Pepe Deluxé is a Finnish electronic music-oriented band, formed in 1996 by DJ Slow (Vellu Maurola) JA-Jazz (Tomi Castrén, formerly Paajanen) and James Spectrum (Jari Salo) in Helsinki, Finland.
With the 2007 release Spare Time Machine the band gave up on sampling and concentrated on vintage music styles including psychedelia, baroque pop and surf rock.
[2] The Pepe Deluxé live line-up consists of Mirkka Paajanen (vocals), Miikka Paatelainen (guitar, theremin), Markku Reinikainen (drums), Ville Riippa (keyboards), James Spectrum (mixing, percussion) and Edward Greendanger (VJ).
The new version of the album was released subsequently in France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, United States, Australia and Germany.
20 in the UK Singles Chart the same year,[5] and it was also used on the end credits for the Channel 4 comedy quiz show, Alan Carr's Celebrity Ding Dong.
During this time, Pepe Deluxé undertook several remixes for acts such as Tom Jones, The Cardigans, Eminem and Jacknife Lee.
They also created a video for the single (showing a master training an apprentice in martial arts using salami and bacon), which was chosen as 'Video of the Decade' by Bizarre magazine.
[7] In October 2007, "Mischief Of Cloud 6" was used at the beginning of an episode of the ABC drama Private Practice, entitled "In Which Addison Finds the Magic".