{"id":714,"date":"2018-08-10T00:32:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T23:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.francisredman.com\/DJ\/?page_id=714"},"modified":"2020-07-08T15:22:26","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T14:22:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/francisredman.com\/dj\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"[vc_row thb_full_width=”true” css=”.vc_custom_1533860329657{background-image: url(http:\/\/www.francisredman.com\/DJ\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/MG_7803.jpg?id=733) !important;background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}”][vc_column]\t
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People and records.<\/h2>\n[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_column_text]I was a child in 1980s East London. I owned a few records and tapes when I was a kid, the most credible of which was probably a Maxi Priest 7\u2033 that I won for being the best dancer at a school disco.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was a teenager on the South Coast of Devon in the 1990s. I was getting into electronic music, and on a school trip to Paris in 1996 I bought a Frankie Knuckles compilation and a Daft Punk 12\u2033. For the next few years I spent most weekends in the record shop in the seaside town I grew up in (imagine that) and was exposed to a progressively wider mix of music. I bought some Soundlabs and learned to mix, when I finished school I took a year out to save up to buy some music equipment and some proper turntables. I spent a lot more time in record shops and a lot of money on broken beat.<\/span><\/p>\n

I studied creative music technology whilst living in Bristol around the turn of the century. Thanks to some brilliant lecturers I learned about musique concr\u00e8te and contemporary composition. I also realised however, that I was more interested in, and better at, collecting and presenting other peoples music than making my own.<\/span><\/p>\n

I now live back in East London, around the corner from where I grew up. I have DJ\u2019d a bit over the years, but really fell in love with radio. After various stints on community and pirate stations I found a home on a new station called NTS back in 2011, where my show remained a mainstay of Sunday evenings until the end of\u00a02018. I started a new show called We Have Sound on Threads in 2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the years I have met a lot of friends, not to mention some very talented people. I recently started Trouble in Utopia records and have also worked across the music industry for various labels in a creative capacity.<\/span><\/p>\n

Music as an emotive force is something that continues to galvanize, and it brings me joy daily. Its power to create communities and connect people is equally inspiring.<\/span><\/p>\n

I had a conversation with someone recently about how considering how you think the world is, and perhaps should be, is a powerful idea. I am thinking about this a lot at the moment – I am into a lot of different music, my playlists and sets reflect that.<\/span><\/p>\n

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