Freq Nasty

FreQ Nasty isn't one to show off, so we'd better fill you in.

This is a man who's on the up, and 2002 is going to be the year of the FreQ. Just take his recent
remix history as a yardstick: Fatboy Slim, Gorillaz, Mystical plus KRS-One. There's an international label scrum for his forthcoming mix album project. His in-demand DJing skills, honed in the UK
and abroad at venues like Twilo and Johnny Depp's Viper Rooms, mean he's been offered Fabric, The End and Boutique residencies. His bass-heavy new single "Fresh" drops next year on Skint, before an album later in 2K2.  After a successful residency on Ministry of Sound's FM trial, he'll probably play tracks on a radio show somewhere near you - and soon.

If he's learnt one thing since he moved to London in the early '90s from New Zealand , it's how to party. Hard. Keeping the glorious spirit alive has become a mission for FreQ (real name Darin McFadyen). He DJs all over the globe from headlining on top of Kuala Lumpur airport in Malaysia,  the main room on Saturday night of Australia 's Home, the Burning Man Festival: 25,000 ravers in the Nevada desert) to the main room of Fabric on a rammed Friday night. Big parties, big systems and big, big tunes are what it's all about. He's the master of making your biggest of nights out just that little bit bigger. This is not an environment anyone should place him in. He'll love it.

To keep the spirit alive, FreQ has a plan. Simply plugging his laptop in, and this future nomad is off. If it's not getting inspired in America it's soaking the up the vibes in Australia. Yup the six months before FreQ's phat album are gonna be fun. Just a few choice calls to certain MC hip hop heavyweights, hooking up with ruff ragga rudegirls and the LP will be locked down.

In the meantime heŒs cracking on with the third single for Brighton's Skint. "Fresh" is low down and dirty: straddling literally every sub-genre of dance music - imagine hip hop perverted by DJ Zinc and his amazing bassline torture machine, if you will. "I want people to say 'Fuckitt I don't know what this is but I like it. I want to move the feet before the mind," says FreQ. It's backed by "One More Time," the sound of 3am at the Boutique at Fabric with the sub-bass bins turned to 11. It's bigger breaks with an old school "French Kiss" feel - minus the shagging.

Not bad for a man who only made his first FreQ tune in 1997. But then "Boomin' Back Atcha" was no ordinary breaks tune, just as MJ Cole was no ordinary studio engineer. Hanging with Blim and Jim now of Raw Deal, FreQ certainly has that right-time-right-place knack. But then, as they say,
these are the breaks. It's during moments like these that you realise FreQ's on to something.
There he is, a bedredded '50s superhero dropping breakbeats from his Armageddon arsenal to an entire (experi)mental community, and you just know he's bigger than yer average producer stroke DJ stroke radio presenter (in that order).

Who you calling a FreQ?

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