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Mr C

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London

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House

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Electronic

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Trippy

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1966

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1982 to Present...

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The Shamen

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Richard West aka Mr.C was born in London in 1966. He started MCing in the London clubs aged only 16 and soon earned a reputation as a fast-talking, vivacious rapper working with LWR radio's Ron Tom, Jasper the Vinyl Junkie and Jazzy M. Mr.C then hooked up with Colin Faver and Evil Eddie Richards to become resident rapper at Camden Palace going on to MC for Colin Faver on the then illegal Kiss FM. Mr.C went into the studio to record his first house track with Eddie Richards as Myster-E, which was released in August 1987. This inspired Mr.C to become a DJ to learn more about his beloved House and Techno music so in late 1987 Richard took to the decks. Mr.C has since organised, promoted and been resident DJ at: Fantasy (1988), Base (Dungeons 1989), Release (1991), Harmony (1992), Drop (1993), Cyclone (1994), Vapourspace (1994 and 1995), Flavour (The End 1995 and 1996), Subterrain (The End 1995–2002), Superfreq (Worldwide 2002–present) and Super Disco Freq (LA 2010–present).

In December 1995 Mr.C opened the legendary night club The End in London with Partner Layo Paskin and then AKA bar three years later, which celebrated its 13th anniversary in December 2008 and was lauded as one of the best night clubs in the world, which completely changed the face of clubbing in London and beyond. Sadly The End and AKA closed its doors for good on 24 January 2009.

Mr.C is founder and owner of Plink Plonk records, co-founder of End Recordings and co-founder and owner of the Superfreq label. Mr.C has recorded under the names Myster-E, Unity 2, Nu Jacks, Bass Bureau, The Shamen, Mantrac, Somnambulist, Animus Amour, Killer Loop, Mr.C and Tom Parris, Mr.C and 16B and the Sycophant Slags. Mr.C is best known as frontman of The Shamen with whom he notched up a string of top 10 hits including "Move Any Mountain" and the UK number 1 hit "Ebeneezer Goode". The Shamen also won a highly coveted Ivor Novello award for Songwriters of the year UK in 1992. Richard is currently recording solo as Mr.C and is also doing collaborations as the Sycophant Slags with Francis Harris aka Adultnapper, as the Indigo Kidz with Affie Yusuf, and with Omid 16b, and has recent releases on Poker Flat, Wagon Repair Records, Get Physical Music and Adjunct Audio. Mr.C's EP, "Something Strange Part's 1 and 2" has caused a real storm in the second half of 2012, as did his recent remix for Fractious on NB records. Mr.C has been extremely busy doing remixes for Mikael Stavöstrand and David Scuba, Francis Harris, Xo Chic, Joint Custody and Affie Yusuf and also has his solo EP "I'm gonna Give You Some" and his new "Smell The Coffee" album, as well as collaborations with Affie Yusuf, Omid 16b released in 2013.

Mr.C runs and promotes Superfreq events, which celebrates being 15 years old in March 2017 and ran monthly at Mr.C's club The End until it closed down in January 2009. Superfreq now functions bi-monthly in London including a bi-annual residency at the legendary nightclub Fabric and spends the rest of the time hopping around London’s popup warehouse venues and various clubs including London’s newest hottest venue The Steelyard after an extremely successful event with Richie Hawtin in December 2015. Superfreq does regular events in Los Angeles as well as bi-monthly events in Calais France and annual events in Brooklyn, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, Miami, Dallas, Denver and Washington DC in the United States and also Vancouver, Playa Del Carmen, Mexico DF, Moscow, Ibiza, Bogota, Montañita and other one off / annual events the world over and has recently competed an Asia tour hitting Manila, Phnom Penh, Siem Reap, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Beijing and Shenzhen. Superfreq has accomplished 7 successful seasons in Ibiza, 3 at Club Underground, 2 at the legendary DC10, 1 season at Blu, 3 events at Aura and hosts annual events at BPM Festival in Playa Del Carmen. Mr.C has just finished his brand new album entitled Incidents, which is due for releases on vinyl and CD on his Superfreq imprint on 10 April 2017 with singles from the album due on 6 March, 24 May and the end of June all containing big name cutting edge remixes. Mr.C has his “Stand Up” track taken from the Incidents album out now on the Save Fabric compilation album. His new Soulfuric track has just been released on Alola and has his new Liquid Acid track has just been released on DJ Pierre’s “Acid 88” album on Afro Acid. He also has a remix of Dinnarie and Bissen on Good For You records being released in January and a remix of Banco De Gaia coming out in February, which will all lead up to his album release nicely.