Terry Lee Brown Jr.

Terry Lee Brown Jr. is Norman Feller, a DJ and producer from Darmstadt, Germany, and one of the names that defined 1990s tech house. Feller started out DJing hard trance and rave at the end of the '80s and produced under names like Phasis, Watchman and Norman. The Terry Lee Brown Jr. name started in 1995, after Alexander Hendorf asked him to remix Soundcraft's "The Movement, The Message" for the young Plastic City label. He has said he wanted to make house, but his techno habits kept bleeding in, and the result was tech house.

His debut album, Brother For Real, came out in 1996 and took in jungle, trance and easy listening along the way. Muzik picked it as one of the ten best albums of the year, and Marshall Jefferson, reviewing it in Raveline in November 1996, wrote simply: "He is God." Chocolate Chords followed in 1997, and then From Dub Til Dawn, which pushed bass-heavy house grooves toward dub and two-step. The Terry's Cafe mix CDs showed the DJ side, and remixes for Gabrielle, Nalin & Kane and Paul van Dyk made his name as a remixer. With his longtime friend Frank Cochois, he also ran the Driftwood and Tonika labels and recorded as Da Kine and Fonka Delix.

On Red Melon he appears twice as a remixer. For Those Norwegians' Toons he delivered a remix and a shorter Terry's Dub, both pulling the playful original into hypnotic dub-house. For Harlem Zip Code's Anglepoise, featuring Corrina Joseph, his remix leans on dub-techno stabs and delayed vocal chops for the booth. Dano remixed him in turn around 2000, one of the remixes that carried the label's sound outside California.