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FREDDI
IF IT MOVES, IT WORKS WHERE THE GROOVE LIVES
“If I had to point to a moment, I was at the Armada studios, maybe 30 minutes before Kara Okay came in for a session. I’d started something the evening before and that morning I found exactly the percussion and toms I was hearing in my head, before we even had any melodics down. When he walked in and heard it, we both knew immediately that was it. That became Say My Name.”
That moment did not create the shift, but it made it visible in a way that could not be ignored. Rhythm had already begun to move to the center of the process, no longer supporting the track but defining its direction from the outset. What changed was the speed of recognition, the clarity with which instinct began to resolve decisions before they could be overworked. From that point on, the work leaned more heavily on what felt immediate, rather than what could be explained.
The change is easier to feel than to describe, but it carries through everything that followed. What once moved through hesitation now arrives faster, more di- rectly, without the same internal negotiation between ideas. There is less distan- ce between instinct and execution, less need to justify a direction before com- mitting to it. What remains is a sound grounded in the body before it reaches language, shaped less by structure and more by movement itself.
“I started out writing and relea- sing classical piano pieces, where everything revolves around melodics and harmonies. When I got into elec- tronic music, largely through Nils Fra- hm, I genuinely disliked programming drums. Now, the percussion and bass groove is often one of the first things I aim to nail.”
Time spent inside clubs accelerated that recalibration, forcing a different relationship with energy and struc- ture. Early productions leaned toward dramatic arcs, shaped by the logic of composition rather than the logic of a
dancefloor. Over time, that approach began to feel disconnected from what actually worked in a room. The focus shifted toward something more conti- nuous, where momentum holds rather than peaks.
“I had basically no DJ experience when I started producing house, and in my early work everything built toward the break. But after a year and a half of actually playing on actual dancefloors, I realized the groove can also define the moment. Not always the drop, not the breakdown. The pocket, where the groove lives.”
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AUTOR SERGIO NIÑO PHOTORAPHY TESSAS CHOLING
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