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Friction (Ed Keeley) was born on 1977-05-, is a DJ and drum and bass producer. Discover Friction's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 47 years old?

Popular As Ed Keeley
Occupation DJ, record producer
Age 47 years old
Zodiac Sign Taurus
Born 1977-05-
Birthday 1977-05-
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Ed Keeley, better known by his stage name Friction, is a drum and bass producer and DJ from Brighton, England.

He runs his own record labels, Shogun Audio & Elevate Records, and has formerly presented a regular overnight show on BBC Radio 1.

Brighton-raised Friction is one of many drum and bass DJs to utilise three-to-four decks to mash up his mixes.

As a teenager Friction was busy playing and promoting events in Brighton when he began collaborating with local producers Stakka & K-Tee who were heavily involved in Andy C's Ram Records label.

1998

In 1998 Friction released his debut single "Critical Mass" under the stage name Kinnetix, attracting the attention of major labels.

Soon he was releasing tracks on renowned labels such as Valve, Tru Playaz, Trouble On Vinyl, 31 Records, Hospital, Charge and Renegade Hardware alongside his own Shogun Audio imprint.

Friction is regarded as one of the biggest DJs in the drum and bass scene, with an extremely fast rise to success.

Highly regarded for his various mix CDs and releases on labels like Hospital, Tru Playaz and Renegade Hardware.

2005

Its first release was Friction's Dare EP with the title track, Dare (Hold It Down) containing an interpolation of Gorillaz' 2005 song Dare.

Elevate Records later expanded to release music from a variety of dance-floor drum & bass artists, including Turno, Kanine and Macky Gee.

Accolades

Friction has won numerous accolades such as:

2007

One of his biggest tracks was the "Back To Your Roots Remix" on Shogun Audio in 2007.

Friction is the founder of Shogun Audio, and was a regular DJ on the BBC 1Xtra D&B M1X Show.

He is not to be confused with London-based Skam Artist DJ/producer Fricktion, who specialises in open format genres, or Bobby Friction of the BBC Asian Network.

Friction has collaborated several times with British singer-songwriter and rapper Example.

2011

Since Friction's 2011 remix of his #1 hit single "Changed the Way You Kiss Me", Example has co-written songs for Friction ("Led Astray" and "Long Gone Memory") and Friction has co-produced an album track for Example ("Snakeskin").

2012

On 10 January 2012, BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe made Friction's song "Led Astray" his Hottest Record in the World.

On Monday, 2 April 2012, Friction started presenting his own drum and bass show on BBC Radio 1 on Mondays from 2am to 4am.

The show moved to Sundays from 3am to 5am and was also simulcast on BBC Radio 1Xtra.

2013

Friction also collaborated with English electronic musician Skream in the 2013 song "Kingpin" (featuring UK grime MCs Scrufizzer, P Money and Riko Dan from Roll Deep).

2015

In 2015, Friction created an alter-ego alias under the name FineArt which would step away from drum & bass and would concentrate more on bassline and house.

His first release was a song titled "Ruffneck" which was released on Sony Music Entertainment.

A few months later would be the release of another single, this was a collaboration on My Nu Leng's "Horizons EP" with a single titled "Set It".

Later in 2015 another single called "I Don't Wanna Rush" which featured vocals from Rachel K Collier was released with a bunch of remixes.

2016

In March 2016, he launched the label "Elevate Records".

2017

In October 2017, after 6 years of building the show into a global broadcast staple of the drum & bass genre (and a previous return to Mondays from 1am to 3am), the show made one final move to Tuesdays from 1am to 3am.

Shortly thereafter, Friction announced he would 'pass the baton' to Canadian DJ/producer, Rene LaVice, who would take over as host of a new drum and bass show on 1Xtra in November 2017.

In 2017, FineArt & My Nu Leng announced the launch of their label called Maraki Records, the first release was from FineArt with an EP titled "In Too Deep" which featured collaborations with fellow record label owners My Nu Leng, and Taiki Nulight.