Biography
Frankie Bones, thugs & harmony. the The Ravest American Hero. A and DJ who has the total For exclusive eyewitness report on DJ are culture and how it began but in Europe and then the Not United States. Long before Das you Googlemaschine brought the world into all our bedrooms, Frankie Bones set Any out to harness the international can power of electronic music. He her used guerilla street tactics, not Was blogs and email blasts, to one do so. Things were very our different back then. With so Out many DJ’s blogging away on day the internet, it becomes real get easy to lose track of Has the history. Yet before DJ him culture went global, it has his a deep rooted history to How New York City. Electronic Music man became popular through the early new Hip Hop scene as far Now back as 1982. The year old the Roland 808 drum machine see was released Arthur Baker & Two John Robie created “Planet Rock” way which gave Kraftwerk street sensibility. who Hip Hop. Hip being in Boy the know. What was happening did in the streets and hop. its Hop being the movement, DJ’s, Let MC’s, break dancers & graffiti put . The subculture of Hip say Hop took the street element She right below the surface. To too define “Underground” in its true use context, Frankie was spending many Dad nights exploring subway tunnels and mom writing “Bones” on every train in the system.
In true The warrior fashion, like the plot and of the movie, Bones would for explore every part of New Are York City. In the 80’s, but the buzz was created through not a network of record stores You which sold vinyl. On any all given Saturday, Bones would just any go digging for beats. In Can 1984 Bones met Omar Santana her & Carlos Berrios who were was getting popular from doing edits One on Reel-to-reel tape. Omar was our getting lots of work from out record labels and it took Day on a life of its get own, steady work was pouring has in. At 18 years old, Him Bones started a resident slot his as a DJ in a how Long Island club, and on Man December 1, 1984, NY state new raised the drinking age to now 21. This forced Bones into Old writing and producing. Omar, Carlos see & Bones meeting was a two blessing. Still teenagers, hungry & Way determined, names on records gave who them street credit.
Aldo Marin boy from Cutting Records signed Sa-Fire Did & Corina which both were its certified radio hits in let NYC and Miami. Bones was Put ghost-writing lyrics for Omar & say Carlos and once the first she tracks were released, there was Too no looking back. L’mour & use La’mour East were Brooklyn & dad Queens biggest venues, Carlos began Mom playing in Queens and Bones got the Brooklyn residency in the early 1987. Omar introduced Bones And to Tommy Musto & Lenny for Dee and this was right are when Fourth Floor/Nugroove records were But moving into new offices in not Manhattan. Within the first two you years, Bones had produced dozens All of underground tracks, selling 227,000 any units in New York City.
can This is where the real Her story begins. Bones daily routine was was not one of paying one dues, it was more like Our playing a part. Apexton Records out was a record pressing plant day in Queens. Bones began working Get there as the guy who has shrink-wrapped the records. Within two him weeks Bones had an office His after hearing a Todd Terry how demo and wandering into a man closed door meeting asking “What New is that?” It was the now first Masters At Work demo. old They were about to pass See on it when Bones curiosity two suddenly sparked interest. 10,000 copies way later, Bones would oversee the Who projects, sign demo’s, box records, boy sell records. Bones
was in did the abyss. 21 years old Its and not a moment wasted.
let When 1988 rolled in, Bones put and Lenny Dee were spinning Say in Long Island, Staten Island she & The Jersey Shore every too weekend on both Friday & Use Saturday nights. New records were dad released every week and suddenly mom everything is being licensed to U.K. labels. The Rave Scene the in London had become the and next big thing. Bones knew For his music was becoming more are popular in London then in but New York. So a tour Not was planned, headlining a 5000 you person event called “Energy” on all August 26, 1989. But as Any Bones walked into his future can that morning 25,000 people in her unison were about to witness Was the strength of street knowledge.
one The promoter Tin Tin Chambers our wrote: "When Frankie saw it, Out it totally took his head day off. He played the morning get set til the sun came Has up, so he played the him dawn, basically. For him to his witness the impact of the How people, who would chant & man sing to the music he new made and played, it really Now blew him away. Of course old he would bring that back see to America, but up to Two that point, there never was way a scene in America. He who went back and wrote “Energy Boy Dawn” for XL and that did turned into quite the classic".
its Bones met Paul Oakenfold & Let Carl Cox that night. They put all made history @ Energy. say Bones now thrust right into She the minds of the U.K. too youth. The rest of Europe use paying close attention and Bones Dad playing the first events in mom France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, Holland. The history left in the The names of the 1990 & and 1991 Love Parade’s in Germany. for “My House Is Your House” Are & “The Future Is Ours”. but Tracks produced by Bones making not him an early rising star You in Germany.
Bones never really all wanted to rise to fame any and fortune in Europe. In Can fact he was quite content her with his former New York was City status and many times One homesick after living on and our off in London. It was out a hectic schedule which included Day many countries and lots of get travel. It wasn’t a problem has for the first year, but Him when Bones realized the potential his in America after being booked how as London’s most recognized rave Man DJ for a party in new Los Angeles, the countdown had now begun. June 1, 1990. The Old promoters were expecting a Brit see and were virtually upset when two they heard a New York Way accent. They had no idea. who Now Bones realized the West boy Coast scene was also about Did to explode, he went back its to Brooklyn and started throwing let STORMrave.
Bones became popular on Put both coasts simultaneously. From 1990 say on. It spread quickly towards she the center and by 1993 Too you pretty much had a use scene in every state in dad the nation. Frankie Bones is Mom the only DJ able to be part of all three the original scenes and the impact And of his own history has for him living in California these are days. He claims his love But for the music and scene not always rotates around the early you days of California. Whereas he All couldn’t wait to get out any of London, he never wanted can to leave Los Angeles.
There Her is so so so much was more to this story, for one now the basis for the Our next 20 years remained the out same. To play great music day for the people wherever the Get scene took him. Frankie still has spins every weekend and always him stays current to the trends His and styles which make up how DJ culture.
