“The chemistry has to be right,” he urges. He’s producing a track on Skepta’s new album and has been hard at work collaborating with other artists from the UK and abroad. With no new projects announced, you could be forgiven for thinking that Freaker is taking it easy, but that couldn’t be further from the truth. “Everyone’s hypersensitive these days and music is so attainable but also disposable, so people are always looking for new sounds and the grime sound is still new to them.” “In America it’s a new sound,” he explains. “There’s an awareness of UK acts.” He has found that he doesn’t have to adjust his sets for an American audience, and that they seem to appreciate grime as a genre. “I think I’m gonna be coming back and forth because there’s a vibe growing at the moment,” he says. ‘Minger’, released earlier this year on NumbersĪt the time of our conversation, Freaker is in New York, having just played a few shows down America’s West Coast. Next thing I know I just heard it on radio”. “I left a CD there to play during clean-up and DJ JJ (of Rinse FM) took it home and played some tunes for Tempz, who took the CD off him, went to studio and made a tune. “I used to work in Uptown Records in Soho and intern for DJ Cameo,” he tells us. And it was ‘Next Hype’ that really announced Darq E Freaker to the grime audience, although he didn’t actually know much about the song when it was first released. Those swirling organs and keys in the background of ‘Blueberry (Pills And Cocaine)’ by the equally off-kilter Danny Brown? That’s him too. That metallic bass at the start of Tempa T’s club classic, ‘Next Hype’? That’s Darq E Freaker.
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