| Info: | * MR C
& Francis Harris aka The Sycophant Slags (End Recordings, London)
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For 15 years Mr C has played a pivotal role in dance music. As a popstar with international pop-techno pranksters The Shamen, Mr C headlined Glastonbury and reached Number One - all with a knowing nod and a wink. As an underground DJ, producer and protagonist, Mr C has been there from acid house's early days, through the creation of 'tech house', to helping redraw dance music's future with his shiny, metallic West End club The End.
"I phoned round the main movers and groovers in the tech-house scene and said, 'Look, if we all start using this word to create a genre for ourselves, the press can jump on it. All of a sudden we're going to be seen as the leaders of this music.' And it worked." It's a story that's typical of someone who's always been a scene leader, who's spent most of his career being ahead of his time. "I've got a very low boredom threshold," he grins. Finally, it seems the rest of us are catching up.
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