Richard West (born 2 January 1966, London) is a British DJ, musician, actor and
rapper, who has used the monikers
Mr. C,
Sycophant Slags and
Indigo Kidz. He is best known as the frontman for
The Shamen during their most commercially successful era. West is also a house music DJ and was co-owner/co-founder of London's
The End nightclub with Layo from
Layo and Bushwacka!. He is considered a leading proponent of
tech house, a fusion of
house and
techno music and has been credited with coming up with the genre. In 1995 his DJing talents came to the attention of UK rave promoter/record company
Fantazia who asked him to mix their new album
Fantazia DJ Collection 3 – Back to the Old Skool. He also mixed CDs
Psycotrance vol 1,
X-Mix 6 on Studio K7,
Sunterrain 100% Unreleased on his End recordings imprint and most recently
Superfreq Express on his Superfreq label.