Nathan Fake

Nathan Fake is an English electronic music artist from Necton, Norfolk, England, who has released on Border Community, Ninja Tune, and Cambria Instruments (ran by Fake and Wesley Matsell).

According to Fake, he started producing music in 2003 with the release of the Outhouse EP on James Holden's label "Border Community". Over the next few years, other singles and EPs were released, in particular The Sky Was Pink, which caused Fake, Holden, and Border Community to gain popularity due to Holden's remix of the song. In 2006, Fake released his debut album Drowning in a Sea of Love which was described as similar to the Scottish band Boards of Canada by The Guardian, and gained critical acclaim. Over the next few years, a number of remixes of the content from this album, notably the Fortdax and Four Tet remixes of the song You Are Here, further boosted Fake's popularity, and the album was followed by another in 2009 - Hard Islands, also on Border Community.

Fake has produced several remixes, notably in 2011 a remix of Radiohead's song Morning Mr Magpie was released on the remix album TKOL RMX 1234567 after being approached by the band's frontman Thom Yorke, and he has also remixed songs by Jon Hopkins, Clark, and Irène Drésel.

In 2012, Fake released his last album on Border Community - Steam Days, after which he founded the label Cambria Instruments with Wesley Matsell in 2014, the inaugural release being a split single between the two artists. The following year, he released the Glaive EP on the same label.

After a period of writer's block, Fake signed to Ninja Tune and released the singles "DEGREELESSNESS / Now We Know" and "RVK" in 2016 and 2017, followed by the album Providence. Two remix EPs - "Providence Reworks" Part I and Part II, were released later in the year, featuring Overmono, Konx Om Pax, and Olga Wojciechowska. In 2018, the "Sunder" EP was released on Ninja Tune.

In 2019 two of Fake's early EPs - "Watlington Street" and "Dinamo" were reissued on Cambria Instruments.

In April 2020, Fake's fifth studio album Blizzards was released by Cambria Instruments. It was preceded by 2 singles - "Tbilisi" and "Vectra". The album gained critical acclaim.

In April 2021, Fake released the Sanxenxo EP on Cambria Instruments, the title track being left over from the Blizzards recording sessions. Later in the year, he released Blizzards Remixes, a remix EP.

After releasing two singles - "The Grass (feat Wizard Apprentice)" and "Vimana", his sixth album Crystal Vision was released on 7 April 2023 on Cambria Instruments. The album was followed by the Guiro EP on 27 October 2023, also on Cambria Instruments, preceded by the title track Guiro as a single. According to Fake, it differs in that it is mostly "more raw and club-oriented" than Crystal Vision.

Discography

Albums
 Drowning in a Sea of Love (20 March 2006) – Border Community
 Hard Islands (27 April 2009) – Border Community
 Steam Days (3 September 2012) – Border Community
 Providence (10 March 2017) – Ninja Tune
 Blizzards (3 April 2020) – Cambria Instruments
 Crystal Vision (7 April 2023) - Cambria Instruments

Singles and EPs

 Outhouse (2003) – Border Community
 Watlington Street EP (2004) – Saw Recordings
 The Sky Was Pink (2004) – Border Community
 Dinamo EP (2005) – Traum Schallplatten
 Silent Night (2005) – Border Community (7" release)
 Drowning in a Sea of Remixes (Remix EP) (2006) – Border Community
 You Are Here (2007) – Border Community
 Iceni Strings (2012) – Border Community
 Paean (2013) – Border Community
 CAMBRIA01 (Split 12" with Wesley Matsell) (2014) – Cambria Instruments
 GLAIVE (2015) – Cambria Instruments
 DEGREELESSNESS / Now We Know (2016) – Ninja Tune
 RVK (2017) – Ninja Tune
 Providence Reworks - Part 1 –  Ninja Tune
 Providence Reworks - Part 2 –  Ninja Tune
 Sunder (2018) – Ninja Tune
 Sanxenxo (2021) – Cambria Instruments
 Sandstone (2021) – Cambria Instruments
 The Grass (2023) – Cambria Instruments
 Vimana (2023) – Cambria Instruments
 Guiro EP (2023) – Cambria Instruments

Remixes

 Avus – "Real (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Border Community (2004)
 Perc – "Closer (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Premier Sounds (2004)
 DJ Remy – "Scrambled (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Additive Records (2004)
 Steve Lawler – "Out at Night (Nathan's Night In)" – Subversive Records (2004)
 Tiefschwarz – "Isst (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Fine Records (2005)
 Shocking Pinks – "Dressed To Please (Nathan Fake Remix)" – DFA Records (2008)
 Vincent Oliver – "Clouds in The Haeds (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Lo Recordings (2008)
 Starting Teeth – "Venom (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Creaked Records (2009)
 Grasscut – "Muppet (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Ninja Tune (2010)
 Jon Hopkins – "Wire (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Double Six Recordings (2010)
 Walls – "Gaberdine" – Kompakt (2010)
 PVT – "Light Up Bright Fires (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Warp Records (2010)
 Radiohead – "Morning Mr Magpie (Nathan Fake Rmx)" (2011)
 Neon Jung – "Delirium Tremens (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Magic Wire Recordings (2012)
 Clark – "Growls Garden (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Warp Records (2013)
 Dorian Concept – "Draft Culture (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Ninja Tune (2015)
 Ultraísta – "Party Line (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Partisan Records (2019)
 Dominik Eulberg – "Dreizehnspecht (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Studio !K7 (2020)
 Irène Drésel – "Chambre2 (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Room Records (2020)
 Christian Löffler – "Roth feat. Mohna (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Ki Records (2020)
 Damian Lazarus – "Into The Sun (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Crosstown Rebels (2020)
 Sophie Hutchings – "Orange Glow (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Mercury KX (2020)
 GoGo Penguin – "Open (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Decca Records France (2021)
 The Micronaut – "Archery (Nathan Fake Remix)" – Ki Records (2021)
 Field Works – "Station 5 Review - Nathan Fake Remix" – Temporary Residence (2022)
 BLOODMOON, Bearcubs – "All In Place - Nathan Fake Remix" – Eat Your Own Ears (2022)

Compilation appearances

 "The Sky Was Pink" - Fear & Loathing 2, Mixed by Luke Slater - Resist Music (2004)
 "Numb Chance" – Elektronische Musik: Interkontinental 5 – Traum Schallplatten (2006)
 "Laluna" – #savefabric – Fabric Records & Houndstooth (2016)

Collaborations
 "Lava Flow" (collaboration with Milky Globe) (2006) – LoEB

Television
 The track "Grandfathered" was used in an ad for the Motorola Pebl phone and in the television programme Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe.
 The track "You Are Here" was used in the CSI: Miami episode "Miami Confidential". The FortDax remix is used as the theme tune to BBC Four's Newswipe with Charlie Brooker and Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe.

References

Living people
English record producers
English electronic musicians
1983 births
People from Breckland District
Progressive house musicians
Musicians from Norfolk