Peter Mellander currently hides behind two different alias; "pete m.lander" when delivering his dark, psychotic, underground techno and the newly launched parallell alias "Pietro Gentile" in his still tweaky but more deep/tech house bar-dj appearances - strongly influenced by the club sound of Milano by the time he lived there.
Peter belongs to the first generation techno-djs in Gothenburg, Sweden, but he mostly acted in the shades of the "great ones" of those early/mid 90-ies. And, indeed, it was not as dj at clubs or raves that he contributed the most to building up the Swedish techno-scene but through - radio! Between 1993 and 1997 he ran the local radio show "hq" together with hq’s founder Henrik Strömberg. Despite its littleness, hq played a significant role in building up Gotheburg's and Sweden's techno scene, inspiring its listneners into a life in technocolor.
As a spin-off from the radio show, he founded the techno-label Blackstrobe Recordings (not to be mixed up with its latter “copy cat” Black Strobe records!), releasing a selection of the artists discovered thanks to their demos sent to hq!
Peter Mellander also proved to be a successful club host with his late-nighter "Strobe Hours" (1997) lining up Gothenburg’s contribution to the list of (world-) famous DJs such as Samuel L Session, Anti, Max Reich, Morg, MomentH and more.
However, forced to a second priority in Peter's life, music, club-hosting and dj:ing never has become his main profession and many of his initiatives therefore were short-lifed. Despite that, he has never resigned from the scene, and after having spent some time in Switzerland and three years in Milano he is nowadays, again, based in Gothenburg where he - more rarely - but gladly spins his tunes for the crowd.
...He's shared line ups with Samuel L Session, Adam Beyer and Jeff Mills. He brought Leo Anibaldi to Sweden. He made Laurent Garnier admit he was sick of the acid (sound..). He's kissed Lady miss Kier on the chin and asked his almost-neighbour Robert Leiner for a smoke ? - But, despite all this he never really reached any fame
- May we call him an anonymous legend?
Pete m.lander's sets are often very dynamic, irrestistibly suggestive and somehow psychotic (or "psychotech" as he tends to call the soundscape). You'll eventually also notice that he loves to blend the more recent stuff with timeless "oldies". Can you distinguish what is what?

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Peter Mellander, pete m.lander