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Gilles Peterson

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Gilles Jérôme Moehrle MBE (French pronunciation: [ʒil ʒeʁom muʁl]; born 28 September 1964), better known as Gilles Peterson (/dʒaɪlz/), is a French broadcaster, DJ, and record label owner. He founded the influential labels Acid Jazz and Talkin' Loud, and started his current label Brownswood Recordings in 2006. He was awarded an honorary MBE in 2004, the AIM Award for Indie Champion and the Mixmag Award for Outstanding Contribution To Dance Music in 2013, the PRS for Music Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio in 2014, and The A&R Award from the Music Producers Guild in 2019.

Throughout his career, Peterson has played a pivotal role in promoting genres such as jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music. He started his career on pirate radio stations Radio Invicta and K-Jazz, later joining legal stations in London, first the newly founded Jazz FM, and then onto the dance music station Kiss FM. In 1998, he was hired by BBC Radio 1, and in 2012 he began hosting a three-hour Saturday afternoon programme on BBC Radio 6 Music. He hosts a syndicated radio programme that is broadcast in seven European countries.

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Links To Peel[]

The R6 2014 tribute show John Peel Remembered included the thoughts of Gilles Peterson on his former R1 colleague:

"Thank you to John Peel. Thank you so much for being able to teach me and to encourage me and to inspire DJs such as myself, particularly here on Radio 6 Music. I used to be on after John Peel on Radio One. It was amazing. He would start at 10, I was on at midnight, and he just gave me that huge audience that he’d built up over the years, so it was really easy for me to be able to just take that on a little bit and to feel that there was already a good audience there ready and open for the music I was about to play.

I remember one week – he used to give me records now and again – and I remember he knew I was a big Sun Ra fan and he gave me an original pressing of ‘Dreaming’, one of those songs where he does the doo-wop singing and stuff. He gave me his original version of that. I can’t believe I’ve still got it, and I should have asked him to sign it. I never asked him for that, but I play it all the time and, you know, the fact that he was so into breaking new groups and all of what he did – making sense of old music and new music and putting it into context. So hopefully I’ve been able to take on that philosophy a little bit. So once again, thank you, John. You’re very much missed."

Shows replacing Peel whilst he was away[]

1999
  • 20 October 1999
2000
2002
  • 13 March 2002, 20 March 2002, 27 March 2002, 03 April 2002
2003

Mentions / Other[]

  • 04 November 1998: Last ten minutes of file contain beginning of Gilles Peterson show.
  • 09 June 1999: Final track, a free jazz excursion with Sun Ra, is played for Gilles Peterson, whose programme follows the news.
  • 05 April 2000: Tape continues with news and first few minutes of Gilles Peterson.
  • 31 May 2000: (JP: "Just trying to persuade Gilles Peterson of the virtues of Robbie Fowler's goal tonight.")[1]
  • 18 July 2000: (JP: "I’ve just been on holiday and if you’ve been listening to the programmes while I’ve been away, obviously the first week’s programmes were pre-recorded and then last week it was Gilles Peterson – and thanks to him for taking care of business while I was away.)
  • 06 September 2000: John reminds listeners that there will be no programme featuring him the following night (it was presented by Gilles Peterson). This seems to frustrate him, as he is eager to play tracks from the new Godspeed You Black Emperor LP.
  • 03 July 2002: (JP: "At this juncture of course, normally we would have the news. But for some reason which we can't work out at all, for some technical reason we can't actually raise the news room. So I think we'll just go straight to Gilles Peterson. Gilles, if you're ready to go...")
  • 06 November 2002: News at midnight / Start of Gilles Peterson Worldwide programme.
  • 26 December 2002: The final part of file runs into the news and Gilles Peterson's One World.
  • 19 March 2003: (JP: "Coming up after the news, it's Gilles Peterson live in Miami. Well, we got to go to Nottingham, come on! Can't complain, can you?")
  • 11 June 2003: Programme comes from Peel Acres. Tonight's broadcast is "an hour long programme rather than the traditional two hours, because at eleven o'clock we go over to Barcelona to Sonar and Gilles Peterson."

Compilations[]

(Peel plays of various artist (v/a) releases linked to Gilles Peterson. Please add more information if known.)

(3xCD- INcredible Sound Of Gilles Peterson) INcredible

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References[]

  1. ↑ Liverpool's Fowler had scored for England who beat Ukraine 2-0 in their last warm-up game before Euro 2000 .[1]
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