with many of these world famous DJ's.

The result of these parties was that DJ DeLeau got the opportunity to play throughout the whole of Europe.
DeLeau played in Ibiza at the KU (Now known as Privilege) way back in 1998. BCM in Mallorca, Berghain in Berlin and of course throughout the Netherlands.

Because DJ-ing was never his primary source of income the live playing slowly faded and he started focussing on producing his own music.

Please feel free to check my Spotify account for all my latest productions.
Also, please check back regularly here on Soundcloud for snippets of new tracks and I often put random mixes on here.

Hope you will enjoy my music!

Take care...

The Tea Party, the multi-Platinum selling, multi-Juno Award nominated trio consisting of singer/guitarist/multi-instrumentalist Jeff Martin, bassist and multi-instrumentalist Stuart Chatwood and drummer/percussionist Jeff Burrows has returned with Sunshower, a collection of five new songs that once again showcase their mastery of light and shade, and why they continue to occupy a unique place within the ever-changing musical landscape. 

Released on Nov. 26, 2021 through Coalition Music, Sunshower serves as a companion piece to the 2019 EP Black River, presenting a message of hope in the face of the most challenging year we as a society have endured so far in the 21st century. Together, the EPs will comprise the eventual full-length album Blood Moon Rising, officially marking the latest chapter in The Tea Party’s on-going saga. 

Since releasing its major-label debut album Splendor Solis in 1993, The Tea Party has come to be regarded as one of the world’s most innovative rock bands, with a sound that incorporates everything from traditional instrumentation from around the world, to cutting-edge digital technology. 

Now, after more than 30 years as a band, The Tea Party is ready to open a new chapter in its saga, a story that remains rooted in the goal to create new, ambitious, and thought provoking music.

Los Angeles post-punk band THE SWEET KILL, helmed by Pete Mills, stands as a gothic-rock tour-de-force, a dark presence in a world of cold wave synths and brooding guitars. Spawned to be a beacon for those lost in the shadows of life, Mills guides listeners with his smooth baritone voice through a sonic terrain stretching over wind-swept moors and past crumbling Gothic ruins. THE SWEET KILL delves deep into the darker chambers of the soul, where despair and longing collide. His voice, like a haunting refrain, pulls at the heartstrings, evoking the desolate beauty of a long-lost romantic era echoing the laments of London After Midnight, Sisters of Mercy and Joy Division.

Shadow Zone Sound, Mills’ own recording sanctuary, is a vessel for exploring the darker edges of the human condition—where every note, every lyric, searches for meaning in the spaces between life and the infinite unknown. Both Darkness (2023) and Nowhere (2024), released on Germany’s Young & Cold Records, bear this unmistakable mark. Mills muses, “Nowhere questions the final analysis of the soul’s journey between life and death, are we eternally drifting in the ether or, are we never lost and always found?”

Dame and Damage released on Shadow Zone Records, ushers in the romantic era of 2025 destined to bittersweetly chill those that choose love. Hinting at a new album waiting in the wings for 2025, Mills promising more reflections on love, loss, and the fleeting nature of existence.

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