If you’ve not been keeping up, Fred again – born Fred Gibson – is one of those names that’s quietly everywhere. Maybe you’ve heard his voice layered into a track without knowing it. Maybe you’ve danced to one of his edits at 3am and only clocked it days later. He’s a producer, vocalist, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist – a modern-day polymath with a sampler and a keen ear for emotion. Now, following the announcement of his solo Asia tour, he’s set to bring that instinct centre stage. Stops include South Korea, Singapore and, yes, Bangkok.
At the core of his work is a kind of sonic diarising: voice notes from friends, fleeting conversations, fragments of lived experience turned into dancefloor elegies. His tracks – leave me alone, Turn On The Lights again.., Rumble – feel as much like personal memos as they do chart staples. This is a man who once won two Grammys for Actual Life 3 and still manages to make music that sounds like it was recorded in the Notes app at 2am.
And then there are the collaborators. The list reads like a who's who of genre-defying innovators: Skrillex, Baby Keem, Skepta, Future, Anderson .Paak, Four Tet. He moves between worlds – rap, house, garage, glitch – with the kind of fluidity that doesn’t beg attention but earns it.
He’s not selling nostalgia, nor spectacle. What he offers is something quieter but stickier: intimacy in high definition, connection disguised as club music.
He’ll be at UOB LIVE on July 21. You can register now for early access – pre-sale begins on June 3, general sale on June 5 – but if you’re already thinking about it, you probably don’t need persuading. Registration is now open at drop.cobrand