Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson has been my god of music for long years. First time I got into him was almost 10 years ago if not longer. He introduced me so many different kind of music in the world. Acid Jazz, Soul, Funk, Brazilian, Disco, Electro, and so many other music. And he always mix all those different kind of music so naturally together and keep crowds moving their ass ! I love all of his mix CDs and he's just so great.

So last weekend I was at Summer Stage in Central Park for some artists including Jamie Lidel, Janelle Monáe and Gilles Peterson was doing DJ between the acts. But to me I was there for Gilles Peterson while to many of the crowds he was just djing to keep music going on. So it was not really Gilles Peterson show though me and my friends were totally our ass got shaked. But once we found out that he was going to be playing at Cielo on last Thursday we were like we absolutely go to go, and we did.

It was totally Gilles Peterson night, he was playing so many different kinds of music, D&B, Electro, Soul, Funk, Disco, HipHop, Downtempo, Brazilian, Acid Jazz, oh god I can't even remember how many of those different music he was playing and guiding us through. And of course all the time we were dancing like monkey! I haven't danced that hard for a while. It was totally that experience where you couldn't stop having a big smile on your face and keep moving and jumping around.

There was actually a surprise at the middle, guess what Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest was there middle of the crowd. And we couldn't even notice until Gilles Peterson played one of Q-Tip's song and introduced him. Only NYC! and me being totally a guy from Japan, I had to take a pic with him!



Anyway, the show was totally awesome and pure fun. And I felt lucky just being there to get the vibe of everybody being their for his music and shaking their ass the whole time!