“I think there are many children who’ve got used to being in the house and being with their parents most of the time … they’ve kind of forgotten that the world is out there, and it’s fun to get outside and be active. “We’re at a point where it could go in either direction,” says Helen Dodd, a professor of child psychology at the University of Exeter (she led the study on the age children were allowed to play outside unsupervised). So you’re not letting kids out until they’re hitting puberty? That’s unprecedented.” “That’s such a giant leap, or step backwards, in one generation. Kids spend four to seven minutes outside in unstructured, unsupervised time a day here in America.” She points to a B ritish study that found today’s parents were allowed to play outside unsupervised from the age of nine. “I was concerned that it’s becoming weird to let your kids outside without either an adult, a cell phone or a GPS of some sort. She wondered what it might be doing to a generation of kids and wrote a book, Free-Range Kids, which she has just updated, as well as launching Let Grow, an organisation that promotes children’s independence, and has free resources for schools and parents. Puzzled by people’s horror, she became interested in how parents had become so risk-averse and were monitoring their children’s every move. In 2008, she was described as “ the world’s worst mom” after she wrote an article about letting her then nine-year-old son find his own way home on the subway. A complete DJ with a seemingly innate understanding of his danceoor, highly adept technical nous and a wide-rangingcollection of essential records, Fosky has been blowing away the crowds at festivals and clubs around the world since 2010.Fosky’s converging inuences of art, club culture, seductive rhythms and eclectic musicality make him a production and DJforce to be reckoned with.Lenore Skenazy with her son Izzy at around the time she was called the ‘world’s worst mom’. Notonly did the release mark the start of Crosstown Rebel’s most acclaimed year, but it also kick started Fosky’s rise to prominenceand also launched a fruitful partnership with Guti.His penchant for rhythmic complexity and poignant, sweeping melodies are a constant throughout Fosky’s productions whichwere later to go on and grace prestigious labels such as Steve Lawler's Viva Music, Carl Cox’s Intec and more for CrosstownRebels. His careertook shape almost immediately as his early production, the divine “Shiva” gained the attention of Damian Lazarus, leading to aninclusion on the Crosstown Rebels under’s Get Lost 4 mix and eventually a full EP alongside fellow South American Guti. Thelure of electronic music soon beckoned though and by 2010, Fosky had landed in the musical melting pot of Berlin. Hisowncreativeness was cultivated in his early stages of development and fostered itself in an initial career as a photographer. Brought up in a creative environment, he was immersed in culture from a youngage, with particular exposure to traditional Argentinean Tango, contemporary visual art and avant- garde theatre. Fromthe outside his success comes as no surprise. Killer productions for Crosstown Rebels, Desolat, Intec, VIVa MUSiC and Circus alongside standout DJ performancesat Sonar and WMC propelled him from burgeoning apprentice to the real deal in just a couple of short, hedonistic years. DJ and producer Fosky evolved from rising talent to essential player on the modern house scene with both speed andpersonality.
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