Bring Me the Head of Freq Nasty

Freq Nasty | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 6, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Skint Records UK
• ASIN: B00012QKTM
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,035,420 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Come Let Me Know

2. Fresh

3. Boomba Clatt

4. Amped

5. Brooklyn to Brixton

6. Sil Num Tao

7. Clit Licka

8. Punkadelic

9. Goose

10. 2 Females

11. La Machina Latina

12. Mad Situation

Editorial Reviews

It’s the Freq-in’ weekend, baby we’re about to have us some fun. New Zealand ex-pat Darin Mcfadyen - Freq Nasty to anyone who’s felt the width of his basslines on dancefloors around the world - knows well that the shifting patterns of culture mean fun by the ton in 2004.

Bring Me The Head of Freq Nasty, is his first album for Brighton’s Skint Records and the second of his career. For the last twelve years, he’s been tinkering with the back end of rave culture and carving aural geometry out of uncut basslines and diamond-tipped breakbeats. In 1991 he arrived in Britain with a one-way ticket and immersed himself into the raging elementalism of the drum & bass scene, and emerged, dazed and enthused, as Freq Nasty.

An alumni of the seminal SOUR and Motiv labels, Freq Nasty rapidly established himself as one of the breakbeat scene’s pioneers, producing instant classic after instant classic with studio partner BLIM. As breakbeat flourished into its own, Freq Nasty’s tunes remained ahead of the pack. His remix of Steve Reich’s ‘Desert Music’ became breakbeat’s own ‘Inner City Life’ or ‘Energy Flash’: emblematic signature tunes of an emerging scene. Since then the likes of Fatboy Slim, Kelis and KRS-One have all felt the benefit of a Freq Nasty re-rub. Bring Me The Head Of Freq Nasty is the result of a long hibernation in his studio. What resulted is about as far from generic clockwork breaks as Brixton is from Brisbane, reflecting the genetic stew of urban music today: bashment, breaks, hip hop, drum & bass and garage.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars THE Freq Nasty sound, October 22, 2007

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I. Nedvalyuk "digifruitella" (dale city, virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Bring Me the Head of Freq Nasty (Audio CD)

I've heard the name Freq Nasty for quite some time, but never really have given the man behind the dreads a try. Freq Nasty is Darin McFayden, a Fiji born DJ that revolutionized bassheavy breaks. But if you want background history, a simple google search for his name will suffice. The one thing I want to mention though...those dreads maaaan...they ROCK. He has the most standout, unique "look" about him. The constant energy and throwing of the hands in the air, the fact that he is white (although FROM Fiji, maybe a mixture) and has the most dreads on a white person I've EVER seen.

Now onto the music, "Bring me the Head of Freq Nasty" was the first album I've heard from him. It was actually the first one I got my hands on. It has actually happened quite recently. Almost a year exact, is for how long I've known about this man and his music. The album is not your average breaks album, it's a mixture of very funky breaks and deep bass, with funky basslines. A few tracks like "Come Let Me Know" and my fav "Boomba Clat" (gotta love that name, look up the words individually :-D) that have the most vocals in them, the latter being very "reggae" sounding, but also quite hilarious in its' sound.

This is a very great album, in the fact that it's energetic. You can listen to it everyday and not get tired of it for quite some time. Freq Nasty also knows how to make his trax fit for the party as most of these can be easily played at a big party that would call for some heavy movement. "Clit Licka" is perhaps one of the coolest things he's done on this album. Aside from the ingenius name, this is also an ingenius tune itself because of how it completely reconstructs a sexual 'scene' musically. Just for that fact alone, you should buy this album! Hehe, but really. I have been listening to this album over the course of one year ever since getting it myself and I can tell you that it never seizes to amaze me in its originality.

Freq Nasty is the kind of DJ that once you are hooked on the sound he creates, you want more of it. You will find yourself nodding your head to the beats per second of the said tune.

Absolutely recommend.

"The Missing Channel" is his newest album which is awaiting release date this year, 2007.

Apart from this, I'd also advise you to look into his live shows, and watch a few videos on YouTube, he knows how to get the crowd going.