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徹底的に退屈な音楽技術の学位取得に失敗し意気消沈したLukidは大きな決断を迫られながらノース・ロンドンに帰郷。担当教授の疑念を払いのけ冷酷非情な音楽業界でのキャリアを追い求める？世の習いに屈しておぞましい就職活動を始める？或いは、祖父のようにアングラな社会主義者の世界に身を委ね、ブリキの弁当箱から飯を食らいながら友達を”同志”と呼ぶ？
Lukidは決断をする代わりに、24時間不安を抱きつつも昼間はテレビ漬け、夜はビートづくりにひたすら没頭する。Can, Madlib, Theo Parrish, Autechreのようなアーティストに熱中し触発されながら、たった独りで夜な夜なmidiのキーボードの前にかがみ込み、しなびたビートを重ねクラクラするようなコードを絞り出した。一つのジャンルでは飽き足らず、Lukidはエレクトロ・ミュージックにあらゆるフォームを取り入れた。例えば、Dillaっぽいヒップホップの押し潰された鈍いビート、デトロイト・テクノのリズム、ほこりっぽいBasic Channelの音の世界といったように。
これまで2枚のアルバムと1枚のEPをLondon’s Werk Discsよりリリース。それらはBenji B, Mary Ann Hobbes,Rob Da BankらDJから支持され、またMatthew Herbert, Kode 9, The Bugといった大御所からも絶賛される。Lukidの両親はずっと何とか彼を家の外に出そうとしてできなかったが、彼の音楽が大好評だったため状況は変わった。今、彼はGlasgow からGdanskのベニューでライブを行い、またDomino レーベルのThe Notwistのヨーロッパツアーの一部に参加。最近ではバルセロナの Red Bull Music Academyにも招かれ出演している。
After failing to complete a thoroughly uninspiring music technology degree, a despondent Lukid returned to North London with some big decisions to make. Would he defy his tutor’s doubts and pursue a career in the cut-throat music industry? Would he surrender to the inevitable and begin the dreaded job-hunt? Or would he follow in his grandfather’s footsteps and live his life in the Socialist underworld, eating his lunch from a tin box and referring to his friends as comrades?
Lukid decided that these decisions could wait, and instead immersed himself in a world of daytime TV, late-night beat making, and 24-hour existential dread.
Inspired by obsessions with artists such as Can, Madlib, Theo Parrish and Autechre, Lukid spent many a lonely night hunched over his midi keyboard, layering up wilted beats and squeezing out woozy chords.
Too impatient to stick to one genre, Lukid twists his output through all forms of electronic music, from the squashed thump of Dilla inspired hip hop, to the rolling clunk of Detroit techno and the dusty soundscapes of Basic Channel.
So far he has released 2 albums and an EP on London’s Werk Discs, earning support from DJ’s including Benji B, Mary Ann Hobbes and Rob Da Bank, and praise from such luminaries as Matthew Herbert, Kode 9 and The Bug.
The positive response his music received has led to something Lukids parents always struggled to achieve, getting him to leave the house. He has now performed in venues from Glasgow to Gdansk, supported Domino act The Notwist on a leg of their European tour, and was recently invited to attend the Red Bull Music Academy in Barcelona.