Freddy Fresh

Freddy Fresh has become the energetic and prolific American underground dance artists, having released greater than a 100 records on twelve different labels in under half a 10 years. Blessed and bred in NY, Fresh’s name is normally more often from the Minneapolis picture, to which he relocated in the past due ’80s after kick-starting a interest for hip-hop and home music production. Fresh new produced his longest-running record label, Analog Recordings, in Minneapolis, and his label empire provides since grown to add a bunch of sublabels (initial Butterbeat and EMF, and Outlet and Boriqua), in addition to Analog’s U.K. arm. And a developing stateside audience, Refreshing is also mostly of the modern non-Detroit techno/electro music artists to truly have a solid European pursuing, and his information for Experimental, Harthouse, and Martin “Biochip C” Damm’s Anodyne label possess strengthened his worldwide existence. Although Freddy’s launch history offers included tracks in only about every design from hip-hop and home to techno and trance, his origins and most regularly pursued affectation place in electro; his information thrive on humming modular analog sounds and resolutely filthy production techniques, producing a specific, instantly recognizable make of cool, minimal, relatively experimental dance music. Although Refreshing was raised a gothic rock and roll/new influx junkie, a vacation towards the “boogie down” Bronx along with his sweetheart (later on his wife) in 1984 released him towards the flourishing N.Con.C. hip-hop picture. Instantly smitten, Refreshing started collecting DJ tapes (Shep Pettibone, Jeff Mills, Frankie Bone fragments, anything he could easily get his practical) and, needless to say, records — from Jonzun Staff and Newcleus to Water Water and Cerrone, Costs Withers and Kitty Stevens — and his collection provides since expanded to over 10,000 solid (producing his aspect gigs being a DJ a little much easier). Fresh’s initial function behind the planks emerged via Bronx legends Boogie Down Productions, with Fred remixing a monitor for any B-side launch (although all the best obtaining it, and Fred suggests you do not try!). Following that, Freddy started piecing collectively a studio room, collecting lots of the historic analog synths that provide his information their distinct, nearly studio-jam experience (he mixes all his songs live). In 1992, after liberating debut singles on Nu Groove and Silvo Tancredis’ Experimental imprint, New founded his first label, Analog, release a his own monitors. The label and its own offshoots possess since drawn such weighty titles as Thomas Heckman, Tim Taylor, Cari Lekebusch, DJ Slip, the Bassbin Twins, and Biochip C. In 1995, New inked a agreement with mentioned German techno label Harthouse, and his second full-length, Unintentionally Classic, premiered from the label’s U.K. arm in past due 1996, having a Harthouse U.S. reissue pursuing close behind. His third recording, The Last Accurate Family Man, adopted on Harthouse Vision Q. Many singles and a combination album followed before launch of his following full-length, Music for Swingers in 2001. Additionally, New has released information through Wisconsin-based acidity stronghold Drop Bass Network, Labworks, and mentioned German electro label Electrecord.