Pete Dafeet is celebrating five successful years of making some of the finest underground house music with two releases on his own labels Lost My Dog and Southside Shuffle.  Since 2004 Dafeet has build up a strong following working with labels such as Toolroom, Robsoul and Detour and alongside artists including Jay Tripwire, Fred Everything, Nathan Coles and Demarkus Lewis.  The release of ‘94’ on Lost My Dog on 13^th April and the following ‘Tribute 2 K’ on Southside Shuffle on 27^th April are a fitting milestone in the 25 year olds career.

Pete Dafeet’s production career began back in early 2004 while moving a mattress (you really don’t want to know!).  While being stranded for several weeks waiting for a damaged knee to heal he decided to put the time to good use getting to grips with production and sequencing software.  His early efforts caught the attention of the hugely respected Shaboom and Blakkat camp who hooked him up with some remixes and his first full EP for Bosh Records, who were based in the same office.  Word quickly spread, Yousef became a fan, and the rest as they say is history.

Fast forward to 2009 and Pete has set up two labels – Lost My Dog and Southside Shuffle – which have proved a real outlet for his work and presented the opportunity to work with many of the producers he respects most.  Away from his own labels Pete has released a number of well received original tracks and remixes.  The transition from 2008 to 2009 was a particularly successful time with his ‘Deep Life EP’ on Headtunes being including in Juno Records ‘Best of 2008’ and his remix of Jake Island’s ‘Do It Like This’ for Toolroom receiving rave reviews from all of the UK dance press.

‘94’ is available on Lost My Dog on 13^th April.  It is classic Dafeet; driving deep house, and comes backed by remixes from San Francisco’s Andrew Phelan & Origami alongside new Lost My Dog signing Danny Stott and rising Swedish star Johan ELG.  DJ’s getting behind the release include Mark Farina (“Really digging this”), Tom ‘Groove Armada’ Findlay (“Love this”), Inland Knights (“Original is great”) and the ever eloquent Q-Burns Abstract Message (“Holy shit, the original is fantastic!”).

‘Tribute 2 K’ follows on Southside Shuffle on 27^th April in which Pete points his hat to New York City with 3 original tracks in a deep meets tech house style befitting of Freerange or Urbantorque. Already supporting this release are Laurent Garnier (“SUPER funky, SUPER deeeeep as GOOD as ever full club support”), Jimpster (“Nice EP!! Very useful”), Nick Holder (“Gonna play this EP hard”) and JT Donaldson (“Hot shit!  I’ll be giving this a spin tonight”).