Private-Event DJ · Los Angeles
Services
Weddings, fundraisers, milestone parties. A vinyl-rooted ear, a modern dance-floor instinct, and the calm of someone who has read a thousand rooms.
Services · 01
Built for the room you are filling.
Each event is scoped from the first call: venue, guest count, energy curve, ceremony cues, special toasts, and the songs that mean something. Then it is loaded into the night.
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Weddings
Ceremony, cocktail, dinner, dance. MC duties handled with restraint. A playlist that honors both grandmothers and the friend group that closes the bar.
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Fundraisers · Galas
Background ambience during the program, a clean cue for the auction, and a proper dance floor after the last paddle goes down.
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Private Parties
Birthdays, anniversaries, holiday throwdowns, backyard blowouts. Tasteful volume early, no-skip section late.
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Corporate · Brand
Product launches, holiday parties, off-sites. Read the brief, read the room, read the clock.
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Ceremony & Cocktail
Standalone bookings for the quieter part of the day — strings, soul, bossa, Brazilian, golden-era jazz. Just the right amount of pulse.
Why Peter · 02
The DJ you hire when the room matters.
Peter Carlstedt has been DJing private events across Southern California for over two decades. The work is invisible when it is going right — guests dancing, parents smiling, the schedule on rails, the bride saying the speech landed.
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One DJ. Every event.
No subcontracting. The person you meet is the person at the booth.
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A real consultation.
Pre-event call to map the timeline, must-plays, do-not-plays, and family notes.
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Backup on every gig.
Redundant decks, redundant mixer, redundant cables. The party does not stop.
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Reads the room.
Pulled requests for tone, not algorithm. The floor decides what plays next.
Sound · 03
A crate-digger’s ear, for a modern floor.
The library is decades deep — from a disco 12” to a Motown single, from Afrobeat reissues to Classic Reggae, playing the tracks DJs trade phone numbers for. That research shows up in the small choices: Harry Styles “Watermelon Sugar” crossing into Sabrina Carpenter “Feather”, Donna Summer “Love to Love You Baby” crossing into Jackie Wilson “(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher & Higher”, Ella Fitzgerald “Small Hotel” into Peggy Lee “Is That All There Is?” . . .
Reviews · 04
What hosts say after the lights come up.
Selected feedback from past private events.
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“The dance floor never emptied. He read every group at our wedding — the cousins, the work friends, my dad’s college roommates — and somehow kept them all out there.”
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“Calm during the program, fire after. Our auction ran a full hour long and he adapted the whole set without missing a cue.”
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“Brought vinyl for the cocktail hour. Half the guests stopped to ask what was playing. I have never seen a dance floor open so naturally.”
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“Professional from the first email to load-out. The pre-event call was the difference — he knew exactly which song to skip, and which to stretch.”
Booking · 05
Request a quote.
Tell me about the event. I will reply within one business day with availability and a clear quote. For urgent requests, call directly.
- Phone 310 · 749 · 7439
- Email petestedt@mac.com
- Based in Los Angeles · available throughout SoCal