Freq Nasty live Remixer Remix @ Maniac Love, Tokyo

New Zealand ex-pat Darin McFayden recently released an incredible album on Brighton's Skint Records - the second of his career. It impacts right into the rubble of dance music where genre distinctions are collapsing, monopolies toppling and orthodoxies disintegrating on an hourly basis. Freq Nasty is the walking paradox that proves the death of dance music is the best thing that ever happened to it.

"Bring Me The Head Of Freq Nasty" was created by Darin during a long hibernation in his Brixton studio with a few samplers, a powerful laptop and a big imagination. He ignored radio, record shops and raves for eight months. Darin's album was produced according to one other principle: The Fuck-It Factor. As Darin says, 'That's what I introduced to the album. Thinking "Fuck it, I'm gonna make what I make", and not trying to make it fit into a scene. That's when a genre is dead.'

What resulted was an album that reflected the genetic stew of urban music today: bashment, breaks, hiphop, drum & bass, and garage. It is a beacon leading the way into virgin territory, music terrain no-one has named yet. The question is not what we call it - but can you feel it? The nasty frequencies speak for themselves.

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