Lee Potter (born 4 January 1972), known by his stage name Cut La Roc, is a British electronic musician, considered as a pioneer of

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, a genre fusing elements of hip hop,

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and

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Biography

Potter grew up in

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, England, and was signed to the British record label, Rocstar Recordings. He started creating and producing music when

acid house Acid house (also simply known as just "acid") is a subgenre of house music developed around the mid-1980s by DJs from Chicago. The style is defined primarily by the squelching sounds and basslines of the Roland TB-303 electronic bass synthesiz ...

came on at the end of the eighties. In an interview he described the cause of his "infection" for electronic music and DJing: "I'd never really liked house music up until then, but this was kind of different, because it had the hip-hop element through the breakbeats, it made total sense to me". In 1998, he released "Post Punk Progression" which ''

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'' lauded as "what the Beatles would have sounded like if they'd invented jungle". In 1999, Cut La Roc produced and released a mix album for the

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's FSUK imprint and performed and produced with 9 decks. He spent three years consistently DJing in Australia, the United States, Europe and Asia. His DJ sets feature old school hip hop and G-funk to modern hip hop and trap. In 1995, Cut La Roc appeared on BBC One's ''

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'' as the late electronic musician Wildchild on the original version of "Renegade Master", before

Fatboy Slim Norman Quentin Cook (born Quentin Leo Cook, 31 July 1963), also known by his stage name Fatboy Slim, is an English musician, DJ, and record producer who helped to popularise the big beat genre in the 1990s. In the 1980s, Cook was the bassist f ...

remixed and revived the song in 1998. In 2001, he produced along with

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, the songs "Fallen" and "Mishka". As well as Lightbody co-producing both of the songs, he also provided the vocals. Cut La Roc held a four-year residency at the 'Big Beat Boutique' and performed alongside fellow big beat musicians

and Armand Van Helden.

References

External links

Cut La Roc on MyspaceCut La Roc's Label Rocstar RecordingCut La Roc's profile on Resident Advisor
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