In a chat hosted by Ezra Collective\u2019s Femi Koleoso and also featuring a group of young musicians, a lot of ground was covered. Perhaps the most impressive portion was when Fred was tasked with putting a new song together in just 13 minutes. He had a vocal and some choice sounds to start with, but he was still started a long way from the finish line. The end result wasn\u2019t quite a full song, but it sounded fantastic, and Fred likely could have gotten it all the way with not much more time allotted.<\/p>\n
As for the actual conversation, Fred had some fascinating nuggets to share. Early on, he discussed how having multiple outlets for his music diversifies what he\u2019s able to do and how much he can release, saying:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cHaving the record like USB<\/em> where it\u2019s just tunes that I\u2019m making for my USB, it doesn\u2019t need to be some deep album statement always. And then I\u2019ve also got albums, so there\u2019s a few different like avenues I get to put tunes out in. Or like, make an ambient record with Brian [Eno], or something like that. From, like, 20 to 28, I reckon probably 0.0001 percent of the things I made came out, and now I reckon 1 percent comes out, so that\u2019s great.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nAlso on the note of productivity, he spoke about how making music every day, regardless of how he\u2019s feeling, is a critical part of his creative process:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cOne thing that\u2019s I\u2019m really happy to have learned the lesson of is\u2026 Let\u2019s say you feel rubbish one day or one week or one month, and you keep showing up, and you make something that you don\u2019t\u2026 you\u2019re showing up for the sake of showing up and just trying to get some ideas down, and you\u2019re not feeling good about it. And you just leave it there, and then in a month\u2019s time or whatever, you\u2019re feeling a bit better and you listen back to some of those ideas and you\u2019re like, \u2018Actually, this one is good.’\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
He added, \u201cI\u2019ve now had this enough times where something I truly love has come out of a moment that felt totally unmagical. Something I truly love and I\u2019m really connected to in a way that feels really meaningful, has come out of a moment that didn\u2019t feel that at all. And so then at that point, you\u2019re like, \u2018Okay, great, I might as well just keep showing up, then.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Finally, he offered some more advice, which boils down to keeping it simple:<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIf you are someone who\u2019s more production-based, I would really recommend trying to commit to two synths and five plug-ins that you\u2019re going to use for the next four years and just save yourself all of that headspace and all of that wasted time comparing whether this compressor sounds slightly better than this compressor. Like\u2026 fix the chorus. It doesn\u2019t matter whether the [laughs]\u2026 I really, really feel this.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
There\u2019s a lot more than that in the illuminating conversation, so check out the full video above.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uproxx.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Few people have been as busy as Fred Again.. lately. In September, he started a rollout of new songs for his ever-evolving USB project, releasing fresh tracks and delivering high-energy live shows on a weekly basis. Even when the initial run finished, Fred went ahead and announced another one, set for early 2026. Even amid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2209315,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[426656,354958,25292,22491,21800],"class_list":["post-2209314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-ask-it-anyway","tag-fred-again","tag-home-page","tag-instagram","tag-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Fred-Again-Talks-With-Instagram-For-A-Ask-It-Anyway.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2209314"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2209316,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2209314\/revisions\/2209316"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2209315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2209314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2209314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2209314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}