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Matt Reisinger's year is off to one hell of a start. The artist better known as Fr33dback recently played every day of Okeechobee Music & Arts Festival, and the Tampa-based producer made his Gasparilla Music Festival debut the next weekend.
It's been just over a year since he went 100-percent freelance (Reisinger is also a sound engineer), and now he's released a new single — "Focal Point" — plus an accompanying video shot on a Phantom Flex4K at 2,000 frames per second. Most motion picture is captured at 40-60 fps, by comparison, and some popular YouTube-ers like The Slo Mo Guys will film things like bubbles bursting at 18,000 fps.
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The clip for "Focal Point" — directed by Joe Guerra — finds Fr33dback destroying things like bottles, night stands and even a synthesizer in super slo-mo. Thankfully the synth is not the Juno 60 he recently acquired from Alan Palomo of Neon Indian fame.
Resinger found the synth — which Palomo used on "Polish Girl" and other Neon Indian songs — on reverb.com and had to scoop it up. Now he gets to use it in his own studio where he's helped Bay area acts like Sun Signs, Bangarang, Polyenso and Millenium Youth all work on their sound.
Watch the clip above, and check out the audio on Soundcloud. Listen Reisinger discuss his process, synth-shopping and more in the Cigar City Radio episode below.
This article appears in Apr 5-12, 2018.