Rennie Pilgrem, son of a jazz trumpeter, cut his teeth in bands in Kent playing keyboards and tenor saxophone.
In London he was introduced to Rave music by DJ Ellis Dee. Together they were joined by Richie T and Nick ‘Newton’ Scott in hardcore rave outfit Rhythm Section. Rhythm Section released a slew of records in the early ‘90s culminating in the ‘Coming On Strong EP’ featuring lead track ‘Feel The Rhythm. It went on to sell over 25,000 copies on vinyl.

When rave died, Rennie started his own label around 1993. He also started djing internationally after one of his first releases ‘A Place Called Acid’ became an underground hit. A version of this track became the the theme tune to the film ‘Football Factory’
TCR (Thursday Club Recordings) went on to release over 100 records and became arguably the most important label of its genre (breakbeat) in the world. As well as releasing several albums and many 12” singles, Rennie became an award-winning remixer for scores of artists. He also started the seminal club night FRICTION with Adam Freeland, Tayo Papoola and Ian Williams. It coined the genre ‘New School Breaks’ (Nu Skool Breaks). Based in London at Bar Rhumba, Friction moved to The End and then to super-club Fabric. Rennie’s live band The TCR Allstars featuring M.C. Chickaboo, WIlliam South, Richard Thair (Red Snapper) and Chris Carter played at many festivals in the UK and Europe and managed to make the top 100 best ever performances at Glastonbury.

Rennie largely stopped making music about 10 years ago to concentrate on Art. He continued to dj. Towards the end of 2019 he started making music again, including a full length album ‘Movers & Shakers’.
The vinyl and CD albums available here are from TCR stock and although some of the sleeves might not be perfect, almost all of the records are unplayed.