Fredfades serves up delicate deephouse club music on ‘Caviar (solo: Arthur Kay)’
Fredfades
Serves up delectable deephouse club music on ‘Caviar (solo: Arthur Kay)’
New album ‘Caviar’ due this June via Mutual Intentions
Acclaimed Oslo based DJ, producer and musician, Fred Fades is pleased to announce a brand new track with the arrival of ‘Caviar (solo: Arthur Kay)’, lifted from the upcoming album ‘Caviar’ due this summer through cult Norwegian label Mutual Intentions.
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A fascinating and exhilarating blend of cross genre club sounds, with a sly nod towards deep-house and soul, ‘Caviar (solo: Arthur Kay)’ charts the nordic beat maker’s musical evolution, sounding fresh, fearless and ambitious. Fredfades says: “This was the first track I made out of the ones who made it to the album, and also the one that kind of made me want to start a new release. I just hammered out some chords dragging a jack cable from the Fender Rhodes straight into the MPC 2000 and used the internal effects for processing the sounds. It sounded magic. When The groove sections was ready I invited my friend Arthur Kay to bless it with a crazy DX7 solo.”
Fredfades is finally ready with his second album as a solo artist. The producer and DJ and has remained active as a musician ever since his debut single in 2008. Since he released his debut solo album ‘Warmth’ six years ago he’s been diving into a bunch of different genres and crossing musical landscapes such as ambient, hip-hop and house, which has led to releases and productions across labels like his own Mutual Intentions imprint, as well as bigger labels like Stones Throw, Fresh Selects and Jakarta Records. This sonic voyage has resulted in ‘Caviar’ – an album that tells the story of a producer who’s ready to let go of his youthful love and indulge himself to electronic music.
Fredfades name is more often seen on foreign club posters than back home in Norway. This has colored the musical expression of the Oslo-born multi-artist, and on ‘Caviar’ he is gathering inspiration from every corner of the world where he has traveled. You can clearly hear the inspirations from the sounds of Rome, Manchester, South-Africa, Detroit, New York, Berlin, Paris and the Balearic ocean, which are all well represented throughout the album’s eight tracks. If you close your eyes and put your ears close to the speakers you will hear loons, running water, African percussion instruments, roaring saxophones, bit-crushed samples, moaning women, TB 303’s, bottom-heavy basslines and recordings of whales communicating at the bottom of the ocean. Everything seamlessly put together for Fredfades’ own sonic world view. The album features a bunch of talented friends of Fred, such as producer and DJ Telephones or vocalists MoRuf and Kristian Hamilton.
Despite being known as more of a progressive and edgy DJ that hunts down a lot of indie and private press electronic music, Fredfades has cultivated a more elegant and controversial output in his own music. His progressions often consist of dwelling jazz chords from electric pianos or mellow sub-filtered synth patches that creates space where he can unleash rowdy basslines, rhythm sections and leads just as confident and captivating as the man himself. On the jazzy ‘Tenerife 1994’ you can hear a tribute to one of Fred’s greatest heroes in music: Pharoah Sanders, while on ‘My Heart Is On The Edge’ and ‘Summer of Love’ the energy and euphoria is boiling over and directs your mind towards the summer raves which Fredfades is known to throw down in Oslo.
On the LP covers backside Fredfades is posing with a Korg Wavestation in front of the block where he grew up in the suburbs outside Oslo, while the front cover is showing an airbrushed illustration of Caviar from sturgeon – ‘From block to Beluga’. The black vinyl contains magic grooves created by an electronic musical convertite, with the power to transport the listener from a perpetual winter to the 90s warm dance floors and the ‘Second Summer of Love’.
Tracklist:
A1 Caviar (feat. Arthur Kay)
A2 My Heart Is On The Edge (feat. Kristina Hamilton)
A3 Winner (Telephones Mix) (feat. Telephones)
A4 Tenerife 1994
B1 Intuition (feat. MoRuf)
B2 Summer Of Love B3 Well, Well, Well
B4 My Heart Is On The Edge (Falconry Data Mix)
‘Caviar (solo: Arthur Kay)’ / 2 June
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Fredfades have over the last few years carved out a distinctive sound as a producer. An old soul in a precocious talent, Fredfades projects extend from soulful Hip Hop to breezy House music or even ambient with albums and collaborations that has brought his sounds to an international audience through Stones Throw, TIDAL, Boiler Room, Jakarta Records and his own Mutual Intentions records.