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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians -->

| name = Cut La Roc

| image = Cutlaroc.jpg

| caption = Cut La Roc in 2007

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| birth_namealias = Lee Potter

| alias birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df= yes|1972|1|11}}

| birth_dateorigin = {{Birth[[Brighton]], date and age|df=yes|1972|1|4}}England

| origin instrument = [[BrightonTurntablism|Turntables]], Englandpercussion, programming

'''Lee Potter''' (born 411th January 1972), known by his stage name '''Cut La Roc''', is a British electronic musician, considered as a pioneer of [[big beat]], a genre fusing elements of [[Hip hop music|hip hop]], [[House music|house]] and [[Rock music|rock]].

Potter grew up in [[Brighton]], United KingdomEngland, and iswas signed to the British record label, Rocstar Recordings.

He started creating and producing music when [[acid house]] came on at the end of the eighties. In an interview he described the cause of his "infection" for electronic music and DJ-ingDJing: "I'd never really liked house music up until then, but this was kind of different, because it had the hip-hop element through the breakbeats, it made total sense to me".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj-profile.aspx?id=53|title=RA: DJ. Cut La Roc Biography & Discography|date=1 June 2007|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070601021444/http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj-profile.aspx?id=53|accessdate=10 February 2021|archive-date=1 ResidentJune Advisor2007}}</ref>

In 1998, he released "Post Punk Progression" which ''[[NME]]'' lauded as "what the Beatles would have sounded like if they'd invented jungle".{{Citation needed|date=March 2014}}

His DJ sets combinefeature classicold &school currenthip hop and G-funk to modern hip hop musicand trap. In 1995, Cut La Roc appeared on BBC One's ''[[Top of the Pops]]'' as the late electronic musician [[Wildchild (musicianproducer)|Wildchild]] on the original version of "Renegade Master'", before [[Fatboy Slim]] remixed and revived the song in 1998. In 2001, he produced along with [[Snow Patrol]]'s [[Gary Lightbody]], the songs ''"Fallen''" and ''"Mishka''". As well as [[Gary Lightbody]] co-producing both of the songs, he also provided the vocals to them. Cut La Roc held a four-year residency at the famous ''Big Beat Boutique'' and performed alongside fellow big beat musicians [[Fatboy Slim]] and [[Armand Van Helden]].

==NotesReferences==

*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070601021444/http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj-profile.aspx?id=53 Cut La Roc's profile on Resident Advisor]

[[Category:English singer-male songwriters]]

[[Category:ClubBritish club DJs]]

[[Category:RemixersBritish remixers]]

[[Category:BritishEnglish house musicians]]