Nick Fryer (born 1979 or 1980), better known as Nick Sentience, is a British electronic dance music disc jockey and hard dance music producer from Portsmouth, England. He is known for his fusion of music genres including techno, hard house, and trance.[3] Several of his releases have charted in the United Kingdom.[4]
Nick Sentience | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Nick Fryer[1] |
| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 44–45)[2] |
| Origin | Portsmouth |
| Genres | Hard house, tech-trance |
| Occupation(s) | Record producer, Disc Jockey |
| Labels | Nukleuz |
Career
editNick Fryer grew up in Portsmouth, England, and began DJing at the age of 15. He was originally part of a music production group called Sentience[1] with Martin Dawson and Tom Neville; the groups debut CD An Eye For An I was released on Nukleuz in 1998, with some tracks from the album eventually appearing in the video game Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now.[5] The group disbanded soon after, and Fryer adopted the group's name as his own.[1] At age 18 he was signed to Nukleuz.[3] He went on to tour worldwide, and in 2001, at the age of 21, was voted in at number 74 in the DJ Mag top 100 DJ rankings.[3][6]
In 2001 he collaborated with DJ Phil Reynolds to produce the track "Instru(mental)", which was voted hard dance tune of the year and named as the Ministry of Sound single of the month.[3] In May that same year a DJ mix by Sentience, Nukleuz Bomb, was featured as the cover CD of Muzik magazine.[1] In 2002 he collaborated with Steve Blake to compile and mix the Reactivate Energize album on the React label, which peaked at #84 in the UK official compilations chart.[7][8]
In 2007 Sentience played the Tidy stage at Creamfields.[9] He has released a number of long players, including Universal Language and Dance Planet, followed by in 2011 the album Syncronized.[10] Beat Magazine reported all three as "critically acclaimed".[11]
Discography
edit| Title | Artist | Year | Peak UK Singles[4] |
Peak UK Dance[4] |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Easy on the cut | Nick Sentience and Ed Real | 2000 | 94 | 28 |
| Digital Dialogue | Nick Sentience | 2000 | 25 | |
| Freedom | Nick Sentience | 2000 | 87 | 33 |
| Techno State | Nick Sentience & Harry Diamond | 2000 | 89 | 26 |
| Instru(mental) | Nick Sentience & Phil Reynolds | 2001 | ||
| Vision | Nick Sentience | 2001 | 89 | 16 |
| Ride the Groove | Nick Sentience | 2001 | 100 | 26 |
| Frantic EP | Nick Sentience & Phil Reynolds | 2001 | 84 | |
| Back 2 Front | Nick Sentience & Phil Reynolds | 2001 | 91 | |
| Flash | BK and Nick Sentience | 2002 | 61 | 9 |
References
edit- ^ a b c d "Nukleuz Bomb Mixed By Nick Sentience". Muzik. May 2001. p. 44. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Godskitchen at Gas Nightclub, Sydney". Resident Advisor. 2001. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Nick Sentience · Biography". Resident Advisor. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ a b c "NICK SENTIENCE songs and albums - full Official Chart history". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 28 December 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now, Interplay Entertainment, 1998
- ^ "biografie · Nick Sentience - DJ". partyflock.nl. 18 December 2012. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "REACTIVATE ENERGIZE – VARIOUS ARTISTS - Official Charts". Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "Reactivate Energized - Various Artists - Album - AllMusic". Allmusic. Archived from the original on 9 March 2024. Retrieved 9 March 2024.
- ^ "Creamfields 2007 line-up revealed". NME. 29 March 2007. Archived from the original on 20 March 2022. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ A Hickey (2021). "Nick Sentience". Beat Magazine. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
- ^ "Nick Sentience". Beat Magazine. No. 1339. 26 September 2012. p. 37. Archived from the original on 10 May 2024. Retrieved 10 May 2024.
External links
edit- Nick Sentience discography at Discogs
- Nick Sentience at AllMusic