Nick Fryer (born 1979 or 1980), better known as Nick Sentience, is a British electronic dance music disc jockey and hard dance music producer from Portsmouth, England. He is known for his fusion of music genres including techno,

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, and trance. Several of his releases have charted in the United Kingdom.

Career

Nick Fryer grew up in Portsmouth, England, and began DJing at the age of 15. He was originally part of a music production group called Sentience with Martin Dawson and Tom Neville; the groups debut CD ''An Eye For An I'' was released on Nukleuz in 1998, with some tracks from the album eventually appearing in the video game '' Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now''. The group disbanded soon after, and Fryer adopted the group's name as his own. At age 18 he was signed to Nukleuz. He went on to tour worldwide, and in 2001, at the age of 21, was voted in at number 74 in the DJ Mag top 100 DJ rankings. In 2001 he collaborated with DJ Phil Reynolds to produce the track "Instru(mental)", which was voted hard dance tune of the year and named as the

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single of the month. In May that same year a DJ mix by Sentience, ''Nukleuz Bomb'', was featured as the cover CD of ''

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'' magazine. In 2002 he collaborated with Steve Blake to compile and mix the '' Reactivate Energize'' album on the

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label, which peaked at #84 in the UK official compilations chart. In 2007 Sentience played the Tidy stage at Creamfields. He has released a number of long players, including ''Universal Language'' and ''Dance Planet'', followed by in 2011 the album ''Syncronized''. ''Beat Magazine'' reported all three as "critically acclaimed".

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sentience, Nick Living people British electronic dance music DJs Musicians from Portsmouth 21st-century British musicians Year of birth uncertain