![]() ![]() We tried to bring it all into what we did at the start, that’s all in there somewhere. We were and still are into loads of different stuffs. ![]() Ian : Maybe even more than that actually, more than 15. You guys have been working together for quite some times (13, 14 years), with very diverse roots (Industrial, Metal, Techno…). We met two down to earth, humble yet extremely articulate and deep individuals. We sat down earlier in the afternoon prior to their set to discuss the roots and refinement of their sound, their two last albums released in the span of two years and the evolution of the project. Their knack for syncopation, their taste for the epically sinister and the overall quality of their sound (plus a very intelligent programming of the night by the festival) made it one of the highlight of the festival for me. Another notable particularity was the perfect pacing of their programming of the set where every event seemed to happen exactly at the perfect time. The experience was so powerful that it took us a good break after the end of their show to be able to appreciate anything else. They stunned the senses, bypassing the brain to go straight to the body. Every sound felt deeply thought-out to create a rhythmically diverse yet entirely hypnotic brand of pure body music. ![]() When much of the scene relies on a grittier-than-thou aesthetic Lakker’s live sounded quite expansive and full bodied. Their show at Mutek was a perfect example of this. While participating in a very central way to the aesthetic revolution around the techno scene that has been unfolding in the last few years, informed by both late 70’s/80’s industrial, EBM and the deep mark the early dubstep scene left both in it’s birthplace in the UK and Germany and spilling over to the rest of Europe Lakker represents that collision of new and old ideas perfectly yet they seem to be total outsiders and absolutely don’t fall in the trap of formatting their sound to what is hype today. ![]()
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