VJ Freedom
VJ Abbrev. Video jockey
RT Abbrev. RealTime
Freedom n. the state of being free > unrestricted use of something, free expression
VJ FREEDOM is a specialist in RealTime Visuals, in other words he generates visuals completely live and in time with the music, he uses No Timecodes, No Sync Codes and No Triggers. He is the REAL, REALTIME VJ.
FORTHCOMING SUMMER DATES
Frantic 13th Birthday Party @ KOKO Camden 29th August
Main Stage @ the Psyfiles festival in Turkey 23rd - 26th September
Glastonbury 10 - Dance Village - East Tent - Silent Disco - 23rd - 27th June
I was Invited back to Glastonbury for the fourth year running which is cool and ended up doing Boy George, Dubfire, MixHell, DJ Ramses and meeting all the Magic Bubble Bods from Holland and various other bands and having a great 40th Festival. The visuals I did with DJ Ramses and his Balkan Beats set especially pleased me as it was a departure from my normal style and is now an ongoing project. Shows for the U.K. are being planned as it already has a great following in Europe and is building. It was a pleasure also to do visuals for Boy George's suprise DJ set in the Magic Bubble and Mr. O'Dowd played a really groovy set.
HHA @ Brixton Academy - 17-10-09 - Main Stage
To be invited do visuals at Brixton Academy for HHA was coolio! The main stage lineup was really interesting as many top dj's including Andy Whitby, Kutski (Radio 1) and Activator from Italy where all playing. (The full lineup can be seen in the alongside section).
Great atomosphere, great crowd, great sound system, great production! I had my visuals on 4 large screens.
As Kutski said on his Radio 1 show 'It was like playing in the Hard House cup final'.
There are 3 clips in the movie section and apologies for the sound quality but it's taken from my camcorder and the sound to the side of the stage was really booming.
Well done to all the Frantic crew.
Freedom Festival Portugal 6th - 10th August 09 - Main Stage
I liked the idea of going to Portugal to do a Psychedelic festie or 'party' and I was not disappointed. I was booked to do every night on the main stage and played alongside so great jock's including Dino Psaras, Paul Taylor, Shift (South Africa), Twisted Reaction (Israel), Zorflux and Tamaris from Portugal (Loved her set). There is a full list in the 'Alongside' section.
Due to a few technical difficulties and delays I did not play until the second night and thanks to Ze (Stage Manager) for seeing my light and Telmo who supplied me with some kit that I could not take out with me.
Had a brilliant session with the Holistic 'Bone Man' Fernandez who straightened me out and smoothed out the kinks.
I was very pleased with the visuals I did and there are four movies on the movie section to look at. Thanks also to my travelling partner and daughter 'Weeb' who did some filming for me. Also thanks to all the organisers and drivers for understanding my 'artistic' requirements.
I hope to be doing some more Psychedelic festivals in Europe later this year and next and have been invited to Paris to do a show,
Also thanks to ELEA who played the main stage on the third night, groovy bods and great tunes and Vasco (Zorflux) who kept me entertained!
Great people, great crowd, great vibe, just happy to have been a part of it. Love and respect to you all and a great choice of name for the festival!
Glastonbury 09 - Dance Village - East Tent - Silent Disco - 25th - 28th June
Had the pleasure of returning to Glastonbury for the third year running and it was great to catch up with some familiar faces and to meet some new people in the backstage campsite. Thanks to Matt for driving and helping me at the Festival. I did visuals in the East Tent for the Silent Disco event which was a new experience for me as I had to use headphones but it went really well with good crowds. I did live visuals for Jim Masters, Appleblim and Dave Seaman and the Silent Disco d.j's. Because of the late starting times I managed to get to see Madness, The Specials, Crosby Stills and Nash who were sublime, Dizzee Rascal, Spinal Tap. I also stumbled across a band called The Delegators in the Clud Dada tent and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, both were great. Arcadia needs to be seen to be believed as well! I also met and filmed a Mini Documentary on an Artist called Steve Harrington-Ellsmore in the Croissant Neuf field and it can be viewed at http://www.youtube.com/freedomworkz along with some Delegators footage.
All in all a very enjoyable Glasters and great to be involved with the Dance Village and all it's many stages and acts, including a d.j. playing Bulgarian Oompah Ska.
I will look forward to the next one!
Slammin Vinyl's - Tranz-mission @ Alexandra Palace - Frantic Arena 11-4-09
(See movie section for youtube movies)
I had been looking forward to this one as it is good to get stuck into a Frantic mash-up.
The line-up of jock's was good so there was lot's of scope for me to express myself.
Slammin did a great job with arena and I had an extreme fairground ride at my back chucking out a cool breeze all night. The LCD screen was great quality but the drawback was that it did not film well. It also didn't help that the lightning guys kept the DJ stage area dimly lit. With LCD screens you can get colouration patterns on yer film but it came out quite well. I had a lot of people coming watching me and asking how I did the visuals and had some great comments and compliments which is nice. I gave out biscuits and water to a few punters and had a great time. It was pretty intense as I did the visuals for the whole night. I am in conversation with certain parties about doing a specialist visual set for various profile DJ's as the only drawback I have is that I do not know what tune is coming next and have to do it 'on the fly' which is cool and it's beneficial that I have a trance background as I am pretty good at anticipating the breaks, drops, builds etc.
Met briefly a couple of security girls form Crawley and Windsor and gave them a banana each, the one from Crawley grabbed the biggest banana, need I say more,,,,,,
I have been asked to do Frantic's Birthday party at Koko in August so bring it on!
Frantic Timeless 7 @ Kentish Town Forum February 09 Had a great night at the Forum with Frantic. It was the first time for me with Frantic and also it was a welcome return for me as I had not been to this venue for a while. I looked after the visuals for the whole night and did some great live stuff for BK, Frisky, Karim and Phil Reynolds, Matt Pickup and really enjoyed mixing and mashing up my visuals with Andy Whitby visuals for his kicking set. Have been asked to do the visuals for Frantic at Tranz-mission @ Alexandra Palace 11-4-09 so bring it on!
Glastonbury 08 was Glorious! It was great to be back at Glastonbury and to provide the visuals in the Dance Lounge for the four night duration. I used a two screen set up which was ideal. Many thanks to Mr. Crosby for delivering and returning me and my stuff in one piece.
I started live visuals every night around 7.30 - 8 p.m. and finished at 3 a.m.
I set my VJ (video jockey) station up on stage right which was ideal for my live style as I was close to the bands and DJ's (disc jockey). I used a live camera more extensively for the bands and mixed in graphics and also used a lot of white and black key burnouts which worked very well.
It was cool to work with the likes of Phil Hartnell, Kissy Sell Out, Ozomatli, Cut Copy, Beardyman, a full list of all the Artists, bands and d.j's that I did visuals for is located in the Alongside section.
You will also find some clips of the Phil Hartnell set and clips from the Kid British live set and a shortie from Annie's live set in the movie section.
In the picture section there are images of other Artists and pics from the festival.
VJ Freedom has also performed live visual vj (video jockey) sets for Mika, Mark Ronson and Dave Clarke at Glastonbury 07, Nick Sentience's Innovate at Shepherds Bush Empire, Heaven, The Fridge, Addiction club nights, Heat UK at KOKO Camden, Eastern Haze Festival, Antiworld Festival, Euphoria Live Ayia Napa @ Abyss night club, Limelight Corfu...
VJ Freedom uses a mix of graphic creations, live footage and video clips and believes that anything and everything is visual and can be used vj'ing if it represents the style and feel of the music that is being generated at the club nights.
VJ Freedom also was the first Club promoter to use I.MAX quality polarised 3D images at his Euphoria-live Club Nights in Ayia Napa and Corfu.
He is currently working on a live VJ (video jockey) DJ (disc jockey) set
This VJ site will show you many clips and pictures from a selection of live events, music festivals and club nights VJ Freedom has done and the biography is a brief but full summation of his history to date within the music and clubbing industry.
Always keep it fresh and try news concepts.
INTERESTED IN THE FUTURE?
Any good quality Pschedelic Trance, Trance, Electro, Dance, Hard Dance dj's with some history that want to work with me to do a vj/dj set please email me. London based preferred but not essential. Coolio. |
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