专访世界顶级DJ：做DJ 从婚礼到电台(图)

世界顶级DJ Pete Tong(右)、沪江英语网主编 Steven视线主持人 Steven An(左)

　　注：P：Pete Tong，世界顶级DJ

　　　　S：安家良，Steven An，沪江英语网主编 Steven视线主持人

　　和Petetong见面是在外滩15号的Attica(活动也是该俱乐部主办)，之前我对中国以外的DJ一无所知，更不知道Pete Tong那么有名。所以，我完全把这次会晤当作了学习的过程，查资料、准备提纲、见面、专访，我不亦乐乎。结果发现：前卫的舞曲、讨人喜欢的英国口音、认真随性的Petetong。。。这样的组合，很好！

　　DJ之路，从婚礼开始

　　S: As we know, you started being a DJ at the age of 15. What was it like?

　　P: I just want to be involved in music, and I couldn't really play any instruments. Every kid wanted to be in a band. I just saw a DJ one day and I thought I could do that. So it started from that. It's very humble. Nobody was famous for being a DJ then, but at that stage we were just doing parties and weddings and different things. And eventually, after a couple of years, I got started running my own club. That was the best thing I ever did. I was very young still, but I ran my own night. And you started to get crowd, you started to get reputation, and people told other people that you worked as a DJ. It just went from there. Those were very early days. It was pre-acid house thing, and no one has thought by then of doing that in Shanghai or Tokyo, or Sydney, or Brazil. You know not that long ago, like ten years ago, traveling to Manchester would seem to be a long way from London. Now I go to shanghai for weekends, so we can say that the world has changed.

　　S：你从十五岁开始做DJ，那时候是怎么样的情况？

　　P：我只是想接触音乐，但是我什么乐器都不会。每个孩子都成为乐队的一份子。有一天我见到了一个DJ，我想我也能做。一切就从那时开始了。当时的状况很简陋。那时候没有人因为做DJ出名，但是在那个时候，我们作派对、婚礼和其他的一些东西。几年后，我开始经营自己的俱乐部。那是我做过的最棒的事情。尽管当时我还很小，但是已经做自己的专场。后来，人越来越多，开始有了名气，一传十，十传百。一切都是从那里开始的。那是很早的事情了，早于酸浩室舞曲。没有人会想在上海、东京、悉尼或者巴西做这种浩室舞曲。就像十年前，从伦敦去曼彻斯特都被看作是长途旅行。现在我可以来上海过周末，所以我们可以说世界变了。

　　S: Incredible. And your first experience is a wedding. How was that like?

　　P: I mean I started it by doing weddings. But I don't do many weddings now.

　　S：难以置信。你从一个婚礼开始做起，那是个什么样的婚礼？

　　P：我是说我从做婚礼开始的。但是我现在不太做婚礼了。

　　S: What kind of weddings?

　　P: I just did normal ones. And I found some famous weddings as well. Now I mean, when you are DJ, back in where I stay, early 80es or late 70es, anybody would book people. So anyway you could play your music and do your thing. But then I quit it very quickly, because I think doing weddings is not a good thing. Because they want me to do this, but I want to do that.

　　S：什么类型的婚礼？

　　P：我做过普通的婚礼。我也做过一些名人的婚礼。当你是一个DJ，回到我生活的地方，70年代末80年代初，每个人都会预约人，所以你可以玩你的音乐做你的事情。但是我很快就不干了，因为我觉得做婚礼不太好。因为他们想让我这样做，我却想要那样做。

　　S: Do you personally play any musical instruments?

　　P: I am kind of teaching myself back to piano. I learned piano and then I blunted it when I was a kid at school. And I wish I could really have done it. I mean I would recommend to any kid now that things will finally work out . It is a real regret that I didn't follow up on it. Because I realize now how much it could have helped me. So you know it's never too late.