New school disco stalwart Pete Herbert is dropping by Dubai to spin for boogie connoisseurs Dust.
Known for fuzzy London club sets, and releases on Disco Deviance, Maxi Discs and Eskimo, expect a mix of left field disco, house, funk and more, when the UK DJ gets behind the decks at Velocity on March 17.
The first and last record you bought?
Fun Boy Three & Bananarama’s Aint What You Do, and Cantoma’s Monk Island.
Your favourite thing about gigging the UAE?
The weather! It’s two degrees here in London at the moment …
The best and worst thing about being an internationally touring DJ?
Getting to travel and explore nice places for sure — then wishing you lived there.
Your speciality in the kitchen?
DIY — Don’t Involve Yourself.
If you’d been born tone-deaf and never got into music, you would be a ...
A much bigger DJ.
Your musical predictions for the rest of 2016?
Odd-step.
If the world was going to end in seven minutes, what tune(s) what you put on?
Manuel Göttsching’s [58 minute minimal electronic track] E2-E4 and hope for the best …
• Pete Herbet spins for Dust on Thursday March 17, from 10pm at Velocity, JW Marriott Marquis, Business Bay, Dubai. Dh100 on the door.
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