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    Artist description
    Hot new producer from the U.K. If you love real underground hip hop, He had got them beats you been craving for.
    Music Style
    Pure classics
    Musical Influences
    Dj Premier,Dr Dre,Timaland,Bobby Womack,Bob Marley,Goldie
    Artist History
    FROM AN EARLY AGE FRIKSHUN HAS HAD A LOVE FOR MUSIC. AFTER BEING INTRODUCED TO HIP HOP THROUGH TAPES SENT TO HIM FROM HIS UNCLE IN THE U.S HE WAS INSTANTLY HOOKED. HE BEGAN TRADING TAPES WITH FRIENDS AND OTHER HEADS WITH THE SAME LOVE HE HAD. BY THE AGE OF 14 FRIK BEGAN BUYING TRACK ON VINYL AND PLAYING AT LOCAL PARTY'S AND COMMUNITY CENTER DANCES. PICKING UP PEICES OF EQUIPMENT AS TIME WENT ON HE SOON HAD A LITTLE BEDROOM SET WHERE HE COULD WORK ON HIS FRIST LOVE, DJing! AT 15 FRIKSHUN WAS HOSTING HIS FRIST RADIO SHOW ON ONE OF THE LOCAL PIRATE STATIONS (FRONTLINE 106.3) MIXING THE BEST IN U.S. & U.K. HIP HOP.THIS HELPED PROMOTE HIM ALLOWING THE OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY AT LARGER EVENT's. BY 18 FRIKSHUN HAD GAINED A STRONG FOLLOWING ON THE UNDERGROUND CIRCUIT AND STARTED PROMOTING HIS OWN DANCE's AND PARTY's ALONG SIDE VERIOUS SOUND SYSTEMS. REACHING THE AGE OF 19 FRIKSHUN NATURALLY PROGRESSED INTO PRODUCTION, WHICH STARTED WITH HIM BORROWING BITS OF EQUIPMENT FROM A LOCAL STUDIO. A YEAR LATER, AS HE WAS GETTING MORE SEIRIOUS HE GOT HIMSELF AN MPC2000 AND BEGAN STUDYING THE ART OF BEAT MAKING. AS TIME WENT ON FRIK STARTED PUTTING TRACKS TOGETHER WITH ARTISTS HE LINKED ON HIS JOURNEY THROUGH THE GAME.IN 1999 FRIKSHUN INDEPENDENTLY PUT OUT HIS DEBUT ALBUM "FRIKSHUN PRESENTS..LIVE FRON THE KONSTRUKSHUN SITE" MIXING INSTRUMENTAL BEATS VOCAL TRACKS & TURNTABLEIZUM. AFTER A GOOD RESPONCE FROM THE STREET & THE MEDIA ALIKE FRIKSHUN WENT ON TO LINK WITH SOME OF THE U.K.s TOP ARTISTS.
    Instruments
    MPC 2000
    Location
    Wolverhampton, West midlands - United Kingdom

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