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My Favourite The Return Of


Robot AT SUPERNATURE


FreQ Nasty Bass music pioneer comes boomin back atcha


Luciano CADENZA COMES TO LEEDS


Fashion MERRILL BOOTS


Max Cooper MINIMAL TEMPLE


ONE of the most recognizable fi gures in bass music, Darin McFadyen – aka FreQ Nasty – has been out of the spotlight in Europe and the UK for a while now. It transpires that the nomadic DJ/ producer – born in Fiji, brought up in New Zealand, moved to the UK in the early ‘90s but would always, sensibly, spend winters Down Under – moved to Los Angeles a few years ago and has recently taken some time out to study. He carried on DJing during this time to pay the bills, he tells DJmag.com, but now he’s back in a big way with a wicked new drumstep/crunk-step EP, a new website and even more of a positive mental attitude than ever.


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Richardson PODCAST


And Finally SKRILLEX AUTO- DESTRUCTS


Darin started out in a beats outfi t called Native Bass in the early ‘90s, releasing early material on the fl edgling Botchit & Scarper label. After playing drum & bass in the mid-‘90s he reinvented himself as breakbeat DJ/producer FreQ Nasty to release envelope-pushing cuts on Botchit such as ‘Freqazoid’ and ‘Boomin Back Atcha’. He then signed to Skint, the home of Fatboy Slim, for the ‘Bring Me The Head Of FreQ Nasty’ album, expanding his musical palette and moving Stateside in the mid-noughties.


DJmag.com caught up with the FreQ to hear about his latest excursions in bass…


We haven’t heard from you in the UK for quite a while - where have you been? “Six years ago I looked out of the steamed-up panes of my lounge room windows, the central heating cranking like a vintage motorbike wheezing up Shooters Hill, cross-eyed with cold and fast disappearing into the post-New Year’s Eve realization that I wouldn’t be wearing anything lighter than a trenchcoat for another fi ve months. And outdoors it would be even worse. “Driven by desperation and acute Vitamin D defi ciency, I dialled up Craigslist and struck a deal with a stranger to sleep in


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