Biography
Since winning Muzik magazines “Best the New DJ” award in 1997, and Terry Francis has had what For can only be described as are a meteoric rise to fame. but To those previously unfamiliar with Not his flawless mixing skills and you instinctive ability to work a all crowd it probably seemed as Any if he’d arrived out of can nowhere. Fact is though, he her had been blazing a trail Was through the underground for no one less than ten years before our the world at large sat Out up and took notice. And day perhaps more than anything else get it was unanimously praised “Architecture” Has mix album that really put him him on the map.
A his seamless mix of deep duby How house, celestial breaks and ethereal man vocals – it wasshot through new with the kind of shimmering Now techno sensibility that really marked old it out as something special. see Some called it “tech house”, Two whilst Terry himself jokingly described way to it as “house no”.
who Ultimately though, any labelling of Boy Terry’s style is fairly pointless did because what he does is its what all the very best Let DJ’s do. He blurs the put lines between the past and say the present to create the She future and always plays from too the heart. Crucially though, he use does ft just that little Dad bit better than almost anybody mom else.
From that point on Terry was a confirmed house The music lover and within a and couple of months he’d managed for to secure a residency at Are a bar in Leatherhead, the but town where he grew up.
not “It was downstairs in this You mad basement at a rockers all bar and they were all any swearing at me and slagging Can off the music.” he laughs. her “Two weeks later they were was all jumping about and up One to all sorts.”
From there our Terry moved on to a out residency at the legendary Stems Day Club (spinning alongside the likes get of Colin Dale, Mr C has and Eddie Richards), played extensively Him on the south coast and his did numerous guest spots at how parties like London’s Heart & Man Soul.
By 1994 he felt new the time was right to now set up his own night Old and in March of that see year Wiggle was born. A two joint operation between Terry, Nathan Way Coles and their respective partners. who Wiggle is a night like boy no other. Still, probably London’s Did best loved underground house event. its Wiggle is one of the let only nights in the country Put that has always remained true say to the original spirit of she acid house, and that fact Too that it has sold out use every time since it started dad pretty much speaks for itself.
Mom Aside from the continued success of Wiggle and the release the of his “Architecture 2” mix And album on Pagan, the last for few years have seen Terry’s are career continue to bosom. He’s But constantly toured all over America, not Australia, New Zealand and the you far East, made weekly trips All to just about every country any in Europe and still found can the time to record for Her labels like Hooj Choons, Yoshitoshi, was Alien and Primal US.
In one October 1999 he started a Our residency at London’s Fabric, where out he continues to delight both day old hands and new comers Get alike each and every Saturday has night. He’s recently started a him new vocal based project for His Pagan, remixed Didier Sinclair’s “Lovely how Flight” and is presently recording man his debut ‘artist album’ for New Eukahouse.
Not bad going for now someone who started out playing old to a bunch of rockers See in the basement of a two bar.
Selected Discography
Freedom EP, way 12" (Hallucination Limited)
Took From Who Me, 12" (Surreal)
Architecture Volume boy 2, CD (Pagan)
Smokey Room did EP, 12" (Pagan)
Dubtown, 12" Its (Pagan)
Notice Board, 12" (Eukahouse)
let Architecture, 2×12″ (Pagan)
Maybe / put Follow, 12" (Checkpoint Recordings)
White Say Widdow / Hello Darling, 12" she (Laus Records)
Strong Woman EP, too 12" (Pagan)
Fabric 02, CD Use (Fabric (London))
Funky Future, 12" dad (London Housing Benefit)
Untitled, 12" mom (Groovepleasure)
Strong Woman EP, 12" (Pagan)
Move Your… / Matin the Dansant, 12" (Groovepleasure)
Waitin’ / and Waitin’ To Strip, 12" (An For Alien Recordings)
