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John Bennett, known as DJ Freak, is an English hardcore music DJ and producer. He is credited as one of the first pioneers of the industrial hardcore/speedcore sound.
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John Bennett, known as DJ Freak, is an English hardcore music DJ and producer. He is credited as one of the first pioneers of the industrial hardcore/speedcore sound.
DJ Freak has released over 50 albums to date. He was one of the early pioneers of hardcore and speedcore music in 1992. He has been released on his own two labels, Boneheddz and Hard of Hearing, and other labels such as Killout, Epitaph and Deadly Systems. In 2011, he began releasing side project material in a different style, dark spacey minimal looped abstract techno. He releases these as free downloads, on his pages on SoundCloud and Bandcamp. Freak released a track on Scottish label Motormouth Recordz compilation "Motörheadz - The Album" in 2012 and also a digital only EP on the same label in 2014. [1]
In the early 1990s, DJ Freak founded the label Hard Of Hearing. It was geared towards subgenres of electronic music such as gabber and hardcore. Practically every release on this label was a DJ Freak release, however, other artists did make appearances on these albums. His most recognised and seminal work was released on Killout. The Hard Of Hearing label ended in 1998.
In 2009, DJ Freak released an album called Hard Of Hearing Reloaded.
| Year | Release |
|---|---|
| AKA Noise Emission EP | 1994 |
| Abduction EP | 1995 |
| EP Vol. 1 | 1995 |
| EP Vol. 2 | 1995 |
| EP Vol. 3 | 1995 |
| EP Vol. 4 | 1995 |
| Heavy Metal Poisoning Pt.1 | 1995 |
| Heavy Metal Poisoning Pt.2 | 1995 |
| Industrial Trauma | 1995 |
| Behold The Dreamer | 1996 |
| EP Vol. 6 | 1996 |
| Dead On Arrival | 1996 |
| Natural Born Killa | 1996 |
| Wenn Wir Hart Bleiben, Ueberleben Wir... | 1996 |
| Alien Raves, Drug Crazed Rioters And Man Eating Machines E.P. | 1997 |
| Untitled (vs Skullblower) | 1997 |
| DJ Misfoster Od Groedpistolen EP (vs Noize Creator) | 1997 |
| The Anti Nazi Pack (vs Noize Creator) | 1997 |
| Untitled (vs Smarti) | 1998 |
| Le Freak Est Mort?? | 1998 |
| Extreme Hardcore Shit (vs Extrement) | 1998 |
| Untitled (vs Senical) | 1998 |
| Untitled (vs Senical) | 1998 |
| Unknown Territories | 1999 |
| Fuck Denny Lee | 1999 |
| Hicks Rools Man | 1999 |
| Analogue Terror | 2000 |
| Hard Funk EP | 2000 |
| Untitled | 2000 |
| The Rapture EP | 2001 |
| Lost Worlds EP | 2004 |
| Killout Revisited | 2005 |
| World Collapse EP | 2008 |
| Rot In Hell E.P. | 2009 |
| High Supply E.P. | 2010 |
| Nuclear Fission EP | 2010 |
| The Beauty Of Harmony Aka Dark Room Distorzion | 2011 |
| The Archion Intrusion EP | 2011 |
| Welcome To The Future EP | 2011 |
| Programmed To Destruct Ep (vs 5th Raider) | 2011 |
| Control The Infinite EP | 2011 |
| Big Time E.P. | 2011 |
| Deeper Darkness EP | 2014 |
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