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Frankie Bones

sampler, key, *1966 US, Brooklyn
of Dance
A.k.a. Frank Mitchell Bone-1 Bonesbreaks Escape From Brooklyn Frankie Goes To Brooklyn Frankie Mitchell Ghettoblaster Lake Eerie The Break Boys Tribal Rhythm

Born In 1966 Made his name painting graffiti on the New York Subway system under the name BONES as a member of the legendary A.O.K. (All Out Kings) crew. Frankie Bones was the original and first DJ coming out of the Brooklyn Underground during the mid 80's with the vision of what was yet to come on the global front of Electronic Dance Music culture. His early mission came in the many releases of Fourth Floor Records and Nugroove Records. In a time when timing meant everything, the buzz of his early works caught the attention of the rapidly growing scenesters in the London Orbital M25 raves during the Summer Of Love in 1988. Before his recording career kicked off he worked for 4 months at Apexton Records, working at the pressing plant and in A&R for their label, Underworld Records. Those early "Bonesbreaks" vinyls led Frankie to playing at a rave called "Energy" which had 25,000 people. With the scene already reaching critical mass, Bones had set off a fierce bidding war between XL Recordings and Deconstruction, which led to two albums by Musto & Bones. The U.K. was very impressed by Frankie's unique Brooklyn style which was a raw-freestylish-bass-in-your-bass-bins-but-electro-bass style that was raw enough to keep the entire scene and industry at bay, waiting for the underground to bubble over. With gigs, remixing and production work pouring in by the truckload, Frankie ventured out into the early European scene playing key breaking parties in France, Holland, Italy, Denmark and Germany. Each country taking note of his style and wanting to license music. From all the success in Europe, a booking would follow in Los Angeles based strictly on his success in Europe. In fact the L.A. promoters did not understand where the Brooklyn accent was coming from? But the West Coast scene had just started and Frankie held down Bi-Monthly events in London, L.A. and in NYC. With his brother Adam X he also started Groove Records a record shop which specialised in the techno genre. The Groove Records team would also take part in organizing the first techno events to ever take place in NYC, including the Storm Rave that started in 1991. Storm Rave was the first all-techno warehouse parties organized on the East Coast of America and the lineup included many artists who would go on to become global techno popular figures.

Instruments

• Keyboards

Genres

• Dance
• Electronic
• Hip-Hop/Rap

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