Lee Burridge

Lee Burridge
Burridge at a performance at Pacha, NYC
Background information
Born	November 1968 (age 48) Eype, Dorset, England
Genres	Electronic Dance Music Acid House Minimal Techno Tech house Breakbeat Electronica
Occupation(s)	Disc jockey record producer Label Owner
Instruments	Turntables
Years active	1984–present
Labels	Global Underground
Associated acts	Tyrant
Website	www.LeeBurridge.com

Lee Burridge is a DJ, producer, and record label owner who helped launch the underground club scene in Hong Kong during the early 1990s, and today plays at nightclubs across the world.

Renowned for his DJ sets that mix varieties of electronic dance music into the early hours of the morning, as well as for his antics behind the turntables in the DJ booth, Burridge was a member of England's Tyrant Soundsystem (along with DJs Craig Richards, ATTICA (Graham Duncan) and Sasha) and has mixed albums for labels such as Global Underground, Hooj Choons and Balance.

Lee Burridge's DJ career began in the tiny tourist village of Eype in the county of Dorset on 26 December 1984, when he played for the first time at The New Inn, a bar owned and run by his parents.

With the help of his father, shortly thereafter Burridge started his own mobile DJ operation, "Cutz" and spent the next few years travelling the surrounding countryside playing weddings, birthday parties and even the occasional funeral (after party, not burial).

Working as a mobile DJ led to an opportunity at a local holiday resort. Soon after, Burridge began performing every weekend at the local town's nightclub where he played mostly chart music while also entertaining the crowd with his antics on the microphone.

Burridge's first true big break came when he landed a residency at an award-winning club called The Palace in Somerset, where he played weekly and was introduced to the art of mixing records by one of the club's other resident DJs, Wayne Rideout. It was also at The Palace during the summer of 1987 that a group of visitors turned Burridge on to London's emerging acid house sound which would shape his career from that point on.