Maurice Fulton

Before thousands of indie rockers ordained him as an acceptable face of dance music, Maurice Fulton cut his teeth as a hip-hop DJ, danced somewhere in the background of a scene in John Waters' Hairspray, programmed drums and played keyboards on aboveground house hits by Crystal Waters and Ultra Naté, and started a stockpile of production pseudonyms -- including Boof, Eddie & the Eggs, Sticky People, and Syclops -- that likely numbers north of 20. His best-known work will forever remain within Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman," but the early 2000s saw him achieve a different kind o...