Five Things With Freq Nasty

1.Growing Up

My earliest memories are of my dad playing his Yamaha guitar and singing in the evenings for most of my childhood. My dad was in a band called The Young Ones in Fiji in the ’60s as a young teenager and had to sneak out at night to do gigs and slip in the back door, as he was to young to be in a club.

2.Inspirations

Tom Waits – unrivalled individuality and artistic experimentation and also brilliant fusing of very trad skills (lyrics and songwriting) and left-field mayhem.

3.Your Crew

I work with David Starfire from LA on a project called Dub Kirtan All Stars fusing the chants of the South Asian yogic tradition with beats and bass. I also work with yoga teacher Claire Thompson on our Yoga Of Bass workshops, which explore the parallels between the ecstatic experience of music and dance, and the ecstatic experience of the yogic meditative path.

4.The Music You Make And Play

I play electronic music with a strong emphasis on dub, reggae, dancehall and funk – but it doesn’t normally end up sounding a lot like these genres. Expect multi-genre wibblestep, low-slung funk with a little prancehall thrown in.

5.Music, Right Here, Right Now

The scene right now is amazing – more great music than ever. Will you ever hear more than a small sliver of it? No. LA has an amazing underground to mainstream electronic music scene, from Team Supreme to Skrillex.

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