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BORNTerry: “I was born in 1966 in Epsom”FAMILY Terry: I got to about 14 and realised that I enjoyed dancing I started listening to early soul stuff, Motown, that kind of thing. I actually got into a bit of rock when I was 15. That was my brother’s influence really his room was next to mine and I had to listen to it every day. I wasn’t into school really. I wasn’t really very good at school but I went. I was better at art and crafts than the academic stuff. Later on my Mum and Dad thought I was wasting my time. All they could hear was ‘BANG-BANG-BANG’ coming from my room, they thought I was just wasting my money on records and staying up all night when it would never go anywhere. They are really proud of me now. It’s the same for any walk of life that’s not the norm I suppose. MUSICAL ROOTS Terry: “I’ve always collected music. I never bought pop stuff really even the rock I was into was stuff like Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. Dub reggae was the next thing, listening to David Roddigan on Radio London on a Sunday while I was outside fixing my moped. I met this guy when I was 16 that got me into more black-orientated music. I got heavily into funk and soul, was going round buying old disco records. The same guy gave me some early house records. FIRST PROJECTS Terry: “When I was about 15 I wired two tape decks together into one, trying to blend the music so that I could do a tape. I got my first decks when I was 19/20 and I had no idea what the pitch controls were for. I taught myself, totally. I started doing my mate’s bar in Leatherhead. It was this rockers’ place I knew they wanted music and my mate new I had decks so it made sense to run a night in there. The first couple of weeks we did it the rockers were like ‘what the fuck’s this shit? This is terrible.’ They was all ‘avin it about three weeks later. I’m well known for working at Swag Records [a shop in Croydon, South London] too. That just fizzled out really, although I still go in and rob records off them. I was working there for seven years. Winning the ‘Best Newcomer’ title at the Muzik Awards was a help to me around that time too – I didn’t like to mention I’d been DJing for ten years… but then again, Derrick Carter won it the year before!”LABELS & PRODUCTION Terry: “As well as Housey Doingz I’ve produced on loads of labels. The key ones would probably be Pagan, Eye 4 Sound, Swag and Eukahouse. I also did two compilations through Pagan called ‘Architecture’ 1 and 2. I didn’t do anything for about two years. I think I burnt myself out a bit and it’s been really nice to have a break, but I’ve been getting back into it lately. I’m gonna do an artist album for Fabric – we have different people working on it with me. It’s not a dancefloor album either, it’ll be funk or reggae, anything goes really. We’re gonna get some percussionists in so it should be quite entertaining. It’ll be more of a concept album than a club album, it’ll be a nice little project to work on rather than straight of the mill club music. No master plan with it really, just seeing what happens.”FABRIC Terry: “It’s just the music really suits the place – it’s industrial, it’s dark but it’s clean at the same time. Everything seems to suit each other so well. The soundsystem is just so good; when you play records on it they just really come alive.