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you can hear a mix I made for the NorthSouthDivide podcast series here
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You can hear an hour long mix i made for the Amp Soul Generation show on Samurai FM here
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After completing a thoroughly uninspiring music production course in Leeds, 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 various obsessions with artists such as Can, Madlib, Theo Parrish and Autechre, Lukid spent many a lonely night hunched over his midi keyboard, layering up wonky beats and squeezing out woozy chords.
These solitary noodlings earned Lukid a contract with Werk Discs, with whom his debut album 'Onandon' was released in March 2007.
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"Lukid – Onandon LP
THE LITTLE BABY JESUS OF INSTRUMENTAL HIP HOP BREAKS OUT OF SHORT TROUSERS AND PRODUCES AN INSTRUMENTAL MAGNUS OPUS OF MESSIANIC PROPORTIONS
Release date: MARCH 2007/ Werldwide Distribution: Baked Goods/ File under: Ulrtamental Hip Hop
It's time to get your teenage kickdrums right through the night with the Little Lord Fauntleroy of electronica, LUKID.
Weighing in with a debut album of epileptronica and hiccup-hop this prodigious talent from North London is so youthful, we've had to hastily cobble together a child protection policy just to release it. Sounding like the awkward teenage son of a civil partnership between Dabrye, Theo Parrish and Dougie Howser MD, Onandon is an unforgettable greatest hits collection of a misshapen teenage: replete with dusty loops, off kilter riddims and unidentified clicky-clacky noises.
While most teenagers struggle with cracking voices, strange bodily changes and the ever-present lure of guiltily beating themselves off to the lingerie section of the Argos catalogue, Lukid was stuck to his computer screen pleasuring himself in an entirely different manner. In fact, during sleepovers with his schoolmates, Lukid would arrive with a sampler discreetly tucked between the pages of his regulation copy of Escort, and would secretly sneak off to the toilets to edit together drum loops from obscure folk records while his friends played endless bouts of Extreme Soggy Biscuit.
And while you might expect most young producers these days to be either knocking out tomytronic drill and bass or inane bopalong indie in regional accents, Lukid's voice is a far cry from the norm. There's a shocking maturity to the tracks which bely his youthfulness: like seeing a baby reciting Baudrillard or a chinchilla juggling swords. This is no freak sideshow for pimple-popping. Onandon is chock full of timeless instrumental slow-chug classics which might even have your Dad tapping his foot along to and remarking "ooh, that's got a good beat."
So how did Werk's A & R department discover Lukid? We're not telling: but let's just say a clever internet alias and bag of Werther's Originals can work wonders these days. And now, after years of careful grooming, the Kaspar Hauser of hip hop has emerged from his cellar, blinking into the light of the world's gaze. Will you take him into your home?"