From Ireland, living in Portugal since 2021. 

DJ / Producer.

Dublin based singer songwriter and vocalist.

Hi, I’m Fred. 
I live in Bundoran on the west coast of Ireland. I am into everything from swimming, longboarding, camping and half a dozen mugs of tea a day. I share my life between county Donegal and Brittany, where I work as a lecturer and a researcher in Rennes University. My research interests mainly focus on surfing in Ireland, Irish sea folklore and Ireland's surf economics. I want to share with you the wealth and distinctiveness of the stories Irish surfers have to tell about the Wild Atlantic waves, and try to locate them within this island nation’s rich national cultural landscape. Heavy wave surfing is a major focus of my work, but not only: any story, from young or old, related to the waves and ocean around Ireland, any personal narrative relating experiences of surfing here, hunting, discovering and riding new waves, is a story worth telling and sharing.

And that is what got me started on a journey collecting tales and legends from surfers along the west coast of Ireland.
In my search of eadaíls – of the bounties of the sea, I have come across many a tale telling of watery treasures: stories of fishermen, explorers and sailors of the day of yore, and tales of wave hunters, surfers, creatures from both the land and the ocean. The stories I am collecting are building up into a beautiful body of cultural material that is unique to Ireland’s daoine na mara – the people of the sea; a collection of traditional beliefs, knowledge, language, customs and rituals, and stories of a community, and that we will call surflore. A group brought together by a common love for the ocean, their deeply rooted connection is a sense of a tradition, and of the processes of acquiring and transmitting it through the generations by word of mouth and all the modern forms of storytelling. 

So here is a little insight into Ireland’s surflore: a renewed form of Ireland's sea folklore – a long ignored founding pillar for Ireland's identity as an “island nation”, and a collection of the values, the passions and the knowledge of the men and women riding the waves and living to the rhythm of the tides and of the swells and to the moods of the winds. It is also a rich and exciting journey amongst the treasure trove of narratives, tales and legends all along the coast of Ireland.

 The “Daoine na Mara – Tales from the Green Shores” podcast series is a place to store and share the surflore so that, like the seanachai of times gone by, we may not only collect but transmit the tales, and carry the voice of the people of the sea and help their lore grow strong and bountiful!

I hope you will enjoy the stories shared here, and please do get in touch if you would like to share yours!
Thank you for listening,
Fred x

VINYL RELEASES

TEKITEAZY 01  
TEKITEAZY 02 
TEKITEAZY 03 
TEKITEAZY 04 
TEKITEAZY 05 
TEKITEAZY 06 
TEKITEAZY 07
TEKITEAZY 08 
TEKITEAZY 09 
PROTO PROD 037
DRAMFANK 02 
ABSOLUTE RHYTHTM 09
JAM SESSION RECORDS 01 
JAM SESSION RECORDS 03 
MR FREEZE 007 
MACKITEK 08
MACKITEK 027
MACKITEK 038
MACKITEK 045
3672 1 34 
EUROTEK 02
SINISTRO 01 
ENGRENAGE 03
RSF 12 
TEK NO LOGIQUE 23
PEUR BLEUE 13
PEUR BLEUE 2020
PEUR BLEUE 28
UG MUSIC 01 
SPACE FRIEND 01
ROBOTIK RECORDS 03 
TOOLBOX KILLERZ 36
KALAKMUL 07
INSOMNIAK 003
FLINT 002
INFRABASS SK23 02
HIT THE ROAD 02 
MELLY MZK REPRINTS 02
HARD RHYTHMIK 01
DEMANCE 01 
MEMATRIK 03 
FULLBASS 17

Uploading here my songs here 🙆‍♂️

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