Frankie Valentine (UK)
DJ / Producer / Remixer
Music Style: Eclectic range of music genres
Frankie Valentine is a well known DJ and producer but information about him has been one of the best-kept secrets in the British music industry so far! As one of the pioneering club DJ's during the dance music revolution in the eighties, Frankie's love for new sounds quickly established him as one of the major British exponents of dance music. His talents were inevitably recognized abroad where he has spent much of his time DJ’ing and producing.
Frankie began his DJ career in the mid 70s in London lifting reggae sound system speaker boxes at the tender age of 13. After serving his apprenticeship as a box boy he then began to explore his musical tastes more in depth.
Some of his past residencies in London include: Ronnie Scotts in Soho, The Limelight, The Park in Kensington, The Rotary Club held at The Gardening Club - Covent Garden, Madame JoJo's in Soho, Right Area @ Plastic People and The End. He also held a residency abroad at the famous Tresor in Berlin. He has also supported many internationally known acts such as: Electribe 101, 808 State, Underground Resistance, Yoruba Jazz People, Bah Samba, Ultra Nate, Also Pocho and his Latin soul brothers.
In 1990 his first recording,” Tokyo Offshore Project" was released on Scien Records in Japan and since then, he has recorded on countless labels around the globe. Frankie has been known to take on the occasional remix, remixing artists such as Leroy Burgess, Blaze, The Revsionaries featuring Alexis P. Suter, Chari Chari, and Nicky Lawrence, To date Frankie has Recorded two Albums, Below The Radar in 2002 and next month we will see the release of his Second Album, “The world Of What”, both Releases are On the Austrian Record label Sunshine Enterprises. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Frankie Valentine’s ‘World Of What’ album - European edition
LC14068 available through Soul Seduction U.K & Ultra Vibe Japan
The world of what is a soundtrack to the journey of music as it seeks out affinity. Across diasporas, despite language, the same whispers: wherever you are in time and space the rhythms remain the same. The melodies of this world of what call back along electronic ancestral lines, understanding is an infinite back catalogue of drum-skinned syllables, music is its indestructible constant in an equilibrium increasingly off balance. The world of what is a two pence coin for your mind’s stylus.
In the world of what African melancholy folds its metre into the sounds of Bahia, from this trans-continental tectonics, a bat signal in the shape of west London appears, dreams not so much broken as multiplied. The world of what is a cultural cross-pollination; plane tickets from Istanbul, Vienna and Rio fall like seeds from a wax packed record box. The further the distance travelled, the greater the realisation that distance don’t mean shit; the connections become more defined, the music is ethereal.
There is gravity in the depression of keys, in the air from horns and spit from breath-it stops us falling. Time and space are a fiction; a whole Byzantine orchestra jostles for room and mic time in the studios of the future. When the revolutions begin - jazz is everywhere; alive in the humidity, the electrical currents of samplers, the air between feet and the sandy dancefloor.
The world of what is sound measured in beats per minute - a 33 rpm pulse greeting from Greencoat mansions to the expanding vibrational cosmos that’s disappearing but forever contactable. (Magus)
The legendary Frankie Valentine finally delivers his latest project ‘The World Of What’ in March 2007 through Sunshine Records out of Vienna. For close to 2 years Frankie has been sharing studio time, jamming and field recording with a diverse array of classical, ‘world’ and electronic musicians in Turkey, Austria, Germany, Japan and Brazil, returning to London this year to piece together a cohesive and eclectic vision of his world in sound.
1. Joga
2. Zumbi
3. Marinheiro So feat. Monica Vasconcelos
4. Praia do Forte
5. Lepidoptera
6. Divorced From Reality
7. Paradise Regained
8. Istanbul via Bahia
9. Where Shadows meet
10. Tears from The Maiden’s Tower
11. Captain Kirk’s Love Theme
The tracks incorporate strains of House, World, Broken, Jazz, Prog’ and Electronica and will be further diversified by a substantial and impressive remix package featuring: DJ Mitsu, Henrik Schwarz, Slam Mode, Jeremy Newall, Bushwacka and isoul8/Afropsychopathz.
Each of these twelve inch releases and the LP/CD, promo covers and inlays have been designed by Magus bretheren & painter/designer supremo Danny Sangra (they are phenomenal: check them out on myspace.com/magusarts & check Dannys other work on his website dannysangra.com)
Please hit us up with any questions/response/request on the myspace
Peace: Domammu Duchamp & Uncle Jeff
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DISCOGRAPHY
YEAR – POSITION – LABEL - ARTIST - TITLE
2007 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine Marinheiro So feat. Monica Vasconcelos
2007 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine Divorice From Reality
2007 CD/LP Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine The World of What
2007 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine Zumbi
2007 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine Paradise Regained
2006 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine World of What
2006 CD Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine The World of What (Japan Release)
2005 12" Remixer n/a Tokma 555
2004 12" Remixer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Afro Psycho Pathz "Angel"
2003 CD Artist/Producer PVine
Records (Japan) Frankie Valentine "Tax on Talent"
2003 12" Producer Spot Records (Canada) Frankie Valentine "Merengada Remixes"
2003 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine "Frankie Valentine In Vienna"
2003 12" Remixer Diaspora Records (Toronto Canada) Nicky Lawrence "Dreamer"
2002 12" Remixer Hipbone Records (New York USA) Alexis P. Suter "What can I do for you?"
2002 12" Remixer Estereo Records (Brighton UK) Roland Clark "Speak To Me"
2002 CD/LP/12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine "Below the Radar"
2002 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine "Intro / Outro"
2002 12" Artist/Producer Rhythm Media Tribe (Japan) Frankie Valentine "Scrap Iron Rebel"
2001 12" Artist/Producer R2 Records / BBE Records (London UK) Frankie Valentine "Dance the Happy Life"
2001 12" Artist/Producer Sunshine Enterprises (Vienna Austria) Frankie Valentine "Moog Rock"
2001 12" Remixer Catch the vibe Records (London UK) Leoroy Burgess "Heaven"
2000 12" Artist/Producer Rekawa Sounds (Italy) Frankie Valentine "Midnight Sun"
2000 12" Artist/Producer File Records (Japan) Frankie Valentine "Back of Beyond"
2000 12" Artist/Producer Dynamite Joint Records (London UK) Frankie Valentine "Merengada"
1999 12" Remixer Disorient (London) M&M Productions "Gypsy Heart"
1999 12" Producer Quiet Riot (London) Anita Davis "Lift your soul"
1999 12" Remixer Slip n Slide (London UK) Blaze "My Beat"
1999 12" Remixer File Records (Japan) Chari Chari "Across the Universe"
1999 12" Artist/Producer Exlesxsis Records (Athens Greece) Frankie Valentine "Fox Congo Strutt"
1999 12" Artist/Producer Music Is (London UK) Frankie Valentine "Pescara Blues"
1999 12" Artist/Producer Auto Extension (London UK) Frankie Valentine "Criminal Kiss"
1998 12" Artist/Producer Estereo Records (Brighton UK) Frankie Valentine "Ain't no ransom w/out a hostage"
1998 12" Producer Auto Extension (London UK) Frankie Valentine "Columbo's Mac"
1998 12" Artist/Producer Estereo Records (Brighton UK) Frankie Valentine "The Spanish Dance"
1998 12" Artist/Producer Estereo Records (Brighton UK) Frankie Valentine "Staring in the Face of Extiction"
1997 12" Producer Icon Records (Iceland) Icelandic Conspiracy "Twist to Forget"
1997 12" Artist/Producer Exlesxsis Records (Athens Greece) Frankie Valentine "Fox Congo Strutt"
1997 12" A&R Icon Records (Iceland) Frankie Valentine "Bix Project Volume 1
1997 12" Artist/Producer Insense Records (London UK) Luigi Manzo "Junkie Blues"
1996 12" Artist/Producer Music Is (London UK) Frankie Valentine "Dub o Dub Rub"
1995 12" Remixer NEC Avenue (Japan) Sergio Mendiz "Magdalanea"
1994 12" Artist/Producer Kooky Grooves Records (London UK) Tokyo Offshore "Hyper Ambient"
1994 12" Remixer Soul Syndicate (Japan) WPF "Trance of Love"
1993 12" Remixer Kooky Grooves Records (London UK) Bootsy Collins "Wild life EP"
1993 12" Remixer Scien Records (Japan) Kinomoderno "Sync You"
1992 12" A&R/Producer Kooky Grooves Records (London UK) Richard A. Davis "Reach for the Sky"
1990 12" Producer Scien Records (Japan) Tokyo Offshore "Aerotec"
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