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Why we feature this artist House music with an awkward grin Freaks turn a house groove into a place where unexpected things can happen. Luke Solomon and Justin Harris built a partnership around rhythmic curiosity, studio play and a preference for sounds with s…

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Electronic, house

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The story of Freaks

Why we feature this artist

House music with an awkward grin

Freaks turn a house groove into a place where unexpected things can happen. Luke Solomon and Justin Harris built a partnership around rhythmic curiosity, studio play and a preference for sounds with some personality left in them. The Creeps became the best-known public introduction to a much broader body of work.

The partnership and the label

The duo began making music together in the 1990s, with Music For Freaks becoming a home for their own recordings and a wider set of like-minded productions. Their artist-controlled catalogue describes a shared enthusiasm for instruments inside electronic music and for an independent way of working. That combination helps explain the sound's looseness: the rhythm can be precise without every musical detail becoming predictable.

The Creeps (You're Giving Me) comes from that original recording world, with Luke Solomon, Justin Harris and Stella Attar credited in the writing. A later version, The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor), carried the material into the British Top 10 in 2007. The hit gives one clear view of the production, but the underlying track and its earlier editions reveal a different amount of room around the vocal and the groove.

Following the less obvious route

Freaks' own account of the 2015 Let's Do It Again releases makes the distinction between the wider partnership and the crossover single explicit. The catalogue includes album work, extended tracks and revisions that reward attention to texture and development. The Beat Diaries and later rework collections give the producers room to revisit their own material without treating the first released arrangement as a final answer. Their most interesting records create a small sense of instability inside a dependable pulse: a sound can bend, a voice can enter at an odd angle, and a repeated figure can gradually become stranger. The dance floor remains the reference point, but it does not dictate a single acceptable mood. That willingness to keep an unusual idea alive is what makes the Freaks name more revealing than one successful remix.

Essential releases

2003

The Creeps (You're Giving Me)

2007

The Creeps (Get on the Dancefloor)

2015

Let's Do It Again Part 1

Sources and further reading

Freaks — artist-controlled catalogue and partnership history

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Freaks/Music For Freaks — original Let's Do It Again release account

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Defected — The Creeps original writing and 2003 label credits

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The Creeps — original performer and production credits

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