Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music oriented band which was created by two DJ friends, Vellu Maurola aka DJ Slow and Tomi Paajanen aka JA-Jazz in the mid 90s in Helsinki, Finland. In 1995, James Spectrum aka Jari Salo, joined the band and they started to experiment with sounds of hip hop, big beat, breakbeat and downtempo. DJ Slow departed the band in 2001 to pursue his solo projects. History One of Pepe Deluxé's first tracks, called "Call Me Goldfinger" was picked up on the compilation Return of the DJ 2 in 1996. The band's first EP, Three Times a Player (Tiger) was released in 1998 and it was chosen as the downtempo album of the month on the revered Muzik magazine in the UK. This led to a record deal with Brighton's Catskills Records. The band's first album, called Super Sound was released 1999. Due to clearance problems (the tracks were heavily sampled), they had to

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