Nick Fryer, born in Portsmouth, England, is a British electronic dance music disc jockey and producer known professionally as Nick Sentience. He began DJing at 15 and formed the production group Sentience with Martin Dawson and Tom Neville, releasing the debut CD An Eye For An I on Nukleuz in 1998; tracks from the album later appeared in the video game Carmageddon II: Carpocalypse Now. After the group disbanded, Fryer adopted the name Nick Sentience and signed with Nukleuz at 18, releasing the "Digital Dialogue / Deeper" and "Purple Twilight / Music Rush," both in 2000. He also collaborated with DJ Phil Reynolds on "Instru(mental)", which was named hard dance tune of the year and Ministry of Sound single of the month. In 2001, at age 21, Nick Sentience was ranked 74th in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs. He toured globally, performed on the Tidy stage at Creamfields in 2007, and released full‑length albums Universal Language (2004) and Syncronized (2011), which received critical acclaim from Beat Magazine.
