Detroit urban thing. Detroit and it’s economics and industry certainly didn’t impact me, I didn’t even go to Detroit until I was in high school, and that was just for a party, and I didn’t really go back until 88, after Big Fun came out... But a lot of people associate your sound with the industrial vibe of Detroit. Nope – definitely didn’t happen that way for me!!!!! How aware were you of the massive social and cultural impact Acid House had in the UK I felt it. I came over in early 1988 to do a couple of remixes, DJ a bit and do some promotion for the Ten compilation album that Big Fun was on. Then I came back in the summer, and just that quick, the movement had just started booming and growing like a virus. When I’d first played the clubs, it was kind of like America, you know, a bit poppy, nothing special and no real underground – you had the Hacienda in Manchester and
Heaven in London, but that was about it. Then when I came back, only months later you had all kinds of things going on in London, all kinds of clubs, all kinds of events. Then it started spreading throughout England and evolved into these huge warehouse parties. I experienced all of that, and then the change from house to techno, from 91 hardcore to drum n bass – I was there time and time again, kept coming back and I lived and experienced that whole movement. I went to them all, not just to perform or to play, but to breath it and to make sure that I was aware of it and a part of it often just by going to hear a DJ play or to go and watch the crowd. I may not have been there every week, but I lived it Did you run into any problems on the business end of the music? I was pretty fortunate. I had some good people around me, some good advisors, my brother was a manager from Brass Construction , so I already had some insights on what I didn’t know. Then I ran into Neil Rushton who was a superb manager, and for years we had a great relationship – he did right by me and we had a great run. I released as much as possible on my own label and so I really didn’t get into any ugly business deals. The worst that happened was getting stiffed by promoters on a few DJ gigs…….but that was in the beginning! You’ve had more aliases than half the CIA – do you like being undercover?