Somewhere between the edge of a deep groove and the pull of a distant moon, Frankie Deep carves out his sound. Born and raised in Terracina, Italy, he's been orbiting the decks since he first laid ears on a beat at 12, though he didn't get his hands on his own turntables until 18. That patience shaped him and his music, which doesn't rush, doesn't shout; it just pulls you in with a quiet gravity.
Now, Aureon Records, Liguria's steady beacon for deep, tech, and tribal house, marks its fifteenth release with Center Of A Fragment, a three-track journey through vast, spatial landscapes and grounded, percussive intensity. The record opens with Distances (Original Mix), a piece that drifts like a satellite on the outer edges of perception. Spacey pads, an evolving deep groove, and a rhythm section that's hypnotic but never static. There's a slight echo of Space Dimension Controller's Love Beyond The Intersect here; music that tells stories of distant worlds, wrapped in energy that feels both cold and intimate. Then comes the title track, Center Of A Fragment. This one doesn't float, it moves. A driving rhythm, honest and pulsing, locking into a groove that feels like a moment of clarity inside a blur. It's the record's gravitational center, the point where motion and meaning click into place. Imagine a spacecraft mid-journey, engines humming steady, no destination in sight but a clear sense of direction. Closing it all is Southern Hemisphere, where things start direct and rhythmically heavy, like a club built on a space station, but slowly unfold into something grander. Harmonies stretch out like constellations over a warm, rolling bassline, with percussive details that nod to the southern rhythms of planet earth, that shaped dance itself since the very start of human kind. It's grounded and cosmic all at once; the kind of composition that makes you look up at the night sky and feel like the music might just be part of the fabric of it all. And, as always with Aureon, the cover art sets the tone: an invitation to stare into the vast unknown, not with fear, but with curiosity, like simple human beings gazing through a window, searching in the openness of space something they'll never quite reach but can't stop chasing. This is Center Of A Fragment by Frankie Deep or, more simply, just Aureon 015. No overstatements, no grand claims. Just deep, thoughtful, rhythmically complelling music built for minds that wander and feet that follow.