T-Empo

b. Tim Lennox, c.1966, Birmingham, Western Midlands, Britain. Lennox is among the main proponents of what continues to be fetchingly referred to as ‘ ladies handbag home’. Like many before him, he offers stepped out from behind the decks to change from becoming DJ to maker. He previously been DJing for a decade, starting in a homosexual club known as Heroes, in Manchester, before assisting setup the notorious Flesh occasions on the Haçienda in 1991, buying Paradise Factory quickly afterwards. His initial recorded effort, having a typically dazzling vocal from Sharon D. Clark and help from manufacturer Aron Friedman and Damon Rochefort (of Nomad popularity), was a cover of Cuba Gooding’s ‘Pleasure’, released beneath the name Serious Rope. Another cover, this time around of Barbara Mason’s ‘Another Guy’, also suffered critical acceptance. This tale of the Brooklyn housewife dumped by her guy for another fan, also male, got the camp, heightened feeling of dilemma intrinsic towards the bag house style. This is released as Timid One, and Lennox switched towards the T-Empo name to be able to engender a far more structured method of making music. Therefore his band progressed, offering Adam Clough, program vocalist Loretta and engineer Simon Bradshaw. Following the large achievement of ‘Another Guy’ many record companies had been fighting to indication Lennox, and he ultimately chosen ffrr Records, predicated on their great record with homosexual/hi-NRG/house acts. Nevertheless, a third discharge, ‘Saturday Night Weekend Morning’, the first ever to utilize the pseudonym T-Empo, showed up jointly with the unique homosexual record label FROM Vinyl, which Lennox keeps a movie director’s seat. His remixing abilities also increased in recognition, and, again beneath the name T-Empo, included the newest Heavies (‘Desire On Dreamer’), RuPaul (‘Home Of Like’), Elegance Jones (‘Slave TOWARDS THE Tempo’), Joe Roberts (‘Enthusiast’) and K Klass (‘Tempo IS REALLY A Secret’). The Joe Roberts blend was a specific triumph, when ffrr advertised it to a-side position over a edition from Lennox’s long-time hero, David Morales.