Cajmere
b. Curtis A. Brown, Chicago, USA. The house music artist Cajmere, with vocalist Dajae (real name Karen), first broke through in 1993 with the club hits Brighter Days and the ragtime-themed U Got Me Up. Cajmere packed in his degree course to follow his musical ambition, and started hanging around with local house music producers and soon cut his first tracks, including The Percolator. Influenced by the UK's A Guy Called Gerald as much as by Chicago house music, he settled on a successful combination of diva-style vocals and ‘breakdowns’. Before working with Dajae, he was best known for his collaboration with Lidell Townsell on Get With You, plus the UNDERGROUND GOODIES EP for Clubhouse. He also remixed Feel It for Italians Workin' Happily. He runs the Cajual record label, and its offshoot Relief, on which he is aiming to develop new talent. He has already released an album by Dajae and 12-inch singless such as Preacherman, which owed an obvious debt to one of his idols, Lil' Louis.