Luke Lund is a self-taught producer, art director and label head (, , ). Though for the past 12 years his repertoire has drawn references anywhere from club culture's obscure fringes and caustic industrial clatter to musique concrète discretion and knuckle-dragging rock it all feeds into his sense of sonic intensities and improvisational, organic production values. Lund's work is fixated on close examination of timbre and texture, at sword's point with passive listening. More recently he has shifted into employing contextual methods of capturing and processing sound, twisting into bewildering new forms.
Lund's thrill-seeking live shows capture the same sense of provocation and unpredictability. After a decade of stage-aversion he has found a catalyst in challenging both himself and audience by approaching each performance as a completely unique project. There's a glint of danger involved in his off-the-cuff freeform ventures into uncharted waters, keeping everyone involved on their toes. Lund has toured Europe and released thisquietarmy, (), , among others. Lund has releases with , () and he records in the group with .
Having a fascination towards sounds at a tender age whether from the mining town he grew up in; its tranquil archipelago nature; or leftfield electronics of scifi soundtracks he started dabbling in audio manipulation soundscapes in 2008. Discovering that abstract film sound design could be considered music in its own right was a revelation that sparked permanent interest in noise, sound art, dub techniques and experimentalism. 2010 he founded for his efforts and subsequently ventured into rhythmic electronic music, remixing and mastering. 2012 he retired his disparate aliases and reconciled them under the shorthand Luke Lund. Well over a hundred releases in and counting, Lund launched sister label in 2015 which focuses on traditional rock band instrumentation exploring unorthodox structures. 2017 he expanded to physical editions with sub-label , and debuted his songwriting project .
Name Vars
- L. Lund
- Lukas Lundén
- Luke
- Luke Lund
- Luke Lund (The Hero)
Aliases
- The Maunsell Signal
- Light Overhead
- Shokushu
- Kontrol Deprivator
- Life Penalty
- Nostromo 180286
- Crat¤s
- Lataus
- Bentso
- Mind/Body
