Pete Heller's Big Love

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Pete Heller's Big Love is an alias of English house producer Pete Heller. Pete Heller's biggest hit, Big Love, was released under this alias. Pete created Big Love in 1998, sampling the guitar riff and vocals from Stargard's song "Wear It Out". Upon release, the track "blew up big time", charted in the US and UK, and was regarded by Billboard as the "number #1 dance track of 1999". Pete released Big Love initially under Junior London, then Subliminal and eventually Essential. The iconic Keith Haring-inspired sleeve comes from the Essential release. In 2019, esteemed record label Defected Records rereleased Big Love on streaming platforms under their sublabel, Glitterbox. The Junior release contained a B-side, "Atlanta", and the Subliminal/Essential releases also contains a The Dronez remix. Pete Heller's Big Love is a mainstay of the French Touch/filter house movement in the late 90s to early 2000s. It uses several characteristics of filter house - a repetitive sample, and filters. Pete uses a flanger and low-pass often in the track. It is often erroneously believed that Pete only sampled the vocals from Wear It Out. A Defected Records blog post mentions the story of Big Love: It’s 1998. Pete’s long-time studio partner Terry Farley has gone to watch his beloved Chelsea FC play. Pete has a few hours to kill, and a vocal snippet from Stargard’s disco standard Wear It Out stored in his trusty Akai sampler that’s been nagging away at him. 12 hours later, he had the outline

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Big Love

Big Love (David Penn Remix)

Big Love (Eat Me Edit)

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Big Love (Dr Packer Remix)

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Return of the 90s

12 Inch Dance: 90s Club

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Pacha Ibiza House Anthems

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Big Love (David Penn Remix) - Single

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Defected Presents Classics In the House

Defected Presents House Masters - David Penn

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Big Love - Single

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Cool - Dance

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