Conceived in a Subaru Impreza outside the Stretford end and raised in a city that had adopted Bleep and Bassline just as readily as London breakbeat and garage, Lukas Wigflex embodies the hybrid spirit of UK Electronic music.
Indeed, two decades since founding a world-renowned party and festival in his native of Nottingham, it’s impossible to talk about club music in the UK without mentioning Lukas’ characteristic ‘Rudeboy Techno’: an approach to selection which interprets the sound via the lens of those definitively British mutations, and threads together wobbly and wonky club tracks across diverse BPMs.
Whether he plays this rubbery, thumping techno then or the sort of low-slung chugging plates one only collects warming-up illegal warehouse dancefloors, Lukas offers a contemporary take on club sonics that actively defy dance music categories. Utilising liminal, mind-altering rhythms he is a DJ both honest as well as unique, who now takes his unwavering vision to some of the worlds’ most exceptional clubs and festivals. If you’ve caught him in the dance, you’ll know what we’re talking about, Duck.