Richard West aka Mr.C was born in London in the late 60’s. He started MCing in the London clubs aged only 16 & soon earned a reputation as a fast talking vivacious rapper working with LWR radio’s Ron Tom, Jasper the Vinyl Junkie & Jazzy M. Mr.C then hooked up with Colin Faver & Evil Eddie Richards to became 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 1st house track with Eddie Richards as Myster-E in 1987. This inspired Mr.C to become a DJ to learn more about his beloved House & Techno music so in late ‘87 Richard took to the decks.
Mr.C has since organized, promoted & been resident dj at: Fantasy (‘88), Base (Dungeons ‘89), Release (91), Harmony (92), Drop (93), Cyclone (94), Vapourspace (94 & 95), Flavour (The End 95 & 96), Subterrain (The End (95 - 2002), Superfreq (The End/Paramount/Junk Club/Bardot/World-wide 2002 - Present) & Super Disco Freq (2010).
In December 1995 Mr.C opened the legendary End Club in London with Partner Layo Paskin & then AKA bar 3 years later, which celebrated its 13th anniversary in December 2008.
Sadly The End & AKA closed its doors for good on January 24th 2009. 1 Chapter closes & another begins.
Mr.C is founder & owner of Plink Plonk records, cofounder of End Recordings & cofounder & owner of Superfreq Records. Mr.C has recorded under the names, Myster-E, Nu Jacks, Bass Bureau, The Shamen, Mantrac, Somnambulist, Animus Amour, Killer Loop, Mr.C & Tom Parris & Mr.C & 16B.
Mr.C has also done lots of radio hosting his 1st weekly show on pirate station LWR in 1988. He then went on to host shows on Fantasy FM & Dance FM before joining London's biggest dance station Kiss 100 where he did his Future Music show for 10 years but sadly had to let this go due to recording & touring commitments.
Mr.C is best known as front man of the pop group The Shamen with whom he notched up a string of top 10 hits including Move Any Mountain & the number 1 hit Ebeneezer Goode. The Shamen also won a highly coveted Ivor Novelo for Songwriters of the year 1992. Richard’s currently recording solo as Mr.C or as the Sycophant Slags with his production partner Adultnapper with releases on Sexonwax, End Rec, Hallucination Ltd, Superfreq records, Bombis Records, Poker Flat Records & Wagon Repair Records & has EP’s in stores now under both monikers on both Poker Flat & Wagon Repair.
Mr.C has just finished recording his new Album Smell The Coffee which he intends to have released on all formats in Autumn 2011. He has new single Something Strange with [a]pendics.shuffle being released on all formats on Adjunkt Audio in June 2011 & the new Anti Sailing EP with Adultnapper as the Sycophant Slags released in July 2011 on Get Physical Music.
Mr.C also runs & promotes Superfreq events, which is now in its 10th year & ran monthly at Mr.C's club, The End until it closed down in January 2009. Superfreq now has a monthly residency as Superfreq E’special at the amazing luxury members club Paramount, perched 31 floors above London on the top of the famous landmark Center Point, another monthly at the stylish Bardot at Avalon Los Angeles & another at LE Tub in Calais. Superfreq also holds quarterly events at Junk Club in Southampton, SpyBar Chicago, With GUM in Montañita & Various locations in New york. Now that Mr.C has moved base camp to L.A Where he's already started Super Disco Freq which is the 1st Tuesday each month at Short Stop, Echo Park & he intends to take Superfreq as one off parties all around the States.
Superfreq has accomplished 6 successful seasons in Ibiza, 3 at Club Underground, 2 seasons at DC10 & last Season at Blu. Superfreq has also completed 5 annual tours of South America & has also done 1 off shows the world over including U.S.A, Canada, Mexico, China, England, Spain, Italy, Holland, Belgium, Lithuania, France, Croatia, Greece, Latvia & Russia to name but a few places.
Lastly, as Richard West, Mr.C has been regularly studying “Spiritual Psychology of Acting” for over 6 years now. He’s more than ready for action & already has a supporting role in a feature film lined up which shoots in the autumn of 2010. We’ll tell you more about this as things develop. Richard has also just moved to LA from London to test his skills in the big playground.
In the meantime, watch out for the new releases of both the Lunar EP by Mr.C on Wagon Repair & Keep Off by Sycophant Slags on Poker Flat, both in stores now & digital versions of the Sycophant Slags remix of Reverse Commuter, the Dharma Fields remixes, all on Hallucination Ltd & also listen out for the Mr.C remix of Hijacker & Stick on Bombis.
Profiles:
http://facebook.com/mrcsuperfreq
http://myspace.com/mrcsuperfreq
http://twitter.com/mrcsuperfreq
http://youtube.com/user/richardfreq
Groups:
Superfreq: http://facebook.com/group.php?gid=25931874259
Websites:
www.superfreq.org
www.endclub.com