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Digging Deeper with Fred Everything

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Summer is looking glorious for Canada’s Fred Everything, and not only thanks to the release of his new LP.

Long Way Home marks Fred’s fourth artist album, and the first to be released on his own label Lazy Days Recordings. Out June 21, 2018, the album indicates his return to his hometown of Montreal, after 8 years in San Francisco, and also marks a come back to the LP format after ten years.

For the first time, each track was produced in Fred’s home studio, which provided an ideal environment for the revisiting of musical styles that Fred had not been able to explore on EP and Remix formats. The twelve-track album travels through a variety of tempos and rhythms, including broken and electro beats, a clear ’80s disco influence, as well as dub, all embraced by a balearic/coastal feel, inspired by recent travels to Mallorca, Ibiza and Croatia.

Collaborators on the album include Sio from South Africa; who Fred remixed last year on Atjazz Records Company, Jinadu from the UK; known for his many collaborations including Searching produced by Fred in 2015, which became a big hit thanks to the Deetron remix, Franky Selector; an old friend and collaborator from Montreal on vocoder duty and Hot Toddy (Crazy P) who added guitar on the summery disco number “Same Old Sound.” Lauer (Tuff City Kids), Andre Lodemann and Ian Pooley have all  been confirmed for remix duties for the singles.

Following our premiere of one of the remixes from the album, we decided to have a more in-depth chat with Fred to find out more about his time in San Francisco, the reasons behind his move back to Canada and what this album really means to him both personally and artistically.

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Premiere: Andre Lodemann and Fabian Dikof Remix Fred Everything’s Single “By day” on Lazy Day Recordings

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The 2nd single from Fred Everything‘s 4th album, coming out June 21st. This time, featuring the beautiful vocals of South African singer Sio, a close collaborator of Jullian Gomes and Atjazz Records Company. Fred Remixed Jullian & Sio’s 1000 Memories last year (alongside Atjazz, Osunlade and Karizma) and the track won Best Song of The Year at last year’s South Africa Dance Music Awards.

For the original, Sio and Fred wanted to do something a little different so they went in a Broken Beat territory, focussing on the soul of Sio’s voice and adding Rhodes and Live Strings to the arrangements.

On remix duty, Andre Lodemann and his new partner Fabian Dikof worked their magic, turning the track into a deeper late night number with less instrumentations and vocals, concentrating on the dance floor. As a bonus, there’s a brand new ReVersion of the original where Fred sampled part of the original for a quirky house version. Instrumentals are also included.

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