The Story
Frederick John Philip Gibson was born in 1993 and grew up in Balham, South London. At sixteen he was invited into an a cappella group run by Brian Eno, an apprenticeship that led to collaborating on two albums with Eno and Karl Hyde in 2014 — and to a decade of quiet ubiquity as a producer and songwriter for other people.
That behind-the-scenes run included George Ezra's UK number one 'Shotgun' and the bulk of Ed Sheeran's No.6 Collaborations Project, and in 2020 it made him the youngest-ever winner of the BRIT Award for Producer of the Year. Then he stepped out from behind the desk: the Actual Life albums (2021–2022) stitched voice notes, FaceTime clips, and friends' names into diaristic dance music, each track titled after the person sampled inside it.
The ascent that followed was steep even by dance-music standards. A July 2022 Boiler Room set in London became one of the series' most-watched broadcasts; February 2023 brought a sold-out Madison Square Garden; that April he closed Coachella alongside Skrillex and Four Tet. At the 2024 Grammys, Actual Life 3 won Best Dance/Electronic Album and 'Rumble' — with Skrillex and Flowdan — took Best Dance/Electronic Recording.
The 2024 album ten days carried the diary format forward: ten songs, ten days, the same insistence that the most ordinary recorded moments — a friend's voicemail, a kitchen conversation — can hold up a room of thousands.
