It's Pete Tong all gone

Radio 1's Essential Mix has soundtracked the UK's Friday Night pre-clubbing, vodka and ironing for an astonishing 14 years. Each week, Pete Tong mixes up 2 hours of banging house, techno and trance. If you wanted a snapshot of what's happening in clubs across the country you could do a lot worse.

However, the dulcet tones of the host have rather irked the Tongless website. In fact, Tongless have taken such a dislike to our Pete that they've started recording their own doppelganger essential mixes - exact copies with identical tracklists.... only with no Tong. It's no small feat when you consider that 70% of the Essential Mix is made up of unreleased tunes and white labels. Talk about gratitude.