DJ P.A. PRESENTS
Biography
Op zijn 14e is Peter begonnen met disco plaatjes draaien in buurthuizen, school en op de jeugdsoos.
Veel platen werden door hem gekocht bij Kareltje in Utrecht en de bekende platenzaken in Amsterdam. Vervolgens is Peter zelf in een platenzaak gaan werken in Utrecht.
Door zijn draaien en werken in de platenzaak werd gevraagd om als resident in club Habbekrats (later Shiva) op de oudegracht in Utrecht te draaien. Daar leerde hij het vak en kon zijn netwerk in dancewereld flink uitbreiden.
Peter werd veel gevraagd om op veel feesten en in clubs zijn draaikunsten te vertonen. Hij draaide veel house (dat zijn nu de classics) in o.a. Tivoli, Melkweg, Paradiso, het Paard, Pinkpop, chosttown, Low lands, Nighttown enz.
Peter is later gaan produceren en hij heeft hij diverse successen geboekt met o.a. P.A. Presents -Entangleden, diverse 12″ platen en een compleet album.
Peter, “a.k.a. DJ P.A. Presents” is nog regelmatig op feesten en event te vinden en tot op de dag van vandaagj produceert hij nog volop,
Nineties Utrecht DJ legend and producer P.A. Presents (Peter Aarsman) ironically is the only artist on U-TRAX that actually is born and bred in the city of Utrecht. Even more irony lies in the fact that he hasn’t lived in the city (or “stadsie” in Utregs, the local dialect) for 25 years and has only recently returned ‘home’.
Peter knew he wanted to be a DJ since he was ten years old, in a time when this was still a very unusual career to dream about. Long before house music had landed in Europe, Peter was fiddling around with disco and italo 12”-es and he was an active player in the early hiphop and electric boogie scene in the Utrecht quarter Lunetten in the 80s. All those years of training is what made him the superior DJ that he still is today. In terms of skills, flair, energy and feel for the dance floor, Peter can rival with any of today’s DJs.
While the era of house of techno of the late 80s and the 90s brought him countless DJ gigs, his reputation didn’t cross the city borders much, until he bought his first gear and started producing techno music himself. Again, his DJ background proved helpful with producing his tracks, as most of his tracks are dancefloor orientated and usually have an impeccable timing.
Peter debuted with the mini-album Salicylic Acid on U-TRAX in 1993, followed by the Flight Stimulator EP a year later. Both are classics today, but neither brought him as much fame as his 12” Entangled did on Deviate, a record label that was started by a couple of our friends from Utrecht a year prior to U-TRAX. Entangled made it to many charts and compilation albums, including Carl Craig’s mix CD that was just the second release in !K7’s DJ-Kicks series.
In 2019 Peter returned as a producer with new vinyl and digital releases on U-TRAX: Swirling Gas EP and Sax Madness EP. In 2020, his first two releases were combined into a top-quality re-release called Flight Acid/Salicylic Stimulator.