For this new Moon Tapes, we welcome Canadian DJ & producer, Fred Everything. A key player in the world of House Music for two decades and more than 200 titles to his credit, Fred Everything is actively involved in shaping clubbing and house music made in Canada. Born in Hull and raised in Quebec City, Fred began playing in raves and clubs, bringing his famous Roland 909 and 101 across all over Canada.

 At the time, it was then known simply as "Everything", but soon it would be "Fred Everything" surrounding and collaborating closely with many artists such as Mood 2 Swing, Dennis Ferrer, Derrick Carter, Kings of Tomorrow, Robert Owens and Roy Davis or artists like, Jazzanova, and the late Curtis Mayfield.

Beginning to make a good place internationally, he will work closely with labels such as 20.20Vision, Defected, Local Talk, Tsuba, Drumpoet Community and Fabric, not to mention his own label "Lazy Days Recordings". Soon artists like Trentemoller, Shur-I-Kan, Ian Pooley, Atjazz, Tortured Soul, Crazy P or Greg Wilson join him so that to date more than fifty references are stamped Lazy Days Recordings.

He enters the very closed circle of artists who will perform on all continents playing in the most influential clubs and festivals, London (Fabric), WMC in Miami, Paris (Showcase), Milan (Take It Lazy) , Glasgow (Subclub), Coachella (USA), Pik Nic Electronik, Igloofest, or references like the Francofolies of La Rochelle. Today Fred joined Moon Rise and we were impatient to be able to make you listen to this next Moon Tapes # 24, give it up for the pride of Quebec, Canada Fred Everything.

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Moon Tapes _ #24 Fred Everything

Paris-born, Tokyo-raised, Berlin-based DJ, music producer, and sound designer. Calling Tokyo home from the age of four, Alex grew up amid the sounds and spectacle of the world’s largest city— playing baseball, practicing Kendō (Japanese swordsmanship), and honing an ear for eclectic soundscapes in Shibuya’s record stores and at famed underground clubs like the Bank, Another World, and Gold.

Alex returned to his birthplace of Paris in the early 1990s, and formed the unit “A Deep Groove” with DJ Deep and DJ Gregory in 1993. Their now-legendary lunchtime radio show on Radio FG 98.2fm was one of the first to spread the “real underground dance music” sound from the US and put a spotlight on early French deep house artists like
St. Germain and Shazz.

Arriving back in Japan in 1995, Alex emerged as the go-to contact for European labels, DJs, and artists seeking a presence in Japan. He worked with Laurent Garnier’s F Communications, London’s Mr. Bongo and its label Disorient, France’s Yellow Productions and its Bossa Tres Jazz project “When East Meets West” (Alex coordinated the Japan side), and recorded mixed CDs for Tokyo’s P-Vine, Flavour of
Sound, and Flower Records. Alex surfaced as one of the strongest crossover DJs in Japan in the late 1990s, holding a residency at club Yellow in Tokyo and touring all over Asia and the world. “Alex from Tokyo” was born.

Alex has been producing original music as Tokyo Black Star with sound engineer Isao Kumano (Kenichi Takagi joined as an official member in 2015) since the late 1990s. Tokyo Black Star’s debut release, a remix of “For You” by Big Moses (feat. Ja’nel), came out on Kerri Chandler’s label Basemental in 2000. Tokyo Black Star’s “Psyche Dance” EP became the very first release of Berlin label Innervisions in 2005
(Innervisions released four other Tokyo Black Star EPs as well as their debut album “Black Ships” in April 2009). The group has handed down remixes for such legendary artists as Tony Allen, Carl Craig, Phenomenal Handclap Band, Kuniyuki, and Bing Ji Ling, and their track “Kagura” was selected for the Xbox 360 game “Crackdown.”
 
By the early 2000s, Alex from Tokyo was in international demand and eager for new inspirations and challenges. Drawn by New York City—spiritual home of dance and club music—and moved by special encounters with Larry Levan, Francois Kevorkian,
David Mancuso, and Daniel Wang, Alex decided to make the Big Apple his home in 2005. He would spend the next decade there, exploring his musical roots and shaking up the NYC scene by adding his own fresh and eclectic touch in clubs like Output, Le Bain, and Nublu and through curations like the UK label Claremont 56’s CD series
“Originals Volume Ten, compiled by Alex from Tokyo” (2013).
Keen to share their sonic adventures with the world, Alex and Kumano of Tokyo Black Star launched phonon (phonon-inc.com) in 2010, crafting exceptional audio equipment for sound aficionados.
Alex relocated to Berlin—electronic music mecca—in 2017 to start a new chapter in his music life. 

He still travels regularly to Japan, Asia, and beyond to soak up the sounds and share his “happy funky positive” soundscapes. Alex continues a nineteen-year residency at the Sunday afternoon party “Gallery” at CAY in Aoyama, Tokyo, alongside
DJ Nori, Kenji Hasegawa, and Fukuba. From September 2017, Alex from Tokyo kicks off a new residency at The Observatory in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The world famous label will be digitally and physically relaunched from Berlin beginning in fall 2017. 

Be on the lookout for new original music and collaborations by Alex, as
well as a Tokyo Black Star live project, in 2018.

https://soundcloud.com/alexfromtokyo
https://www.facebook.com/Alex-From-Tokyo-440236945999739/

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