UZI

In the early 90's Peter Tanahatoe (DJ UZI) started playing Hip Hop music in a youth centre in his home town of Leeuwarden. There he started a Hip Hip formation with 3 of his friends called '2 damn dope'. 3 Mc's and him as the DJ. When time went by a new music scene crossed there path 'House'. In the beginning of the house era they only watched it as visitors. Later they got more involved in the scene.

In '93 Peter started to buy house records and gave 2 party's at the youth centre.

In '94 a paty named 'gates to hell' introduced itself near the city of Leeuwarden. These party's where a huge success and Peter and one of his friends decided to organize the after party in a club in Leeuwarden.

After a few successful '7 gates' party's the organisation invited Peter to spin his records at one of their party's. There he got noticed by one of the guys from ID&T who asked him if he was interested to play at a 'Thunderdome on tour' in the north of Holland.

On this party he got company from one of the MC's of his old Hip Hop group and it became a huge success. They decided to kept this format and became known as UZI and Da Mouth of Madness.

In 1996 they were asked to play on the big Thunderdome 96 party in their home town, this was a dream come thru. After that they performed at Thunderdome, Love parade, Shadowlands, Earthquake, several times Misteryland and many more party's in Holland and abroad.

After a short period of taking it easy Peter made a short crossover to the beginning of hardstyle. He played on Qlub tempo, Lady Dana and Holland exclusive, and 2 fast 4 trance. In this period he got asked to play more of the old early hardcore tunes. Peter took his records out of the shelves and played his records on House qlassics, Hardbase and Project hardcore.nl. In 2008 he also played at the mystery area on Mystery land and several smaller party's.

DJ UZI is one of the few DJ's who played at major party's in the past without releasing a record himself.