Influences: Lukid

I love everything Robert Turman has done, and Flux is an album that I would often come back to while I was making Tilt. He just has a great ear for a loop and a knack for making the ‘minimal’ feel nice and full. This track is 12 minutes long but still feels too short.

I discovered the record label Radioactive Lamb a few years ago and it was one of those nice moments where you work your way through a discography and everything is killer. Just really very good early 90s North London eccentric excellence. This is one of the weirder tracks on the label, and to me feels ahead of its time for 1991. Again it’s a perfect little loop that is EQd and messed around with just enough to keep you on your toes.

Another all time favourite album of mine, and another big inspiration for me while making Tilt, particularly for its use of samples. He has a way of making things sound organic but also processed and mechanical, a combination that I love and have tried and failed to achieve over the years.

I first heard this 15 years ago (!) when it was sampled by Dabrye in his amazing King Midas Sound remix. I was led to the source and it’s not left my iPod since. Again it’s a track that achieves that kind of ‘machine warmth’ that is hard to put your finger on. It’s a constant reference for how to achieve something powerful with maximum minimal efficiency.

Another old favourite (that’s my youtube account there that I uploaded it to 14 years ago 😎), and an example of how to combine disparate elements to create something original and beautiful. Obviously Panda bear is a master of that, and he has the added bonus of being able to sing his heart out over the top. Magic.

Re-Clip is a bandcamp discovery, I think they may be Finnish but that’s all the info I have. I’ve played a few Re-Clip things on my NTS show in recent years, but this one has stuck with me. It has a unique mood, a sludgy guitar riff I could (and probably have) listen(ed) to for hours.

Whoever Aci_edits is they know their way around a loop. This album is a masterclass in loop management. i.e, make a sick loop, jostle around the elements a bit, mess about with the EQ, and create a lovely little bed for the listener to lie in for 1-7 minutes. Deceptively complex and beautifully simple. An album that made me realise that I’d be trying to do too much, which maybe sounds like an insult but is far from it.

Toy, like Radiactive Lamb, was one of those discoveries where I felt like I’d found some kindred spirits, despite it being some 30 years after the fact. A japanese label full of gold and madness and inspiration.

First played to me by my older brother a long time ago, this is a piece of music I still go back to when looking for inspiration for a certain feeling, one that I can’t quite put my finger on. Just a great use of sounds and rhythm and melody really, which I guess is just a description of what music is, but there you go.

This genuinely might be the song I have listened to most in my life. It’s a Playboi Carti track that never got released because of (I think) sample clearance problems, which meant that the bootleggers had to get creative. This version, the version that I got obsessed with, is I believe from a phone recorded video of a live show, the audio of which was looped and beefed up with some drums by another fan. The original track is amazing as it is (I’d say his best ever vocal?) but something about the distant crowd noise and the reverb from the room takes it to another level for me. It is haunting and heavy, and I use it as an example of how reworking something, chipping away at it, making a photocopy of a photocopy can – sometimes, but not always! – elevate it.