MR. C
"CHANGE"

(THE END)
2LP/CD

[RELEASE: JUNE 2002]

As part of The Shamen, Mr. C unashamedly popularised the underground UK dance scene, making a movement that was once exclusive (and not that successful) into a permanent chart fixture. When The Shamen split, Mr. C continued his crusade with his own record label and the internationally acclaimed London club, The End.

2002 and the man finally release his debut solo set, 'Change'. ‘Change’ is the album Mr. C’s international brigade of admirers have long anticipated – and it’s been worth the wait. This sweeping collection of shifting moods, colours and textures is too wide in scope to be dismissed as tech-house, though it borrows that genre’s insistence on not settling for the obvious.

It’s a mood-enhancing record that reaches for the sky, while never letting go of the groove. And it comes after a period during which Mr C’s life changed beyond recognition, hence the title. The tumult is captured in the nervy, pulsating blues-house of ‘Hectic Times’, with its wailing harmonica. His hypnotic, whispered raps turn up on numbers like the sexually-charged ‘Give It All’ and the sci-fi disco of ‘Ascension’. The pumping, yet poignant grooves of ‘The Club’ feature gloriously ghostly vocals from soulful house legend Robert Owens. Former Shamen vocalist Victoria Wilson-James – now a West End diva – turns the pulsating deep house of ‘Circles Of Love’ into a sinister, breathy torch song. And the icy ‘Terricola’ – with its robo-electro beats and machine voices – captures the romance in his new life.