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London-based DJ and producer Pete Ellison has been spinning music for 25 years and has a passion for funk and disco, blending sounds of the 70s with house beats, vocal samples and chunky basslines.

He broadcasts a weekly show on NDC Radio called the "Feel Good Friday Show", with a special guest each week from the Nu-Disco world. The show won the award of "Best Radio Show" at the OGV Music Awards in 2022. 

He's had releases on Super Spicy Records, Spincat Music, Discoholics Anonymous, Mango Sounds, Discography Lessons, Spa In Disco, Duchesse and Hot Digits. Two of his tracks have hit the Number 1 spot on Juno Download.  

He runs a London DJ collective called Serendipity who throw underground events and boat parties. He has played at dozens of London clubs,  and has played at Wilderness, Secret Garden Party, boat parties, woodland raves, Ibiza pool parties and even the dungeon of a French chateau. Long DJ sets are a speciality, with his longest ever DJ performance being an epic 12-hour set.

Pete is also part of The Disco Waltons, a group of International DJs and Disco Lovers who came together during lockdown through their love of music. They host a Sunday night show on NDC Radio, playing on rotation with special guests

As well as Funk, Soul and Disco, he plays Melodic Techno, House and Progressive House

Ricardo was brought up around house music from a very early age as his older brother Darren was already an established dj so he use to sneak into his bedroom and practice spinning on his technics 1210’s which then led on to going to the legendary club nights at Tall trees yarm where Darren was a resident playing to over 15,000 people and on the weeks he wasn’t going there he would be in Todmorden at the out in the sticks nights dancing his socks off , from an early age he traveled to Ibiza for holiday’s then he started to collect vinyl and caught the bug he has now been playing his unique style of soulful-Jackin-classic-Afro & new disco beats for a little over 20 years !  He has played many clubs bars and hotels around Yorkshire and the Uk also as far a field as Australia, Ibiza & the Canary Islands .  He has a deep love for all things house , and also ran a successful club night called LOADED which was a themed house night and went on for a little over 5 years and now the night carries on in Perth Australia as the voices of house boat party , the party consisted of guest dj’s along with bass players saxophonist’s , and percussion players .  Currently he has held a residency at one of Leeds hottest bar’s the Alchemist on Greek street where he’s played for over 10 years .  He also has been running his own radio show called OFF THE RECORD on peoplescityradio.co.uk for 17 months and has had some amazing special guest’s such as Greame park , mark picchiotti, Kenny summit, hippie Torrales, rob roar , Darren Bouthier, Seamus haji , Dr Packer, Michael Gray and many more you can still catch all the shows on this soundcloud page .  More recently Ricardo played for La Musica alongside big names such as Groove assassin, Audiowhores, Good2groove ,Russ, Danny Humphreys, Neil Metzner which was the event of 2023, then on to playing FUNK MY DISCO in Sheffield which in his own words was a great vibe with a top atmosphere [shout to Ian art Hudson] !!  Ricardo finished off 2023 playing @ the cove bar in brighouse Yorkshire along side Andy Wilcock . So what’s in-store for 2024 you my ask - Ricardo will be playing a brand new night in pontefract called Back To House with the Hacienda Legend Mr Graeme Park & Curtis Zack who is hosting the event and Dj’ing on the night 2,3,24 @ the Northern soul club , then starting his own night and podcast called RE-Groove alongside long time friend and awesome Dj Wayne Houghton aka good2groove . Thank you all for continued support on soundcloud & mixcloud  I always love to hear your feed back on all of my mixes music has always been life ❤️  Rdf

Life is better with music......

Music gives us goosebumps, makes us feel elated and brings tears to our eyes. Electro beats drive us, a roaring orchestra provides pleasant shivers, a deep singing voice has a calming effect. It's amazing how much sounds influence us and direct our emotional world. 

Enjoy listening PDRMXsound

Wilson Frisk hails from Bradford, Yorkshire in the north of England. Like many other Dj's Wilson started his musical journey collecting music as a young teenager doing compilations for his friends. In 1994 Wilson started a music fanzine called 'Jackyard Backoff' with his late friend Chris Stephenson which covered the music scene in the north of England. Around 1995 Wilson became involved with a very successful club night called 'Spice' which was his first stint at Dj'ing playing Broken Beat, Acid Jazz, Hip Hop, Soul and jazz......Wilson has now firmly established himself in the House/Disco scene holding down residencies in Bradford, Leeds and Huddersfield and been involved with infamous club nights such as Back2Funky, Uno House, Our House, Afro Coalition, Way2Funky, Wallop, GYGO and The House Of Phunk. Currently Wilson is one of the Boombox  Stereo residents who play at the mighty BeatHearder Festival and part of the 4Playdjs Collective who play at the Solfest Festival in Cumbria. Wilson is also one half Of Uptown Funk along side his musical partner in crime Poco (https://soundcloud.com/uptownfunkin) 
 ..  Wilson is known for his smooth mixing style, taking you on a musical journey dipping in and out of all genres of House music but keeping it in his Jackin', Funky, Disco style that he's renowned for!
You can now catch Wilson on PCR (Peoples city radio) peoplescityradio.co.uk/ every other Wednsday night 6 til 8pm UK with his show 'HouseBound' which has been firmly running for 6 years now, playing all things House & Disco with regular guests.....Keep The Faith!

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Ricardo De Funk