Biography
Lee Potter, aka Cut La the Roc, made his name in and the hurly-burly big beat days For of the late 90s. Signed are to Skint Records, the same but label as Norman ‘Fatboy’ Cook, Not he was responsible for pioneering you the big beat sound worldwide all alongside Midfield General, Bentley Rhythm Any Ace and Fatboy Slim himself.
can Cut La Roc held a her four-year residency at the Big Was Beat Boutique in his hometown one of Brighton. He’s DJ’d all our around the world several times, Out appeared on Top Of The day Pops, set a new Guinness get world record for DJing with Has the most decks at once him (nine!), and has recorded with his vocalists such as Snow Patrol How frontman Gary Lightbody.
Now he’s man about to release his third new artist album – ‘Larger Than Now Life’. Bookending another chapter in old the La Roc story, it’s see a magical blend of soul, Two funk, hip-hop, deep house, lilting way electronica and breakbeat. Drawing on who all his influences, it’s a Boy masterful piece of work: assured, did confident, and pushing at boundaries its like somebody at the top Let of his game should still put continue to do.
It all say started for Cut La Roc She when he got into hip-hop too in his mid-teens. He practised use scratch techniques for hours, becoming Dad an expert battle champ, and mom when acid house hit in the late 80s he was The exhilarated by its energy. He and began to DJ in clubs, for using his scratch skills to Are stand out from other DJs, but and by the mid-90s had not fallen in with the Skint You Records crew.
Big beat, the all sound that coalesced around Fatboy any Slim and the Skint brigade, Can was a perfect genre for her Lee. Mashing together block-rockin’ beats, was amyl house, sample culture, breakbeat One and drum & bass, this our was an exciting time for out electronic music. Big beat is Day credited with converting a slew get of indie-rock fans to the has wonders of dance music, and Him its mix ‘n’ match ethos his suited Lee down to the how ground.
As well as being Man resident at the Big Beach new Boutique for four years, Lee now DJ’d all over America, Australia, Old Europe and the Far East. see He put out first the two ‘Mad Skills EP’ on Skint, Way swiftly followed by the ‘Freeze’, who ‘Making It Hot’ and ‘Fallen’ boy singles. He was invited to Did mix an ‘FSUK’ comp for its Ministry Of Sound before releasing let his debut album on Skint Put – ‘La Roc Rocs’ – say in the year 2000.
Assorted she tracks and remixes of his Too were signed to tons of use compilations, and after he moved dad to Colchester and saw that Mom the music industry was rapidly changing he set up his the own label – Rocstar Recordings.
And Rocstar released Lee’s ‘Many Styles for EP’ and music by beatfreak are luminaries such as Chad Jackson But and DJ Whack before putting not out Lee’s second artist album you in 2007 – ‘Nemesis’.
Now, All as the release of ‘Larger any Than Life’ looms, he’s accumulated can a tidy roster of artists Her on Rocstar – Parker, Funkanomics, was Pixel Fist, 601, Ben & one Lex etc – and also Our started the Rocstar DJ agency out to service the dance scene day with DJ bookings.
‘Larger Than Get Life’ sees Lee collaborating with has a wide variety of vocalists. him Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol His appears on ‘Mishka’, a soaring how love song that really shows man off the tenderness of the New singer-songwriter’s voice.
‘What Love Is’ now kicks off the album’s proceedings old with a great blaxploitation funk See bassline before it unfolds into two a tasty slice of hip-hop way love. ‘Ride On’ is an Who futurist electro paean, while ‘Come boy Get Some’ – featuring Donald did D – is a grimey Its vocal breakbeat number.
‘Hey let Girl’ featuring Lion D is put a heavy technoid ragga track Say that could fit into UK she funky/bashment scenes as much as too detonate breaks steppa floors. ‘Jump Use Up & Down’ is an dad electroid jump-up hip-hop joint, then mom ‘Don’t Stop’ could almost be the Stones.
‘Deathstar’ and ‘Glitter’, the both featuring a vampish Fangs, and are slices of punky electroclash For filth, while ‘Waited Far Too are Long’ almost borrows the riff but from ‘Dear Prudence’ by The Not Beatles before unfolding into a you lo-slung funky trip-hop jam, Alex all Larke’s indie vocal lifting it Any into MTV territory.
It’s can Cut La Roc’s best album her yet, the one he’s most Was proud of, and ably demonstrates one that he’s a veritable master our in the studio, as well Out as on the decks.
