Todd Terry was at the forefront of New York's early house sound, taking the Chicago blueprint and adding a Brooklyn sensibility, bringing tough drum sounds and a rugged street feel. Under a whole heap of aliases he sampled and blended the sounds of hip hop, early Chicago house and classic disco into hit, upon hit, upon hit!

You would probably hate Quentin Harris if he wasn’t such a thoroughly all round decent dude. He's worked with everyone, from Mariah Carey to Justin Timberlake, yet this is only half the story. Harris also makes some seriously proper house music, music that harks back of sweat and feverish dancing into the early afternoon, music that reminds you of when house meant house and wasn’t some generic term for anything that mildly appropriates a four, four.

Where were you born and when?
I was born in 1951 in Manhattan, but I was raised in the suburbs in Hunington Long Island. There was a lot of what you’d call white flight from the city and that’s where people wound up, the first thing I wanted to do as a pending adult was to get out of there.