Freddy Todd Makes Waves with New House EP “Liquefaction”

For those of you who are accustomed to Freddy Todd’s wonky deep bass music, be prepared for a whole new and breathtaking side of his project with his new release of the Liquefaction EP. Taking his unique style and combining it into some absolutely electric house tracks, this EP is nothing short of incredible. We have the pleasure of premiering our favorite tune off this compilation “Jelly Brain” which is what we feel is the perfect example of this holistic combination of sounds. Using deep house vocals and beats alongside wubby textures and synths that all mesh together in this track, it perfectly showcases all we love from Freddy Todd. This one is definitely not something you should be sleeping on! Let’s melt our brains and take a deeper dive into why “Jelly Brain”, a certified bop.

“Liquefaction” is my first dedicated four-on-the-floor bass, acid, and tech house dance music hybrid release. A Detroit native, I’ve been saturated with techno and house my whole life but never dove head first into the gridded world of more minimal dance music writing until moving back to the Motor City in 2019 (after a decade of living in California and North Carolina touring and writing strictly psychedelic bass music). Right after moving back, the pandemic forced me to stay put and incubate with the heartbeat root sounds of the city of Detroit aka the home of techno. With four tracks, starting out with a 303 bassline acid techno crawler featuring Detroit’s latest transplant resident superstar, my homie, Wreckno on vocals (also a Michigan native), the rest of the EP rounds out flooding us with addictive melodies, creeped-out vocals, and slamming bass house rhythms. This spring and summer I’m tryna dance.” -Freddy Todd

1. What has been one great experience you’ve enjoyed being an artist so far and why?

The privilege of getting to see the fruits of my labor blossom in real time in the physical realm, for example getting an extremely respectable time slot on a highly coveted and professional music festival and the privilege of then getting to control what 10,000+ people get to hear, feel, and experience all at once, which is usually original music I made in my humble home bedroom studio – that without the human web, the full circle of that privileged experience of high caliber performance and art expression would simply not exist. That’s a long way of expressing gratitude and saying thank you to my fans haha. If you’re looking for a specific experience answer, a handful of those moments include performing at: Shambhala fest, Red Rocks in Colorado, Detroit Masonic Temple, Bonnaroo, Electric Forest, Palladium Times Square, and most recently Okeechobee Music Festival. 

2. If there was one thing you could change for the betterment of society, what would it be and why?

Eradicate homelessness and hunger. We have the means and technology. Our current systems are just set up to utterly fail. This is a disgrace upon mankind. The fact we’re trying to go into space and yet have not yet solved these at home earthen issues is untenable. However, the way for-profit forever-wars are waged by the dollar aka the military-industrial complex, we see that humanity’s current top priority is greed. So maybe that’s one thing I would change. Less greed, more peace and love, man.