Fleck

Artist bio

There are two artists with the name Fleck:
1) A dubstep/dub/jungle producer from Athens, Greece

FLeCK is an electronic music producer and Dj, signed to Dread Recordings and Serial Killaz Recordings.

Born in Athens, Greece, started his music journey in the early 90's by producing breakbeat and jungle music, passing through dub and hip hop. His first official release goes back in 1999, a 12” single called “Cryogenics” released on Evil Recordings, which had a great review from the famous UK music magazine Knowledge.

In 2009 published his debut album “Dub Muse” and since then, his music has been released on various record labels around the world such as Scotch Bonnet, Six Degrees records, ODG, Chopstick Dubplate, Liondub International, Roots, Kartoons, Lion’s Den, Nice Up! and Serial Killaz to name a few, and counts over 50 releases in the past few years.

FLeCK’s music is characterized by a roots reggae dub vibe mixed with futuristic jungle breaks and fat bass sounds. It has found its way into the record boxes of the likes of Public Enemy’s DJ Lord, Rusko and many other big Djs in the game around the world such as Congo Natty, Jumping Jack Frost, Ray Keith, 2BadMice, Altern8, Nicky Blackmarket, as well featuring on Diplo’s Mad Decent blog and receiving massive worldwide radio support from London’s legendary Kool Fm to BBC 1Xtra and BBC Asian Network. Some of his tunes reached the first position in the TID and iTunes Top100 Reggae & DnB charts.

He has collaborated ,written and remixed tunes for artists like Zion Train, Mungo’s HiFi, Congo Natty, Chopstick Dubplate, Aries, JSTAR, Soom T, Speng Bond, Numa Crew, Dj Vadim, Nanci Correia, Ancient Astronauts, Chezidek, Blue Hill, Lutan Faya, Demolition man, Mistafire, Parly B, Ed West and many others.

The last years he has traveled with his music in many places around Europe like Austria, UK, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Poland, Lithuania, Romania, Greece and has shared the stage with names like Horace Andy, Alborosie, Congo Natty, Aba Shanti-I, Zion Train, Dub Pistols, Mungo’s Hi Fi, Stand High Patrol, Rodney P, Prince Fatty, Ed Solo, Iration Steppas and many others.

Counts gigs in more than 75 European cities and has played in festivals like Outlook, Boomtown, Glastonbury, Seasplash, Overjam, Wee Dub, Incubate, Drop Beats Not Bombs, Vibes, Let it Roll and Legalize Protestival.

In 2015 he has been nominated as Best Breakthrough Producer in the Jungle Awards held by We Love Jungle.
In 2017 reached the 3rd position as Best Breakthrough Dj in the Jungle Awards held by We Love Jungle in London.

Social Media Links
www.soundcloud.com/fleckathens
https://www.facebook.com/fleckathenz
http://fleckathens.bandcamp.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/spotwerk


2)A Wigan guitar band from the late 90s.
Fleck is a Wigan guitar band from the late 90s, famous for Brendan O'Leary's (singer) quip of being a "piss poor indie band".

The band released a 4 track demo and an album that received some critical acclaim, but an unimpressed public wanted nothing more than shambolic life performances.

Most of the bands repertoire was a combination of O'Leary's sometimes surreal, but always melodic lyric lines and Matthew Dolan's (guitar) perfect pop sensibilities.

Other members included Kieron O'Leary (drums) Simon 'L' Peirce (bass) and Phil Rigby (guitar).

Earlier founding members included Ian Nightingale (guitar) and Andrew Thompson (bass). But these individuals left following artistic differences and bright solo careers.

The band split in 1999. Brendan O'Leary continues to write and perform in a number of bands and as a solo artist. Matthew Dolan has become a popular video producer and has directed a number of successful videos. Phil Rigby now plays with the Stray Dog Cafe and works with the collective of Manchester. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.