Preston, United Kingdom
Born to Liverpudlian parents living away from home in deepest darkest Dunstable, Chris said hello to the big bright world after the long hot summer of '76 ...by the age of 6 months, his dads big white headphones had already taken up residence on young Mr Hunters head... ...just before his first birthday, Chris and family moved back up north... ...by 2 years old, Chris had realized it was possible to put two records together to create a 'blend' or 'mix'. By posting them both into the top of a convector heater, he noticed he could create a new product that would flow out of the bottom... much to his fathers dismay... By the time he started school, he had got a sense of rhythm and had taken up playing the triangle, and later progressed to the wooden block, then the recorder, then the violin, the piano / keyboard and finally the guitar.... ... in '83 he watched a young Greg Wilson on the channel 4 show "The Tube" demonstrate how to phase and re work a 12" record with the aid of a REVOX ree