Frequency (record producer)

Frequency (born Bryan Fryzel in January 17, 1983) is an American music producer and DJ from Rockville Centre, New York.

Biography

Frequency was born in Rockville Centre, New York in 1983. While attending Oceanside High School, he began to DJ at school dances and house parties.^[1] He also began experimenting with production.^[1] While still in high school, Frequency met 6th Sense, a MC from Pelham, New York.^[1] Soon thereafter, the two of them formed a group, The Understudies, alongside 6th Sense’s friend and mentor Mr. Tibbs.^[1]

The Understudies went on to perform in and out of New York alongside various groups including The Roots, John Legend, Rahzel, MF Doom, High and Mighty, Sage Francis, Cage, Ugly Duckling, Jean Grae and Cannibal Ox. They then signed a record deal on Freshchest/High Time Records, where they released the 12" single, "Now & Then" b/w "Bananas" in the summer of 2004.^[1] Although the record sold over 1,000 copies through Caroline Distribution and was met with critical praise, the group broke up, and their full-length album, produced solely by Frequency, was shelved.

In 2004, New York underground mainstay Wordsworth sought Frequency out while he was recording his solo debut LP, Mirror Music. Frequency produced 3 tracks on Mirror Music: “Shoulder,” “One Day” and “Don’t Go.” That year, Frequency went on to work with several other artists he had met in New York’s independent scene: from Oktober (“NYC” on Projekt: Building) to Tonedef (“Give A Damn Remix” on Archetype) to El Da Sensei (“Natural Feel Good” on The Unusual).^[1]

In 2006 Frequency won Scion’s New York leg of the King of the Beats competition, and produced a number of records for major label artists such as “Plenty of Love” by Raekwon, Gravy and Tikky Diamonds and “Ya’ll Can’t Live His Life” by Cam'ron. That year, Frequency also collaborated with Hip-Hop icon Snoop Dogg on “Think About It,” which was the first song on Snoop’s LP Tha Blue Carpet Treatment. Snoop himself repeatedly has referred to the song in interviews as his favorite track on the album.^[2]

The following year, Frequency produced tracks for Ghostface Killah, Red Café, Lil' Mama, eMC (Masta Ace, Punch, Words and Strick), A. Pinks, and the New York radio anthem for Juganot, “En Why Cee” (featuring Joell Ortiz and Uncle Murda).^[3] Also in 2007, Frequency reunited with 6th Sense to produce the bulk of 6th’s Rawkus debut LP It’s Coming Soon.

Soon thereafter, Frequency began working heavily with the Trackmasters, with whom he produced several tracks for an unreleased Lil' Kim LP, as well as tracks for Game, Keyshia Cole, Beenie Man, Slim (from 112) and others.^[4] He also continued to place records on his own, producing songs such as “One Chance (Make It Good)” for Snoop Dogg's 2008 release Ego Trippin', "Like Me" for Ja Rule, "I'm All That" for Ras Kass, and "Onslaught" and "Fight Klub" for lyrical supergroup Slaughterhouse.

In 2009, Frequency spent much of his time developing Adair, a Pop music singer/songwriter signed to his production company, Freq Show Music, Inc. That year he also released "Welcome to the Freq Show: The Best of Frequency" with Trackstar the DJ.^[5] In December, Frequency released "Road Kill" with Joell Oritz, a mixtape featuring freestyles that Joell recorded during the K.O.D. Tour and four original tracks, three of which - "Ortiz In This Bitch", "Snake Charmer", and "50 For the People"—were produced by Frequency.^[6]

In 2010, Frequency joined forces with indie alt rock singer/songwriter/producer Anna Yvette to form FNA. As a production team, FNA has written and produced songs for other artists, including "All We Have" by MGK and the Joell Ortiz single "So Hard."^[7] FNA also secured a record deal with Big Beat/Atlantic Records.^[8] They released one single: "Take Me Home Tonight" - a dance remake of the classic record originally recorded by Eddie Money and Ronnie Spector.^[8]

In 2011, Frequency worked extensively with iFFY the Bad Man. iFFY's first single, "Do You?" (Produced by Frequency) was released by Universal Republic on August 2, 2011.^[9] iFFY released a seven song EP, "Lover by Day, Thief at Night" through his website, http://youthisdead.com, on May 1, 2012.^[9] The EP was recorded and mixed by Frequency with Ariel Borujow, and features five songs produced by Frequency.^[9] Also on May 1, B.o.B's sophomore album, "Strange Clouds," was released. "Strange Clouds" includes the Frequency-produced record "Chandelier."

Recently, Frequency produced the debut album for New York-based band MisterWives, entitled Our Own House.^[10] The album's lead single "Reflections" peaked at #13 on the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart ^[11] and shot up to #1 on the Billboard Twitter Emerging Artist Chart. ^[12]

Frequency is perhaps best known for producing and co-writing the #1 hit record "The Monster" by Eminem and Rihanna.^[13] "The Monster" reached #1 on eight separate Billboard charts, including four weeks at #1 on the Hot 100^[14] and thirteen weeks at #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.^[15] It also topped the charts in twelve countries including Australia, Canada, France, Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

Frequency is also a DJ. He served as eMC’s tour DJ in Europe in the summer of 2008 and Pharoahe Monch's tour DJ during a 2010 tour in Canada. For the last few of years, he has been Slaughterhouse's tour DJ, appearing with them at the Paid Dues Festival, Rock the Bells (in 2009 and 2011), the K.O.D. Tour with Tech N9ne, several Red Bull events, the Brisk Bodega and various other shows.^[5][16] While touring with Slaughterhouse in 2009, Frequency became well known for appearing in several videos posted on JoeBuddenTv.com, as well as Joe Budden's BlogTV channel. In addition, he has toured extensively with Joell Ortiz and has DJ'd several dates for Royce da 5'9", Crooked I and Joe Budden. For several years, Frequency also was one of the house DJs at the Whiskey Bar in Times Square.^[17]

Selected discography

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References

External links

• Dubcnn.com
• Hhnlive.com
• Nodfactor.com
• Blog.istandardproducers.com
• Cloutonline.com
• Djbooth.net
• Jasonano.com
• Iffythebadmanmusic.com
• Getrightmusic.com
• Nwtekno.org