Brought up on by the greats of soul music, such as Teddy Pendergrass, Loose Ends, The Chi-Lites, McFadden & Whitehead, Barry White, Thelma Houston, The Jones girls and the temptations.

DJ Pete Hostetler was first well known for his dancing skills as that took him around the south of England, and after a long spell of spinning around on his head he decided to entertain clubbers a different way, which started off helping with DJ setting up and playing the odd tune.  

The musical heritage rests firmly on the shoulders of soul funk and disco.  In 1987 and at just 19 years of age he landed his first regular DJ gig at a local nightclub - ‘Oceans’ after standing in for a broken down DJ and soon afterwards was a regular face in some of the Saturday night parties.  News of his success soon got around, and it wasn't long before he was approached by nearby nightclub managers who offered him weekly slots and guest appearances.  

Evolving from the more soulful parts of disco, garage music with its soaring vocals and jazzy instrumentals, captured the ears for him.  From the start there has always been a little bit of soul.... then he branched out into the commercial side of dance music that still contained soulful influences from the likes of:- Louie Vega, Tony Humphries, Eric Morillo, Todd Terry and Danny Tenaglia, Terry Hunter, Leroy Burgess, Dennis Ferrer, MK, Copyright, Bimbo Jones and Cahill
 
Aside from regular dates in the UK, he has graced the decks in Albuferia - Portugal, Kavos - Greece, Buena park, Palm springs - California, M

Richie has been living in a electronic music fantasy land since 1992.  He's originally from SF/Bay Area. At the young age of 16 he was producing massive rave events such as Sanctuary, Realm.... In his 20s, he took up DJing and working clubs around the world. Through the years Richie has made passage through many different scenes and circles through his life time. He has played with many of the legends such as DJ Dan, Donald Glaude,  LTJ Bookem, Fred FM, DJ Seven, Rick Preston, Miguel Migs.. just to name a few. Currently he is a founding member of Shasta Vibes DJ Collective and is settled with his family in N. State California. 

Richie's love of Electronic music began mid 80s with his love of Electronic music when he discovered artists such as DEVO, Kraftworks, Sly and Robbie, Yellow, 808 State, The Prodigy, Temple of Dreams, The Orb, Young American Primitives, NASA and so many pioneers of electronic music. As a pioneer himself, he is constantly delivering new sounds beyond the scope of current mainstream music trends and pushing the boundaries of sound keeping it experimental and fresh. His is new music project endevor is Fresh Jam Records. Find more of his music at freshjamrecords dot com. 


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I’ve decide to be the rod. To put the work in and see who takes notice and attract those that you need in your universe. Setting forth on a journey to become a remix artist. My love of a fresh mixture to something ever young and moving drives me to want to hear an impression of a vocal or rhythm section set a pop song on fire. I hope that you would feel and appreciate my impression. All respect given with all right reserved. Namaste

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