One of the earliest UK dance acts to gain chart and international success with their classic Rhythm Is A Mystery remix, K-Klass, as Haçienda regulars throughout the late Eighties and early Nineties, actually came to meet on the fabled FAC51 dancefloor. With Paul Roberts and Russ Morgan both hailing from Chester and Andy Williams and Carl Thomas, both parties had become regulars at the club before even meeting up.

Signing to Eastern Bloc’s Creed Records, the band first released the Wildlife EP, a mixture of elemental acid grooves which came to prominence for its cheeky steal of the then “Wildlife On One” theme, tying into the fashion for early acid house tune to ape tv themes. Then the original Rhythm Is A Mystery ep saw a similarly dark and Detroit style before the piano’d up remix took first the Haçienda’s dancefloor apart and then those across the rest of the world, as released by Mike Pickering’s Deconstruction.

Managed by Cream’s James Barton, even before Cream existed, K-Klass were also intimately involved in the early days of this North West clubbing behemoth, and as the band's Paul Roberts reveals below, he only just escaped becoming a director of Cream in the early days, having to concentrate on the then success of K-Klass. Yet also continuing to play regularly at The Haçienda, Paul also points out that of all the bands to play the club, when you take in PAs and live acts, K-Klass only come second to Happy Mondays in the number of gigs.

More recent output from K-Klass has seen their remixes of Underworld “Two Months Off” and their own 93 smash “Let Me Show You” and with a host of DJing gigs across the UK and abroad, they are also set to be releasing new material on their Muzik K label in the New Year.