Freq Nasty on Tour does not deliver the same show that he would had he been playing a residency back in the UK.

"When I play abroad I play a lot different from when I play in London," he readily admits. "Outside of London there's a real pressure thing on DJs to play to the five local DJs in the box, it's like, 'Yeah man, pull out the most bangin' new tunes, pull out the dubplates, come on let's just have a hammering set of tunes I've never heard before' kind of thing. And that's cool you can play to the five DJs in the box but a lot of people who come haven't heard breaks hardly at all and they definitely haven't heard stuff that's two, three, four years old. When I come out to somewhere like Sydney I give them something that will freak them out a bit but also try to make it a bit of an introduction…When I play in London I can play whatever the fuck I like and I can go all over the place."

Freq Nasty, aka Darin McFayden, has long been rued as a leader of the breaks movement - an innovator that produces songs and beats that sit as comfortably in the Discman as they do on the dance floor. A Freq Nasty set is intense and dark but in a way that quite comfortably involves all that are witnessing it. With a signature of amazingly deep and textured baselines, Freq Nasty tracks are unmistakable to the point that his music could amount to a subgenre all by itself.

Darin explains that this is in part due to growing up outside of the Brit scene, in Fiji and New Zealand.

"Growing up down here, I avoided the whole scene thing, let me be a lot more free with my music," he says.

Like T-Power and B.L.I.M, Freq started out at drum 'n' bass label SOUR before moving on to SOUR's sister label for breaks, Botchit & Scarper. But he insists that, "For me it was never from the drum 'n' bass angle. I was taking the breaks and the basslines but it was never about making hardcore, for me it was more like speeding up funk rather than slowing down the drum 'n' bass".

Freq's first success came with his 1997 debut release on Botchit, "Boomin Back Atcha", a mixture of sci-fi sounds and truncated vocals.

"It seems to be one that doesn't go away, people still mention it. It's one tune I actually still do like. I don't work that well anymore I don't write beats like that anymore so its quite weird going back to".

Vocals, although gradually gaining acceptance, are still a bit of a dirty word in the breaks world. Freq Nasty has ignored the conventions and achieved success regardless.

"You look at garage and they're using all those cheesy vocals, and that's cool cause that's their thing. But I want vocals that stand up on their own. I like good hip hop vocals, and MCing vocals and if I get the opportunity to work with people who are doing that kind of thing I'd use it, but its not necessarily something I'd advocate doing just to get something into the charts."