Biography
Graham Knox Frazier has been a House music producer ever since he was signed to TNT Records by Todd Terry in 1996. Currently he has 6 top 12 albums on CMJ's RPM chart and 3 top 10 that were released over the last 2 years. Graham learned how to produce electronic music by watching Mateo & Matos do their thing. Graham grew up surrounded by New York City's club and music scene. He fell in love with the sounds of Afrika Bambaattaa at The ROXY, all of the incredible music acts that performed there like LL Cool J, The Fat Boys, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five and you can't forget Rock Steady Crew, tearing up the dancefloor. At an early age he was hooked on soul, hip hop, disco and dance music.
By age 12 he bought his first pair of Technics belt drive turntables and the record collecting began, that was back in 1981. It was a great year to start buying vinyl. In 1985 he found his love of mixing hip hop and dance music and stepped it up to mixing with Technics 1200's turntables that he still has today.
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He DJ'd parties all through college and after. Moving back to NYC after college, he was a DJ for fashion designers doing music for runway shows at Bryant Park, NYC. He also did private parties and played at select clubs in Manhattan like Tattoo, The Supper Club, Doubles and private parties at The Hayden Planataruim. Nightlife in NYC in the 80's and 90's was amazing, and he spent many nights at Paladium, The Saint, The World, Danceateria, Area, Limelight, The Tunnel, Webster Hall and so many others clubs, getting lost in the music and clubbing 'til dawn.
In 1991 he met John'Roc'Mateo of Mateo and Matos. One day he went down to John's studio in the L.E.S. where he heard samples come out of a keyboard for the first time in his life. This was the magic moment. From this point on he was hooked and he has spent the last 18 years producing house and electronic music.
He was signed by Todd Terry on TNT records in 1996 bu life had other plans for Graham. In 1995 he had a falling out with his boss. He quit his job and was out of work. A few months later he began an apprenticeship for EvenTime, a TV Commercial post production house. Here he learned the art of editing TV commercials with Avid computers. Not liking the commercial industry much, but really enjoying editing, he began to work at SONY music on in house video projects. This opened the door to MTV where he received his first Emmy nomination and Emmy Award for a project featuring Brittany Spears. While working at MTV, he received an invitation to edit video for The Daily Show where he has received two more Emmy nominations.
He currently works for The Daily Show and continues to produce music at night. He is now ready to take his sound to the world through live performances and DJing. Stay tuned...
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