Fanny (artist)
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Fanny is an alias of Winnipeg, Manitoba breakcore producer and Scottish expatriate Fraser Runciman.
Fanny began his musical career in the 1980s at the end of the British punk rock explosion, playing guitar for bands in Edinburgh. He used influences from The Banshees to Def Jam, Stravinsky to P-Funk. This playing style brought him to the attention of local punk rock legends The Exploited, whom he joined in 1993. Fraser toured Europe and South America as guitarist of The Exploited and is featured as "the human bone" on the Live In Buenos Aires concert tape. He also co-wrote and recorded the "Beat the Bastards" lp but quit the band before the album was released, so he wasn't credited for it.
Fraser left Scotland to play in the Canadian funk rock band Bootsauce and moved to Montreal. After the band fell apart Fraser stayed in Winnipeg. By this time he was tired of guitars and rock and having new musical ambitions and visions he returned to the sampler experiments that he first began in the eighties. He traded in his guitars for synths and a PC and released a Booty House/Dub CD titled "Come and get it up yer" in 1999, which went Top 5 on local Winnipeg Radio.
When he met Aaron Funk, Fraser discovered a new musical direction and changed his musical direction towards breakcore. Weekend trips to Wisconsin and the legendary barn parties in East Troy pushed him further in this direction. It was there that he met Destro from Zod records and Eiterherd from Widerstand records and plans were made to release his new tracks.
Released the first 2 full length CD's on Germany's Mirex Records (2002,2003)
Has toured Europe & the US several times with Venetian Snares, Sickboy, Duran Duran Duran, Xanopticon & Abelcain.
Signed to Winnipeg's Sublight Records in 2004, releasing Strange Planes (2004) & Shoebomb Hurricane (2006)
Short Film Soundtracks Afternoon (2006) Praying Mantis Upskirt (2007) Whiteside (2008)
Founded Girlcum Records (2006)
"One of Winnipeg's finest imports is now one of its most famous exports. Fanny crafts some of the most bizarre dance music you'll ever hear. Spastic rhythms draw you into the water and an undercurrent of subversive humour drags you away to uncharted depths. His work proves that music can be serious and complex and wickedly funny" - DJ Fishead
"Lord Byron of the Naughties" - William Droon
"The Don Quixote of breakcore" - Anon
[edit] Selected Discography
- Fear & Loathing For Dummies 1 7" (2001) (Mirex Records)
- Fear And Loathing For Dummies 2 12" (2001) (Zod Records)
- Fear And Loathing For Dummies CD (2002) (Mirex Records)
- Fuck Everything That Moves 12" (2002) (Black Monolith Records)
- Leopards of Mass Destruction 7" (2003) (Death$ucker Records)
- Revelry & Decadence As The Right Of Slaves CD (2003) (Mirex Records)
- Welcome To The Machines 12" (2003) (Violent Turd Records)
- Strange Planes Spray Cancers On Winnipeg CD (2004) (Sublight Records, Inc.)
- Shoebomb Hurricane CD (2006) (Sublight Records, Inc.)
- NRFT1203 12" (2006) (No Room For Talent Records)
- The Great American Fear Meter 12" (2007) (Girlcum Records)
- The Dr Who Split W/ Davros 12" (2007) (Noisetek Records)
