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Lakker

Debut album 'Ruido' out 5th October on Lazybird

About Me

LAKKER are Ian McDonnell and Dara Smith who make everything from abstract glitchiness to rampaging gabba using only a couple of laptops, the occasional microphone and their considerable musical smarts. They have been mainstays on the Irish electronic music scene since their inception in 2003. Described in the Journal of Music in Ireland (JMI) as "one of the best electronic acts in Ireland", their output has ranged from electro-acoustic soundscape pieces to mashed-up death-metal-sampling breakcore: a diversity reflected in their releases to date on labels such as Risc Records, Go Away Recordings and the online EP ’Cosas’ with The Alphabet Set. Live, they have played alongside a plethora of acts like Andrew Weatherall, Tim Exile, The Bug, Aaron Spectre, Pamelia Kirstin, Chevron and Cylob, and have made a number of appearances at the DEAF, Mor, Leechrum and Mantua festivals. Their long awaited debut album ’Ruido’ is being released on Lazybird on 5th October. _____________________________________________________Downloa d the Cosas EP free from www.alphabetset.net ............................................................ .............."Lakker bring a dark melodic angular rhymical monster to bear ’pon this release, with the assurance that not one Amen break even got a sniff of what they were up to while buried away creating this beast of ultimately beautiful horror... harrowing church bells, worshipping at the heels of rave; chambers that resonate with classical music during the day are overrun, twisted and turned over to the darkside by night.. " -Alphabetset.net May 2006 ______________________________________________________Interv iew @ Mantua 2006: ______________________________________________________

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/23/2006
Band Website: lakker.com
Band Members: Ian Mc Donnell and Dara smith
Influences: Aphex twin, Squarepusher, Timbaland, Arvo Part, Chris Clarke, Autechre, Meshuggah, The Bug, Shitmat, Venetian Snares, Old School Rave, Gyorgy Ligeti, Pan Sonic, Sean Carpio, Tim Berne, Tom Rainey, Plaid
Sounds Like: Electronic music.
Record Label: Alphabetset/Lazybird
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

New Ep Download for free.

Herro We did a series of remixes for 4 four tracks for the net lable acroplane.co.uk there all in a similar pulsey vain and there free so download and have a listen. just go to there site to downloa...
Posted by Lakker on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:20:00 PST

decal remixes online

Lakker remixs of Decal tracks up on    www.decal-artifacts.com/   there free so have a big speaker listen    ...
Posted by Lakker on Wed, 07 May 2008 03:37:00 PST

Thanks....

Thanks a million to all who came down to the album launch last night. Your support is very much appreciated. Cheers.
Posted by Lakker on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 05:21:00 PST

’Ruido’ album launch

The launch night for our debut album 'Ruido' will be on in Crawdaddy on Tuesday 9th October, at 8pm sharp. Support is from Decal. We'll also be doing an instore gig on Sat 6th October in Tower at...
Posted by Lakker on Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:42:00 PST

’Ruido’- our debut album

Our debut album, entitled 'Ruido' is finally out on 5th October. It will be available in all good record shops and online from itunes. Sound.
Posted by Lakker on Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST

live on-off audio visual show...

Next Tuesday sees a very special one-off audio visual show from Lakker (back as a duo for one last time until 2008), with special guest Somadrone, at the Project Arts Centre. Lakker will be performing...
Posted by Lakker on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:19:00 PST

Three full lakker shows...

Lakker will play as a duo again for three gigs only! Dara is back from his travels for a short period before jetting off again til 2008. The gigs are: 30th May - Boom Boom Room - w/ Yellow Swans4th Ju...
Posted by Lakker on Wed, 16 May 2007 11:28:00 PST

debut album

we are currently putting the finishing touches on our debut album to be released soon. watch this space....
Posted by Lakker on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 08:10:00 PST

the bug

ian from lakker plays a dj set this friday with the bug and herv. crawdaddy, 11pm, 15e.
Posted by Lakker on Wed, 31 May 2006 08:12:00 PST

online EP....

New online Ep from Lakker released today... Body: Our Ep 'Cosas' had just been released online. Download it for free today from www.alphabetset.net. Details Below. Cheers!LAKKER 'Cosas'ABCNET005 |...
Posted by Lakker on Tue, 30 May 2006 07:31:00 PST