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Fred Froi

These are only demos..

About Me

This is my pop-project i've been working on for the last year. They're just demos (for now). I'm a big fan of old instruments, specially analog synthesizers and other keyboards from the time when the heavier they were, the better they sounded, and of course the wonderful use of wood in stead of todays plasic which encased the circuits and keys. In other words before 1981.
So this music features my vintage keyboards and gadgets, and as little midi as possible to give it that good old 70's feeling. However I use whatever the song demands, and i have really no restrictions what-so-ever. I sample a lot too. On the songs you'll hear real Minimoog Model D, Arp Axxe, Arp Pro Soloist, Mellotron M400, Solina Sting Ensemble, Roland VP-330+, Roland ep-10, Korg Polysix, Hohner Clavinet D6, Rhodes MkII, Hammond C3 & Leslie 147, Vermona Synthesizer, Stylophone, Logan String Melody, Elka Elkapiano 88, Roland VP-70, Casio MT-540, Korg Poly800 II, Korg VC-10, Kawai and Yamaha home organ, various drummachines (Elka Drumstar 80, Chamberlin Rhythmate, Emu Drumulator), a wide range of effects and much more. I'm a very bad guitarist, so i use for instance the clavinet as a substitute for the guitar-chords, and the minimoog as a substitute for the guitar-lead.
My email adress is [email protected]..
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Member Since: 10/29/2006
Band Members: Fred Froi - vintage keyboards, vocals/vocoders, drums, percussion & drummachines,
Influences: Kraftwerk, Ultravox, Air, Tangerine Dream, Ennio Morricone, Klaus Schulze, The Beatles, Bjørk, Jean-Michelle Jarre, Talk Talk, ELP, Portishead, Buddy Rich, Genesis, The Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, PFM, Miles Davis, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, John Coltrane, Rick Wakeman, Herbie Hancock, Depeche Mode, Yes, Radiohead, Dolly Parton, The Doors, Vangelis, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Amon Tobin, Pink Floyd, Røyksopp, Michael Jackson, Madonna, Xploding Plastix, David Bowie, Gwen Stefani, AK-momo, Beck, Jan Hammer, Alison Krauss, Massive Attack, Chick Corea, Boards of Canada, Shylock, Black Sabbath, Human League, Sigur Ros, Brian Eno, Goblin, the Moog Cookbook, Wendy Carlos, Burt Bacharach and of course italian erotic film music from the 70's.
Record Label: Termo Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Update

Happy new year! I haven't done anything with this site since May, so it's about time. I've been very, very busy studying this fall, so I haven't be...
Posted by Fred Froi on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:54:00 PST

..and another one..

Here another soft song.. The Korg Polysix mail-theme on the into is a bit wobbly, but i couldn't recreate the sound to re-record it, so it passed.. Strange though, since i hadn't touched the knob...
Posted by Fred Froi on Wed, 30 May 2007 10:17:00 PST

Finally a new song

I'm having an exam in a week, so of course i'm only making music in stead of reading.. This one I feel is dripping with analog synths. Very juicy..
Posted by Fred Froi on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 06:35:00 PST

Pills

Got some good news yesterday from the doctor! It looks like i don't have to take the so called marevan-pills (blood-thinning pills) i've taken these last six months anymore. I thought i was supposed t...
Posted by Fred Froi on Fri, 09 Feb 2007 12:11:00 PST

New Computer!

I spent 25000 kroner today on a new computer. When I'm first gonna buy a computer I'm gonna buy damn good one.. My last one cost almost the same back in 1999 but by now it's all burned out, and maki...
Posted by Fred Froi on Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:24:00 PST

cross-words

I discovered the joy of cross-words last night at 4 in the morning. I took out my old Donald Duck magazines from 1992 just to have something to read on the bed and I sayed up all night/morning solving...
Posted by Fred Froi on Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:50:00 PST

Happy new year!

2006 is on my top 2 list of the worst years of my life. I hope 2007 will be better.
Posted by Fred Froi on Sun, 31 Dec 2006 02:43:00 PST

Perfect ending

Here's another update. This perfect ending tune was quite uplifting for me, made in a time when I had no money at all, got a massive embolism in my lungs and was alone in my apartment all day and nigh...
Posted by Fred Froi on Tue, 12 Dec 2006 06:51:00 PST

Yet another song

The new song i put out, called "everyone is dead except for you" is one of those songs i made and recorded in matter of hours. While i can use months and years on other songs.. This one is also loaded...
Posted by Fred Froi on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:20:00 PST

Snow

Oh, how i hate snow. Specially snow storms. 
Posted by Fred Froi on Tue, 31 Oct 2006 10:23:00 PST