Legendary DJ, producer and journalist Andrew Weatherall passed away in London on Feb. 17. Fondly known as The Chairman and the Guv’nor, he was 56 years old. Weatherall was a cornerstone member of the 80’s UK acid house scene. His regular fixture with Sean Johnston under the name of A Love From Outer Space was infamous for its simple recipe for a thumping night of minimal music. The tempo of the tracks never exceeds 122bpm, so as to create “an oasis of slowness in a world of increasing velocity.”

As a resident of Danny Rampling’s Shoom parties, he was best known for heralding electronic music in the UK through producing and remixing the genre-flipping masterpiece from Primal Scream called Screamdelica, 1991.

Weatherall didn’t just produce beats, he gave new life to artists all around him. Starting off as a music journalist under the pseudonym Audrey Witherspoon, he built credibility to legitimize his claim in the industry. Through these multifaceted artistic endeavors, he revolutionized the sounds of Primal Scream, turning them from “a middling indie act whose career had given every appearance of being in its terminal phase, into an award-winning, multi-million selling band suddenly at the cutting edge, the epitome of the fruitful interface between rock music and the post-acid house dance scene.”

A true cultural icon, he did not restrict himself to the confines of electronic music. His remix of New Order’s World in Motion, 1990, really captures the essence of an artist who knew the rules he had to break.

In the words of Optimo’s JD Twitch, Weatherall was “a lifelong maverick, the godfather of non-conformity, massively and no doubt forever influential, our comrade in arms.” The lesson he leaves to the growingly single-faceted electronic dance music industry: “He did it his way, never forgetting the power and value of music, never succumbing to the bullshit.” Here’s his essential mix with one groove and zero bullshit. RIP Weatherall.