Nick Williams Aka Free-Care

Nick Williams Aka Free-Care

Biografía

In 2013 Nick was asked to start as A&R at legendary Belgian techno label R&S records, after some time he was asked to create and run a new sub-label for them: Meda Fury. Now over 20 releases deep - Meda Fury caters to exotic strains of house music from all over the globe. Releases so far include DJ Seinfeld, Hazylujah, Takuya Matsumoto, Damon Bell, OL, D-Ribeiro, Pearl River Sound, Ryota OPP, Lady Blacktronika, Rimbaudian, Sad City, Pletnev and Alleged Witches.  
 In his day job Nick has been running the counter and shop floor at Phonica Records in Soho London for 9 years now, regularly serving up new releases to some of the busiest working DJ's, everyone from Seth Troxler to Andrew Weatherall, Mr.G to Trevor Jackson, Honey Dijon, Four Tet and Moodymann... 
Not feeling restrictions in his DJ sets Nick likes to draw on everything from proto-house to UK acid, modern deep jazziness and Afro influences to bass heavy hybrids, discoid weirdies and electro to lo-fi abstractions... 
 Nick's affinity with DJ'ing started when attending the first outdoor incarnations of Tribal Gathering festival, as well as illegal parties in London. Going to Ibiza in 1997 was a turning point, especially after unexpectedly playing a set when invited back to the infamous Manumission Motel. After living in Australia for a year Nick returned to the UK to base himself in London, this saw him make music his career - working in vinyl pressing plants, distributors and record shops.  Finally landing in Phonica, Nick has played warm-up duties for Moodymann, Joy O, Four Tet, Dinos Chapman, Shackleton, Carl Craig and Omar-S.  Whilst also promoting his own club nights in recent years (solo and with collaborators) he provided UK debut performances for Vakula, Ron Morelli, Maxmillion Dunbar, Beautiful Swimmers, and Ital. These parties also saw him booking Paul White, Bullion, Magic Mountain High, Kyle Hall, Maurice Fulton, DMX Krew, Funkineven and Computer Jay. 
 In the last few years he has DJ'ed at London venues such as Corsica Studios, Plastic People, Great Suffolk St, and Fire.  In 2013 he played both Room 1 and Room 3 at Fabric. In 2014 Nick has played DJ support in London for Kassem Mosse, Rick Wilhite, and Derrick Carter. And in Sheffield supported Carl Craig and Midland. 2015 has also seen him play abroad in Berlin, Munich, Venice, Belgium and support for Nick Hoppner in Croatia, supporting Nina Kraviz in Sheffield and going b2b with Space Dimension Controller at an R&S party in Antwerp. 2016 was the busiest year yet for international and domestic gigs. Supporting Dego and Terrence Parker in Peckham and Public Possession in Hackney Wick, he played in Italy twice (Milan and Puglia), also in Berlin supporting Rouge Mecanique, a boat party with Delano Smith in Greece at the festival Odyysia, and back again to Croatia - this time for his Dimensions Festival debut, also playing outside at Notting Hill Carnival, a debut gig in Paris and two debut dates in Tokyo with Ryota OPP! 2017 has brought return gigs in London, Sheffield, Berlin and Milan, and debuts in Copenhagen, Farr Festival UK and Locus Festival in Italy.  There will also be return gigs at Notting Hill Carnival and Dimensions Festival! 2018 brought more gigs in Berlin, Paris, London (supporting Juan Atkins at Oval Space, and Omar-S at Egg) Birmingham supporting DJ Seinfeld, festival sets at Alfresco, Farr, Dimensions in Croatia and Sparks in Italy. 2019 has already brought great gigs supporting Photonz in London and Seth Troxler in Birmingham, with more gigs to come in Bilbao and Berlin soon!

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