Funky House

Image	DJ Name	Music Style	MP3	Book
	Kaz Fresh	Funky/Disco House
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Hometown
Norwich, England

Age
23

Music Style(s)
Funky/Disco House

Venues Played
Imagine/Mustard Lounge
Poonana
Owens
Bar Mission
Gallery Bistro
Rythm Factory
Lava
Surrey Tavern
Henry's

Promoters Worked For
Soulshaker
The Groove Establishment
Mission
Funkatarium
Clique
Funky Business
Stimulate
Funk Foundation

Preferred Equipment
1210s all the way...

Tracks Made

In the pipeline....

Break Through Gig
Soulshaker Dj Competition Mustard Lounge Norwich May '04.

Most Memorable Gig
Soulshaker @ Poonana - 4 deck 2 mixer showcase Feb '05. We had the crowd all around us it was crazy and people just get trying to shake my hand - even when I was scratching!

Favourite Venue
Anywhere funky.

Favourite DJ
Danny Rampling.

First Record Bought
Michael Jackson - Thriller

Inspiration
Music inspired me to Dj.

Interesting Facts About Kaz Fresh
I am half Iranian.

Biography

From when I was about 16 I used to frequent indie festivals and watch my favourite bands play. At one of the V festivals I poked my head into a tent
where Joey Negro was playing and I was taken away by the buzz that filled the place. People were dancing, laughing, feeding off the DJ and in turn the DJ was feeding off the crowd. The funky music made people dance and the music itself created a really happy atmosphere. That inspired me to start listening to house music.

I started going to Pams House and went to a couple of Bed events at Gratecrasher before deciding I wanted to have a go Djing, so I purchased some decks at the age of 18. I was told by friends with the 'know-how' that I had a lot of catching up to do. This 'catching up' started when I moved to Nottingham to study. With so many gaps between lectures I filled them with mixing. I returned from my studies with not only my qualifications but with the technical ability to scratch and more importantly beat match.

Nottingham was definately important to my djing development, but I returned I discovered that what I was missing was a crowd.

A person who had experience in front of crowds was my friend Alex Jay, who had been playing for Funkatarium in London for a couple of years. After
mixing for the first time in front of a crowd at his event at the Rhythm Factory early 2004, myself and Alex formed a duo called 2:fACEd. We decided
that we were going to do something different and we started performing as a three deck, two mixer duo. We would layer scratching and accapellas over mixing as well as using samples and it sounded cool.

My first big break came at Soulshaker's DJ competition in May 2004 at Mustard Lounge. We won the competition and gained residency for Soulshaker playing at Poonana's and Surrey Tavern. But things were not quite gelling
with 2:fACEd. We never got the opportunity to practice which I thought was a very important part of doing what we did, and Alex Jay was getting more influenced by edgy house music. My inspirations are good vocal hooks and funky baselines which in turn provide a happy, funky environment and I don't think edgy house purveys a happy environment, besides the crowds loved the tunes we were playing. So why change?

So I didn't. Through musical differences 2:fACEd were no more and I begun playing solely as Kaz Fresh. I kept my residency at Soulshaker and began playing around East Anglia at various venues, whilst being invited back to play for nights that the venues themselves were hosting. I really love playing on my own and having the whole influence on the dancefloor. I love building sets to gradually lift the mood on the dancefloor before hitting the crowd with arrays of awesome tunes at peak hours. I love it during and after sets when people want to shake your hand. It's just verything to me to know that I am giving the people the tunes to make their night the best it can be.

At the moment I am headlining for the Groove Establishment hosted at a number of different nights around East Anglia and totally loving the
atmosphere and following the night brings. I am also producing tunes (early stages at present) and hope that the progress I am making now can develop into releases in the not too distant future.

Keep the dancefloors funky and the crowd will follow.......

Forthcoming gigs

Groove Establishment @ Gallery Bistro, Mustard Lounge and NY Eve. Ibiza 2006...

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