Frankie Bones is an American techno and house music disc jockey from New York City. He is best known for bringing the rave culture to the United States after playing at a hangar party in the UK during 1989.
He got his first inspiration from his fathers vast record collection after his father was murdered. Later on, after he had started producing records, he was offered a gig to play for 5,000 people in England on the strength of his compositions. Arriving at the event, the projected attendance had gone through the roof and Frankie played for 25,000 people as the sun came up. Being profoundly moved by the experience, he brought it back to Brooklyn with his series of "Storm Raves".
At one of these parties, a fight broke out and Frankie got on a speaker, screaming at the fighters "If you don't start showing some peace, love, and unity, I'll break your fucking faces". With the subsequent discussion of this event on the Usenet newsgroup alt.rave, Respect was added to the three virtues Frankie was speaking of, creating the hippie-esque raver credo of PLUR: Peace, Love, Unity, and Respect.
Singles
- And Here's Another Human Distraction (12") – Remains
- Bump Your Head (12") – Bellboy Records
- Climax Control (12") – Hyperspace
- Call It Techno (12") – JEP Records
- Trapezoid (12") – Fabulous
- We Can Do This (12") – Groove World
- Einstein E=mc2 (12") – Drop Bass Network
- Furthur (12") – Drop Bass Network Communique Records
- My Peak (12") – Logic Records (US)
- Technolo-G (12") – ESP-SUN Records
- B2B (12") – ESP-SUN Records
- Dirty Job (12") – X-Sight Records
- High I.Q. (2x10") – Hyperspace
- In The Socket (12") – ESP-SUN Records
- The Candle EP (12") – High Octane Recordings
- The Mutha Fuckin Good Life (12") – Underground Construction
- The Way U Like It (12") – Bellboy Records
- We Call It Tekkno (12") – Bash Again!
- Baseball Fury (12") – Sonic Groove
- Masters Of The Hardgroove (12") – Hard To Swallow
- My House Is Your House (12") – Bash Again!
- Electrophonic (12") – E Series
- Filthy Dirty Animal Crackers (12") – Blueline Music
- Remains 10 (12") – Remains
- The Falcon Has Landed (12") – Hard To Swallow
- The US Ghetto Selecta (12") – Pro-Jex
Albums / DJ mixes
- DJ Techno Mix Vol. 1 (CD) – Beast Records
- Global House Culture Vol. 2 (CD) – ESP-SUN Records
- Computer Controlled (CD) – X-Sight Records
- Dance Madness And The Brooklyn Groove (CD) – BMG
- United DJs Of America Vol. 6 - Frankie Bones - Brooklyn, NY (CD) – Moonshine
- Army Of One (CD) – System Recordings
External links
Last updated: 08-28-2005 22:57:08
