Archive 1999 – Night Flight – Shake It Up (Remix)


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In the autumn of 1999, my single “Night Flight – Shake It Up” was released and now a license request from an English record label came. They signed it and wanted to release it when I asked if they wanted a mix as “English-inspired real club music”. Yes, of course. At this time, Olav Basoski was very hot and made house music in 130-133 BPM, that went to crossover to a wide range of DJs. And some stuff even ended up being played by techno DJs or trance DJs. I would now try to do the same, create a sound that would apply to many and the Pierre J’s “Funked Up” Remix was born.

The song was released in England and I can proudly say that the last Carl Cox played last millennium was “Night Flight-Shake It Up”! My song in my new remix, which then goes into a countdown. The place is Sydney in Australia and the mix is ​​also broadcast as “Essential Mix” on BBC Radio 1. Even Judge Jules and Pete Tong play it in their shows and for the first time it seems to me that my stuff does not necessarily have to stop being Swedish local achievements, because I can actually do stuff that even the world-wide DJ stars can and want to play. Record-release number 165 ready!

Archive 1999 – Night Flight – Shake It Up


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This single was one out of many when released, but came to mean so much later on. Tommy and I did the usual music with a boiling dance floor in mind, and so we did again. The rest of the story is including Carl Cox, and can be read right here.

Archive 1999 – Pierre J – 5 Years In The Mix



After 5 years of work for all possible record companies and over 150 released productions, songs, remixes and mixes, this disc came to sum it up. Here’s the most you need to know about what I’ve been involved in during these years. Of course not everything but a lot. Many of the songs had topped the Swedish Dance Chart and I am delighted to look back on these years of such an intense and fun jobs.
Radio commercial for the record

Archive 1999 – Afro Beat Kingz – No Apologies

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Tommy and I created this song quite flatlessly, but I thought it was pretty good, so it ended up on the upcoming collection “Pierre J – 5 Years In The Mix”, in addition to joining a promo-CD “Big Bang” in an edited version. This is the first time you can hear the song in its entirety and as a bonus, the edited version is included.

I also played as a DJ on boat-event Big Bang, in good company.

Archive 1999 – Night Flight – Dance With Me


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My record number 145 in order was this single. This follow-up single was done together with Christian who was one of the 3 lucky winners from the Remix-competition that I wrote about here. It followed the same style as the previous single and also contained this little piece of Tommy’s voice from the last recording.

Archive 1998 – Paranoia – Out Of Control


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Richard, who co-wrote “Tellus-The Man With Background” had a new idea of a song. It ended up with “Out Of Controll”. It didn’t feel like it matched any of my previous projects, so the new name became  “Paranoia”.

Archive 1998 – Locobase – Keep On Movin’

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The name is taken from a cream that we used to lubricate our daughter with. You might recognise it if you have small children. Savastano did the main mix in a style that were very popular at the time. Tommy, that later became Subway Baby, did his first official remix all by himself.

Archive 1998 – Tellus -Take Me Up

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The last single from Tellus was Take Me Up, taken from the album. The melody was re-used from my very first vinyl-release “Another Gate” from 1993. Together with the magazine MM, Goldhead Music and my production company Q Park, we launched ”Swedish Masters Of Remix”. Anybody could participate in remixing this song and we had products worth 30.000 SEK for the lucky winners.

We received over 160 remixes in genres from jazz & drum’n’bass to eurotechno & rock. The 3 winners can be heard on the single.

On the forth place, just outside the top 3, we find Axel Hedfors from Lund, with his ”OXL Remigz”. It is a house-version that doesn’t really go all the way. The name OXL should shortly after change into Axwell, and this is the start of an impressive journey in Swedish music history. The nowadays famous producer Henrik B also participated with his techno-version, sent in on a cassette, but the rules demanded CD, to be able to compete in the same sound quality as everybody else, so it automatically was disqualified. But it became the start of a very nice friendship.

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