John Creamer needs no lengthy preamble for anyone who came of age on the New York underground in the 1990s. His name is bound up with a particular era of house music that still resonates in how the genre sounds today, an era when New York was producing some of the most sophisticated, vocally driven club music anywhere in the world, and Creamer was at the centre of it.
He arrived in that scene not as an outsider looking in but as someone embedded in it from the ground up. His early years at Eightball Records, first on the shop floor and eventually heading up A&R, gave him an education in music that no formal training could…
