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Tracklisting:

1. paolo mojo – ruckus (intro mix)
2. da fresh – spaghettie groove
+ dj rooster & sammy peralta – tonight (acapella)
3. prince black sweat (cass & mangan remix)
+ ying yang twins shake it (acapella)
+ afrika bambaataa just get up and dance (acapella)
4. supafly erotic city (chris fraser electric city remix)
5. aphletik bump (t-rek remix)
6. 1gnition planet 69 (Williams remix)
7. marc romboy impact disco
+ alex alicea freak out of you (acapella)
8. Sugiurnumn star baby (axwell remix)
9. outwork elektro
10. da fresh hi score
+ fsb dr feelgood (acapella)
11. pete tong & chris cox the deep end
12. wolfmother woman (mstrkrft remix)
13. the cure fire in cairo (digitalism remix)
14. mike Monday tooting warrior (till west & dj delicious remix)
+ let there be house (acapella)
15. jeff drake & nash t feat. big slim rollover rockstar (chris fraser remix)
16. dirty south such a freak
+ missy elliot get your freak on (acapella)
17. chris fraser vs big pig breakaway 2006

Since first surfacing on the national scene in the 90s with the top 5 Australian dance chart smash ‘Burning Hands’ (alongside fellow Canberran Nash T), Chris has gone onto produce a string of solo releases, spawning contributions to dozens of compilation releases in Australia and abroad (including Ministry of Sound, Global Underground & Perfecto) and establishing him as one of the Australia’s most respected producers.

Signings to labels like Vicious, EQ Grey, Release (Canada) and Vapour, amongst others, have seen this dance music power house establish himself from an unlikely base in Australia’s national capital. And after an extended hiatus from the studio, 2006 sees him attacking production work with renewed vigour.

Remixes in the pipeline include a monster big room electro reworking of fellow Canberra act Jeff Drake & Nash T (‘Rollover Rockstar’ due on Vicious), a similarly large funked up electro house rework for Supafly (‘Erotic City’ on Central Station), Sidney (‘Nobody Move’ on Central Station) and a long awaited reinterpretation of Big Pig’s 80s classic ‘Breakaway’ set for full international release, after massive local interest including a gong as ‘Oz Cut Of The Week’ on Grant Smillie & John Course’s Overdrive show on Nova.

While studio play time is an essential creative focus, Fraser also finds time to indulge his first passion – radio (a bug caught as a youngster starting up high school radio stations). With extensive broadcast work over the years, including casual announcing and hosting ‘Mixup’ for national youth outlet Triple J (2002-2004), a weekly show on the Community Radio Network, regular contributions to Ministry Of Sound Radio on the Nova network, his daily ‘FreshCuts’ mixes on the Raw network and voice over work, it’s just another piece of the puzzle when you’re on a life long mission to share the tunes.

Production, radio and promoting all play a huge part in filling the weekday existence of a self-confessed dance music tragic, but naturally it’s in the DJ booth that you meet the real Chris Fraser.

After the obligatory stopover at the bar to worship the omnipresent god of Jager, a set from Fraser always entails an anything-goes approach; new wave house, electro, breaks, tech, indie and rock elements masterfully brought together with seamless fx and acapella work by a DJ whose every move behind the decks conveys a long and abiding passion for dance music. This is where it all comes together.

This passion has been consistently rewarded over the last 10 years with appearances around the nation and abroad, including at Home (Syd), Family (Bris), Big Day Out (Syd), One Green Apple (NZ) plus regular sets at Chinese Laundry (Syd) and Room (Melb) amongst countless others.

Flagrantly challenging the notion of sleep deprivation as a negative, since 2004 Fraser has engineered the stunning rise of Canberra’s first super club, Academy. And the sleepless nights are paying off, the multi-million dollar venue single-handedly thrusting the national capital’s nightlife to a national footing, and providing him with a world class HQ from which to base his ongoing dance music mission. Ask anyone who’s played there about the sound system and you’ll be met with a mixture of giddy enthusiasm and raw envy.

His weekly residency at the club’s flagship night ‘Love Saturdays’ sees him playing to a 1500+ strong crowd week in week out, while the venue’s partnership and his residency with local promoters Friction have seen Fridays in Canberra become home to dance music’s biggest names, and the national capital’s most ardent Jager bomb enthusiasts.

2006 sees a bunch of new original tunes surfacing, with the UK/worldwide release of ‘Warning’ and ‘Get Loose’ later in the year – two tunes that point to a maturing of the sound Fraser’s been developing over the last decade; synth-driven electro leads, a driving electro house groove, oh so dirty stabs, all with that solid main room focus that characterises the new wave Australian electro/house/rock/hybrid sound.

It’s been a long time coming, and it’s been a lot of fun getting there, but Fraser’s finally taking his well-earned place amongst the nation’s DJ/producer A-league.