Cool Breeze

Cool Breeze is Charlie Lexton. He spent his formative years listening to punk, funk, reggae, and hip-hop, and in his teens his first band, Down By Law, performed with Big Audio Dynamite. Studying in Bristol from 1986, he began DJing in a burgeoning Bristol scene. In 1990, Charlie recorded under the name Cool Breeze, debuting on a fledgling Hooj Toons with the track A Cool Breeze, a big tune at that year's Notting Hill Carnival. In 1991, under the guise of Cool 2, Charlie recorded Kinda Groovy, an international dance hit, reaching No. 4 in the Gallup UK Dance Chart, selling 20,000 copies, prompting Arthur Baker to cover the track in the US.

In 1992, Charlie produced the first two Dorado releases: Monkey Business' Ain't No Fun and also D*Note's critically acclaimed Scheme of Things. Charlie also co-produced the first album on Dorado, D*Note's highly respected 1993 debut, Babel. With the release of Dorado's A Compilation 2, Charlie again recorded under the Cool Breeze moniker with the track Travelogue. Around the same time, he also remixed Run DMC's Down with the King for Profile Records. Busy studying, Charlie's next release was Tik Tok a track on A Compilation 3: File Under Dorado. He also worked on the beats of Revolution Per Minute's debut, Food Of My DeRhythm, on Mo' Wax.

In 1994, Charlie co-produced D*Note's second, drum'n'bass-influenced album, Criminal Justice, and began work on the Cool Breeze album Assimilation.