Pete Tong live from Los Angeles
Pete Tong was preparing to broadcast from a West Hollywood rooftop with DJs including Eric Prydz, MK, Claude VonStroke, Patrick Topping and Eats Everything. Scott and Chris accepted that they were not knowledgeable enough about dance music to distinguish every genuine name from something invented.
Pete’s assured delivery made the problem harder. If he introduced somebody as a world-class DJ, they instinctively believed him, even when the combination of words sounded absurd.
Real DJ or random words?
The production team edited excerpts from Pete’s programmes and placed them over convincing dance tracks. Scott and Chris then had to decide whether each apparent act was real or assembled from unrelated words.
Hot Spot Extravaganza sounded credible in Pete’s voice but did not exist. Purple Disco Machine sounded much more suspicious, yet turned out to be a genuine German act founded in 2009. Deep Trophy Cabinet was another fabrication, although both men thought it would make a better name than several of the real examples.
The game demonstrated that almost any words could become a plausible DJ identity if Pete Tong said them with enough authority. Scott proposed an app which would construct new names from pieces of his old links.
Friday also brought two listeners into Real or No Real and another reminder that Innuendo Bingo had entered a One-Direction-style hiatus. Steven Mulhern’s claim that a forthcoming Britain’s Got Talent contestant’s skill involved Tinder produced further questions about how such an act could survive a live show.
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