Luke Abbott

Infusing electronic dance music with colour and subtlety is an easy thing to completely botch, and when someone gets it right it's worth saying something about it. Luke Abbott is someone who's been getting it right for a long time now, through individualistic synth programming, good musical knowledge, and an impressionistic approach that conjures up landscapes teeming with mushrooms.



Luke's got a new album coming out this year following a pretty blinding E.P. that featured the track below. The combination of dancefloor intensity and unusual arpeggio patterns makes this one of my favourite tracks of the year, and it was rather exciting to hear HMC dropping it in his celebrated warm-up for Robert Hood at Cuckoo a couple of months back.