Daniel Edward Stein (born 11 April 1977), known professionally as DJ Fresh, is an English DJ and record producer. He is one of the principal members of the

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group

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, alongside Darren White ( dBridge), Jason Maldini and Michael Wojcicki (Vegas). He also owns and runs the drum and bass label

Breakbeat Kaos Breakbeat Kaos is a British independent record label based in London, UK that specialises in drum and bass. It is jointly owned by Fresh and Adam F, who founded the label in 2003 by merging Fresh's Breakbeat Punk with Adam F's Kaos Recordin ...

with

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. DJ Fresh released his third studio album, '' Nextlevelism'', in October 2012 on

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Recordings, which includes the two number one hit singles " Louder" and " Hot Right Now" – the UK's first

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and

number ones respectively – " The Power", "

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", "

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" and " Gold Dust". DJ Fresh scored his fourth top five single with "

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", a collaboration with

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label boss

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, featuring Dominique Young Unique, " Dibby Dibby Sound", a collaboration with

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producer Jay Fay also featuring the garage vocalist

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, "

", featuring

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and featuring on " Say You Do" by

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also featuring Imani. DJ Fresh has 2.8 million record sales, two number one singles and a further eight top 10 singles to his name. He also has over 157 million plays on his YouTube channel.

Career

Early success and ''Escape from Planet Monday'' (1998–2008)

Along with the three other members of Bad Company, Fresh founded the

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BC Recordings, as well as the website Dogs on Acid. Bad Company's track "The Nine", was released in 1998 when Fresh was just 21 years old. "The Nine" was later voted the greatest drum & bass track of all time by readers of Knowledge Magazine Resuming his solo career in 2002, Fresh founded Breakbeat Punk, which merged with

's Kaos Recordings to become

in 2003. In 2004 ''Dogs on Acid'' was given its own imprint. In 2006, Fresh released his first studio album, '' Escape from Planet Monday'', featuring "The Immortal", "X Project", "Nervous" and "All that Jazz" on Breakbeat Kaos.

''Kryptonite'' and commercial success (2009–2011)

In 2009 Fresh released a 12" of "Heavyweight" (with Fantasia on the B side) on the Digital Soundboy label. "Heavyweight" had a different style from Fresh's usual output, and gained positive reviews and a general positive response through the underground scene and within various radio stations. Fresh subsequently released "Hypercaine" (including a remix from

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in September 2009) "BBK – DJ Fresh News // Hypercaine, Heavyweight, Kryptonite"
''Dogsonacid.com'', retrieved 11 August 2009. and made

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's daytime playlist. On 1 August 2010, he re-released his song " Gold Dust" featuring vocals from

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, where it peaked 24 in the UK and 39 in Ireland, it marked his first Top 40 hit in both countries. On 16 August, he released his second studio album, "

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" where it peaked 4 on the

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. He then released his follow-up single called "Lassitude" with

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featuring vocals from Koko. It managed to peak 98 on the UK Singles Chart and 11 on the

''Nextlevelism'' and continued commercial success (2011–2012)

" Louder", the first single from his third album '' Nextlevelism'', was released on 3 July 2011. The song was used as part of a

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Lite advertising campaign in the UK and Ireland. The song features vocals from Welsh singer Sian Evans from the band Kosheen and peaked number 4 on the

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and was the first ever

number one on the UK Singles Chart. On 12 February 2012, the second single " Hot Right Now", featuring British singer

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, became his second number one in the UK, and the first drum and bass song to chart at number one in the UK. The third single from the album, " The Power", which features rapper

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, was officially released on 3 June 2012. Following the release of his fourth single, "

", which features rapper RaVaughn, on 23 September 2012, DJ Fresh released his new album '' Nextlevelism'' on 1 October 2012. " Nextlevelism" includes the songs " Hot Right Now", " Louder", " The Power", " Gold Dust", "

" and features

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, Professor Green, Ms Dynamite,

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and Liam Bailey.

2012–2018

Stein started working in 2012 on his fourth studio album. The album's lead single, "

", is a collaboration with

and Dominique Young Unique. The song was released on 18 August 2013 and managed to reach number four on the UK Singles Chart. An edited version titled "Motherquake" was produced and released specifically for the film '' Kick-Ass 2''. The album's second single, "Dibby Dibby Sound", samples the song "Dibby Dibby" by moombahton producer Jay Fay and features additional vocals from

. The song is credited as DJ Fresh vs. Jay Fay. The song received the title of

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's "Hottest Record in the World". The third single from the album, "

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", is credited as DJ Fresh vs. TC featuring

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. The song is a reworking of TC's previously unreleased 2012 song "Make You Bounce" and was released on 29 June 2014. The fourth single, "

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", features

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and was released on 28 September 2014. It is a reworking of the original version that appears on Goulding's album '' Halcyon Days''. The fifth single, "

", features

and was released on 8 February 2015. The song appears on Eyre's album '' Feline''.The sixth single, " Believer", with DJ

, was released as a digital download on 7 June 2015. " How Love Begins", with bass DJ and producer

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featuring vocals from English rapper, songwriter, singer, and record producer

and uncredited vocals from

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. The song was released as a digital download on 5 February 2016 as the seventh single. " Bang Bang", with

featuring vocals from R. City,

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and

Craig David Craig Ashley David (born 5 May 1981) is an English singer. He rose to fame in 1999, featuring on the single " Re-Rewind" by Artful Dodger. David's debut studio album, '' Born to Do It'', was released in 2000, to great commercial success. In to ...

. The song was released as a digital download on 9 December 2016 as the eighth single from Fresh's forthcoming fourth studio album.

2018–present

After surviving cancer in 2017, Fresh changed his focus to his other long running passion of software development. He now works as a machine learning-focused software engineer in

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, England.

Discography

;Studio albums * '' Escape from Planet Monday'' (2006) * ''

'' (2010) * '' Nextlevelism'' (2012)

Awards and nominations

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Fresh 1977 births Living people English drum and bass musicians English electronic dance music DJs Place of birth missing (living people) English people of German descent English remixers English record producers Musicians from Worthing