As the son of a jazz trumpeter, Rennie Pilgrim could claim to have music in his blood! He started playing tenor saxophone in his youth emerssing himself in 'black' music he formed various funk bands. In the late 80's after hearing the music coming from he Detroit scene, Rennie started to make house techo records with Rhythm Section aka Ellis Dee, Richard Thake and Nick 'Newton' Scott.
Their third release 'Comin' On Strong' was a anthem and would have charted top 40 if they'd known about 'bar codes' on records. With Ellis Dee the crowned king of rave Djs, Rhythm Section played at pretty much every main party between '90-92'. On the same bill as The Prodigy, Moby, Altern 8, Shades Of Rhythm and Bizzare Inc.
In 1993 Rennie founded TCR Recordings as a medium for putting out his own material. His first few releases were funky house with a smattering of breaks lurking in the background. Recording now as 'Thursday Club' he had a big tune with 'Thursday Theme' which was chased by Virgin. Rennie followed this up with 'A Place Called Acid' in 1995.
Rennie has remixed for a wide range of people from Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince to Freq Nasty and Arthur Baker.
Stretching from the rave explosion of the early '90s to the development of nu breaks around the end of the millennium, producer/remixer/DJ Rennie Pilgrem has led the way for tough techno. He started out in Rhythm Section, authors of the early breakbeat hit "Feel the Rhythm (Comin on Strong)," and kept producing during the mid-'90s with tracks such as "Thursday Club" for Aura Surround Sounds and R&S. Pilgrem also set up his own Friction label with fellow nu breaks pioneer Adam Freeland, and furthered the sound with a pair of Nu School Breakz compilations.
Another Pilgrem-run label, TCR (for Thursday Club Recordings), spread the breaks gospel as well; with help from old-school breaks pioneer Arthur Baker, Pilgrem produced two of the label's biggest hits, "Like No Other" and "Hey Funky People." He's remixed a range of artists (BT, Meat Katie, Quivver, Filter) and has mixing residencies at his own Friction as well as Renaissance. The mix-album wrap-up Rennie Pilgrem Presents TCR 50 appeared in 2001. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide (from mp3.com)
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