With Bristol widely considered the capital of British underground dance music, native Pearce was presented with the ideal environment in which to launch his career as a DJ; he quickly became a resident at the local club nights Ripsnorter and Scream, and was able to secure his first gigs on the continent off the back of that success. He didn’t really rise to any kind of mainstream prominence, though, until 2011, when he signed to Pets Records and released a well-received single, ‘Entrance Song’.
Since then, he’s been a regular fixture at some of the biggest venues and festivals in the dance world - think Creamfields, Fabric, The Warehouse Project, Space and DC10 - as well as crossing over into mainstream festival territory, packing out tents at Glastonbury, Bestival and Secret Garden Party. In addition, Pearce has produced Essential Mixes for BBC Radio 1 at the behest of Pete Tong, and was the first ever resident DJ at new London club XOYO. He’s remixed tracks for the likes of Chicken Lips, Four Tet, X-Press 2, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and Jamie Jones, and count count a slew of awards to his name already, too: DJ Magazine’s ‘Best British DJ’ and ‘Best Breakthrough Producer’ among them, in 2012 and 2011 respectively.
Eats Everything should perhaps be called Beats Everything. His completely mastery of almost all genres and his ability to tie them together near seamlessly is a skill I envy. Seeing him live was like watching a master artist create a new masterpiece and knowing that never again will you witness something so perfect.
His willingness to embrace new music and different genres make his show unlike any house or other gig you will ever attend. Eats himself dances around his tables with an awkward grace. His movements seem like he is coaxing the music rather than directing it to do his will.
He appears deeply contemplative but was more than willing to talk and joke with anyone coming up to him in the club. A kindly and jovial man Eats has a kind of quiet yet open intensity to himself. The same way that he embraces different types of music he seems to embrace different types of people. He added a lot of funk to some mixes and coaxed wailing beats out of others while keeping a deep, rarely interrupted baseline throughout the entire set. Instead of relying on heavy repetition his mixes seemed to constantly be adding fresh material and he moved through songs like a hot knife through butter.