Dj no name biography

American rapper

Musical artist

Fatimah Nyeema Warner (born September 18, ), known professionally as Noname, is an American rapper. She began rapping and performing slam poetry in , and gained wider recognition in for her appearance on the track "Lost" from Chance the Rapper's mixtape Acid Rap. She released her debut mixtape, Telefone, in to critical acclaim. Her debut album, Room 25, was released in and received further acclaim.

Noname is one third of the musical supergroup Ghetto Sage with rappers Smino and Saba. Since , she has also run the Noname Book Club, which focuses on radical texts by authors of color.

Early life

Noname grew up in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago. She was raised by her grandparents until she was in middle school. Her grandparents were entrepreneurs, as was her mother, who owned an Afrocentric Bookstore. When she returned to live with her mother, she had a new sibling and she and her mother did not get along.

As a teenager, she listened to blues musicians Buddy Guy and Howlin' Wolf, and spent time in her mother's bookstore. She started writing poetry after taking a creative writing class in high school. As a teen, she spent time in the YOUMedia project, a space for young artists to create and network then based at the Harold Washington Library. There, she befriended local talents including Chance the Rapper. Experimental rapper LUCKI also attended the sessions.

Career

– Early works

Noname's interest in poetry led her to compete in local open mics and slam poetry competitions; she took third place in Chicago's annual Louder Than a Bomb competition. Noname then started to freestyle rap with friends, collaborating with local Chicago artists including Chance the Rapper, Saba, and Mick Jenkins.

In , she appeared on Cha

Martin Freeland started out releasing electronic dance music in the late eighties.  One of his early inspirations had been meeting the Pet Shop Boys while he was working at EMI and seeing how successful they became as ‘ordinary guys making electronic music’.

Freeland’s earliest releases were acid house and techno but with the track ‘Way Out West’ (Spiral Cut ) Freeland made what is widely recognized as one of the earliest trance tracks ever made.  Although by today’s standards its acid house origins are clear, in its day it was a revolutionary release that would serve as one of the foundation stones for the early years of the new emerging genre of trance music.

Throughout the early nineties Freeland honed his sound towards a sound which began to be refered to as Goa Trance.  He contributed to a number of releases by an early Goa Trance act called the Infinity Project but had his Goa Trance breakthrough in with the release of ‘Teleport / Sly-Ed’ (Dragonfly Records ).  'Teleport' almost instantly became a classic of Goa Trance, a blueprint for the evolution of the sound.  The mixture of fast tempo thumping kick drum, rasping bass riff, squelching acid lines and big dark lead line were classic Man With No Name and thrust Freeland into the trance mainstream. 

Legendary DJ and producer Paul Oakenfold licensed ‘Teleport’ and another classic Man With No Name track ‘Sugar Rush’ to his heavily Goa-influenced and seminal mix album ‘Perfecto Fluoro’ (Perfecto ).

Freeland released the debut Man With No Name studio album in ‘Moment Of Truth’ (Concept In Dance ) featuring tracks such as ‘Sugar Rush’, ‘Floor-Esssence’ and the down tempo classic ‘Azymuth’.

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British DJ and producer

Musical artist

Martin Freeland is a British psytrance artist, record producer and DJ, who has performed under the pseudonym of Man With No Name since He is best known for the singles "Teleport" and "Floor-Essence", both of which appeared in the UK Singles Chart.

Music career

Early work: –

Freeland's career began in the mid s, working as a producer and remixer for various dance artists such as Belouis Some and Mirage. In the late s he began producing original material under the names of Positiv Noize, Perfectly Ordinary People and Pisces, with the latter experimenting with the sound of techno with the single "Take Me Higher".

In Freeland released the single "Way Out West" under the name of Man With No Name. The track sampled lines from the western film, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, and was backed with the acid house track "From Within The Mind of My ", which was later featured on Richard Sen's compilation This Ain't Chicago: The Underground Sound Of UK House & Acid – on Strut Records.

Further singles in the early nineties, such as "Geddit?/ Something" and the EP "From Within", echoed the sound of Detroit techno and British rave. It was during this time that Freeland attended one of the first UK trance parties Concept in Dance, where Paul Oakenfold introduced producer Ian St Paul to Freeland and his music. Following this, Freeland produced several tracks under the MWNN title for two Concept in Dance compilations, Tribal Science and Digital Alchemy. One of these tracks was "Sugar Rush", which would later be released in remixed form as a single.

Goa years: –

Having refined his soun

Martin Freeland, also known as Man With No Name or by the initials M.W.N.N., is a UK goa/psytrance DJ and producer, one of the very defining artists in the genre having a unique sound of heavy bass lines, raw grooves and explicit melody lines.

Originally a techno producer, Martin’s long and illustrious career began way back in when he appeared with several tracks on the collection “Urban Acid” (released by, a sub-label of Polydor, Urban) that sold over copies. He followed this by releasing several EPs with techno tracks, but in the early 90’s he changed his sound to trance.

In he released his first full-length album “Moment of Truth”, on the early trance label Concept in Dance, including several goa trance and melodic trance tracks, such as “Sugar Rush” which also was released as an EP, including the heavy goa anthem "Teleport", which instantly has become a classic.

Two years later in , Martin released his second album “Earth Moving The Sun” on Paul Oakenfold's label Perfecto (East West). The mix of heavy goatrance and melodic trance tracks is still there, but the sound had become less techno influenced, more melodic based and experimental towards house.

Two EPs was released from this album, both melodic trance tracks; “The First Day (Horizon)” with vocals from Mark Gardener and “Vavoom!” including house remixes by De Niro.
In the year the third album “Teleportation” was released, on Dragonfly Records. Martin had returned to the label he left in the middle of the 90’s. "Teleport", "Sly-Ed", "Lunar Cycle" and "Neuro Tunnel" are tracks that were previously released and reappear on this album.
Martin had also returned a bit to the sound of his first album that is more techno influenced thicker and heavier.

The latest album “Interstate Highway” was released in on Dragonfly Records. The sound of his music had taken a radical change towards the psytrance scene, lighter grooves and transparent sounding textures