Nathan Fake

{{Short description|English electronic music artist}}

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{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Nathan Fake

| image = Nathan Fake Paris April 2018.jpg

| caption = Fake performing at La Gaîté Lyrique, Paris in 2018

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| background = non_performing_personnel

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1983|3|3|df=y}}[https://twitter.com/nathanfake/status/969812437787709440 in the airport at 5am. happy birthday to me], twitter.com, Retrieved 2022-3-27

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| origin = Necton, Norfolk, England

| birth_place = King's Lynn, Norfolk, England

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| genre = Electronica, techno, ambient

| occupation = Producer, performer

| years_active = 2003–present

| label = Cambria Instruments, Ninja Tune, Border Community

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Nathan Fake (born 3 March 1983) is an English electronic music artist from Necton, Norfolk, England.[https://www.residentadvisor.net/news.aspx?id=17074 RA News: Nathan Fake enters his Steam Days], Residentadvisor.net, Retrieved 2016-10-16. He has released music on the Border Community, Ninja Tune, and Cambria Instruments labels (the latter a project by Fake and Wesley Matsell).

According to Fake, he started producing music in 2003{{Cite web |title=Nathan FAKE on Instagram: "My new album CRYSTAL VISION is out today! 💎👁️💎 My 6th album, it marks my 20th year of releasing music. I can't wait for you all to hear it - a very bright, breezy and joyful record and I think it's my most confident album yet. This track is 'Outsider', made with @throttleclark. A huge honour to have produced a track with an artist I deeply respect and admire - one of my all time musical heroes. I wrote the main riff and drums, and Chris added the top synth line. I hope you all love it. Listen/stream/buy via the link in my bio, and let me know your favourite tracks. Artwork by the consistently excellent @infinite_____vibes" |url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cquv-Wdo4ds/ |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Instagram |language=en}} with the release of the Outhouse EP on James Holden's label "Border Community". Over the next few years, other singles and EPs were released, in particular The Sky Was Pink, which caused Fake, Holden, and Border Community to gain popularity due to Holden's remix of the song. In 2006, Fake released his debut album Drowning in a Sea of Love which was described as similar to the Scottish band Boards of Canada by The Guardian,{{Cite news |last=Swash |first=Rosie |date=2006-02-19 |title=Nathan Fake, Drowning in a Sea of Love |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2006/feb/19/shopping6 |access-date=2023-04-13 |issn=0029-7712}} and gained critical acclaim. Over the next few years, a number of remixes of the content from this album, notably the Fortdax and Four Tet remixes of the song You Are Here, further boosted Fake's popularity, and the album was followed by another in 2009 - Hard Islands, also on Border Community.

Fake has produced several remixes, notably in 2011 a remix of Radiohead's song Morning Mr Magpie was released on the remix album TKOL RMX 1234567 after being approached by the band's frontman Thom Yorke,{{Cite news |title=Artist explains Radiohead remix |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-15385264 |access-date=2023-04-13}} and he has also remixed songs by Jon Hopkins, Clark, and Irène Drésel.

In 2012, Fake released his last album on Border Community - Steam Days, after which he founded the label Cambria Instruments with Wesley Matsell in 2014, the inaugural release being a split single between the two artists.{{cite web|url=https://www.thelineofbestfit.com/news/latest-news/nathan-fake-launches-new-label-cambria-instruments-shares-new-track-vanish|title=Nathan Fake launches new label Cambria Instruments|website=The Line of Best Fit|language=en|access-date=2019-11-06}} The following year, he released the Glaive EP on the same label.

After a period of writer's block, Fake signed to Ninja Tune and released the singles "DEGREELESSNESS / Now We Know" and "RVK" in 2016 and 2017, followed by the album Providence. Two remix EPs - "Providence Reworks" Part I and Part II, were released later in the year, featuring Overmono, Konx Om Pax, and Olga Wojciechowska. In 2018, the "Sunder" EP was released on Ninja Tune.

In 2019 two of Fake's early EPs - "Watlington Street" and "Dinamo" were reissued on Cambria Instruments.

In April 2020, Fake's fifth studio album Blizzards was released by Cambria Instruments.{{cite web|url=https://www.residentadvisor.net/news/71946|title=Nathan Fake recorded most of his new album live in one take|website=Resident Advisor|access-date=2020-02-13}} It was preceded by 2 singles - "Tbilisi" and "Vectra". The album gained critical acclaim.

In April 2021, Fake released the Sanxenxo EP on Cambria Instruments, the title track being left over from the Blizzards recording sessions.{{cite web|url=https://nathanfake.com/album/sanxenxo-ep|title=Nathan Fake Website|website=Nathan Fake|access-date=2021-06-11}}{{cite web|url=https://bleep.com/release/212898-nathan-fake-sanxenxo|title=Sanxenxo Bleep EP listing|website=Bleep|access-date=2021-06-11}} Later in the year, he released Blizzards Remixes, a remix EP.

After releasing two singles - "The Grass (feat Wizard Apprentice)" and "Vimana", his sixth album Crystal Vision was released on 7 April 2023 on Cambria Instruments.{{Cite web |title=My new single THE GRASS featuring Wizard Apprentice is out today!|url=https://twitter.com/nathanfake/status/1628363917364715523 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Twitter |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=My new single VIMANA is out today! |url=https://twitter.com/nathanfake/status/1635601222110523394 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Twitter |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=CRYSTAL VISION is out now! |url=https://twitter.com/nathanfake/status/1644280016119668736 |access-date=2023-04-13 |website=Twitter |language=en}} The album was followed by the Guiro EP on 27 October 2023, also on Cambria Instruments, preceded by the title track Guiro as a single. According to Fake, it differs in that it is mostly "more raw and club-oriented" than Crystal Vision.{{Cite web |title=GUIRO EP is out today! |url=https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cy5hi0MhYPf/ |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=Instagram |language=en}}

In December 2024, Fake released the EP Covers (From Memory) on Cambria Instruments. It contains the cover versions of ‘What You Want’ by Industry Standard, ‘Positive Education’ by Slam and ‘Attached’ by Orbital. He noticed that he discovered the tracks in his youth and that they influenced him. In terms of methodology, he covered the tracks from memory without listening to them again.{{Cite web |title=Covers (From Memory) |url=https://nathanfake.bandcamp.com/album/covers-from-memory |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Bandcamp |language=en}}

In March 2025, Fake released the single "Hypercube", a track which his Spitfire Labs "digital memory" sample pack was based on.{{Cite web |title=Hypercube |url=https://nathanfake.bandcamp.com/track/hypercube |access-date=2025-04-26 |website=Bandcamp |language=en}}