Simon Harris

Harris started as a mobile DJ in the Chigwell, Essex area in 1977 and became known for his mixing, in 1979 he joined the roster of DJ’s at Radio Forest Hospital Radio and promoted disco events featuring Capital Radio DJ’s.

In 1981 Harris met Froggy at one of these events and the two then formed a mixing team which resulted in a succession of releases including the 1987 Decade Remix of You to Me Are Everything by The Real Thing which became a top 10 Uk hit.

Froggy and Harris then decided to launch their own label, Music of Life which was initially distributed by StreetSounds.

Then in 1986 Froggy left and Harris took the direction of Music of Life into Hip Hop and the label released many early British Hip Hop tracks by artists including Derek B, The Demon Boyz, Asher D and Daddy Freddy and Einstein but it was the series of Breakbeat albums ‘Beats, Breaks and Scratches ’ which included sampled scratches that were a continued success and were released in territories such as Germany and the USA.

Harris was signed to UK label FFRR by Pete Tong MBE in 1987 with the initial release being 'Bad on the Mic' and remixes for Joyce Sims, Steve "Silk" Hurley, D-Mob Feat.

Simon Harris is a British music producer, DJ, remixer and electronic musician from London predominantly known for his 1988 hit song Bass (How Low Can You Go?) as the founder of the Hip Hop label Music of Life and producer of most of it’s catalogue of songs.

Gary Haisman, Sinitta for Simon Cowell's Fanfare label and then also featured in music production magazines describing the sampling technique included on the 1988 FFRR Records album, 'Bass' and numerous radio mixes including Dave Pearce's 'Fresh start to the week' in 1988 and covered in UK magazine Hip Hop Connection.

Harris's association with sampling evolved from vinyl onto the sampling CD in the 1990s and then more recently to digital releases on the Mastermix DJ label, Plus Soda Music in Greece.

In 1992 Harris produced The Ambassadors of Funk with a UK Top 10 hit.

Bass (How Low Can You Go?) was remixed in 2016 by German production team Milk & Sugar.

Harris has been involved in many remix projects including the songs "Boogie Nights" and "Gangsters of the Groove" for Heatwave, The first ever official Elvis Presley Remix for BMG Rights Management 'Bossa Nova Baby', Grace Jones, Prince (musician)'s only No1 pop hit 'The Most Beautiful Girl in The World' and more recent DJ productions on Traxsource and the ELROW Music release 'This is Serious' with Morrison which was remixed by Dennis Ferrer and featured on the BBC Radio 1 Friday night dance shows.