Gilles Peterson

It’s perhaps no great surprise that listeners choose their own time to hear it because Peterson’s broadcast is at 2am on a Wednesday.

Raised in South London by French/Swiss parents and brought up on urban pirate radio airwaves, soaking in the exotic melting pot of sounds coming out in the 80s, Gilles Peterson has been a radio and club DJ, adventurous soundseeker, tastemaker and highly respected all-round musical legend for four decades.

Gilles Peterson Presents BADBADNOTGOOD, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson and George Clinton, Live in The Theatre at the Ace Hotel, Los Angeles

His energy and enthusiasm for the music is infectious and makes any event he's curating feel like something so much more than the sum of his parts.

Back in 1998, radio and club DJ Gilles Peterson started an All Winners Special in which he replayed the previous few months' best new tracks that he had featured on his radio show. In more recent times, these winners plus a few further additions that may have been missed

Toronto, Canada

The first thing I noticed at this cuban soundclash was the amount of excited young people, students I dare say, up for a night of exotic new sounds. Gilles Peterson, looking and sounding relaxed introduced events like he does on radio one in his own inimitable laid back fashion and the scene was firmly set