We had the pleasure to observe Luke (El. Practice) in the midst of a number of years for his journey by means of soulful electronica. “wantyouback.” immediately made us fall in love along with his sound, “Inform Me The place” grew to become a relentless addition to our events and his manufacturing gave a particular contact to fika’s “Out Of My Head” – a observe we merely cannot get out of our heads.
So, it was an honour to speak with the Brighton-based producer and radio host (yeah, we talked about that, too), who additionally put collectively a stunning contemporary combine for us, consisting of tracks that influenced his new single “MAD” (out this Friday) – the primary observe from his upcoming EP.
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LYNDA DAWN – Fonk StreetPlanet Giza – Arms OnMissing Hito – From The TopDKVPZ – ThrowbackTurna – Sly’s DreamSean McCabe – InfinityLucy Pearl – With out You (Berkeley Bonheur Edit)Henry Wu – ShahadaFouk – Lefty’s Bar (Brame & Hamo Remix)El. Practice & KALLITECHNIS – MADNeue Grafik – Natural FoodMind Of A Dragon – Do four Luvsalute – FortressHudson East – Bought Me (Greace Remix)
Hey Luke, how’s your life in the mean time, given the state of affairs?
Hey, surprisingly I really feel like I have been busier than ever. I spend the vast majority of my time working from residence, so it hasn’t been an excessive amount of of a change for me. I feel the most important change has been that my girlfriend has moved in throughout the lockdown interval, fortunately she’s not half unhealthy, so it’s been enjoyable!
It’s undoubtedly given me extra time to work on new music, however I feel what I’m actually gonna take from this era, is an entire load of ineffective normal data information from the 1000’s of pub quizzes I’ve accomplished!
The place’s the ‘El Practice’ coming from/headed to? What is the story behind the title?
So it’s a little bit of a ridiculous story actually. The title really comes from a personality from just a little identified American TV present referred to as “Metropolis Guys”. He was the bully on the present, so I used to make use of his title to call wrestlers I made on the outdated N64 wrestling video games. After I then began music, that was clearly the one logical title to make use of…
The place does your love for music come from?
Initially I assume it comes from the music my dad and mom used to hearken to after I was rising up, primarily soul information and many Motown. My sister then obtained the primary N.E.R.D. album and I feel that’s the primary time I heard music that made me need to know extra about the way it was really made. My style can undoubtedly be introduced again to listening to that album for the primary time.
What is the hyperlink between soul & digital music?
I feel it’s much like the earlier reply, the soul comes from the information my dad and mom had been listening to whereas the digital music got here after I began to develop my very own tastes. Combining of the 2 has at all times been the purpose for me, one thing I feel KAYTRANADA achieves higher than anyone else!
Who, would you say, influenced you probably the most?
If I needed to title three producers which can be the most important affect on the music I make, I’d say The Neptunes, KAYTRANADA, and Dilla. Anyone that desires to argue that they aren’t the perfect producers of all time, I’m keen to struggle them!
You have obtained some superb edits, did you dive into music manufacturing by means of that?
Actually it began after I was studying to play guitar. Myself and a pal wished to discover a technique to document just a few little tune concepts that we wrote. We’d document ourselves singing and taking part in the guitar after which use this bizarre drum looping software program so as to add a drum beat on prime. Throughout lockdown I really discovered my outdated onerous drive with music from round that point. I used to be additionally fully obsessive about Harry Potter, so there’s a complete undertaking of me rapping Harry Potter raps over my outdated (terrible) beats. Perhaps I ought to put that out to maintain folks entertained for the following few months?
“Out Of My Head” with fika is a observe we immediately fell in love with. How did you guys occur to collaborate?
Initially, the fellows slid into my DM’s and I immediately despatched them over some beats after listening to their music. We then obtained within the studio and wrote their observe “Free” which got here out final yr after which “Out of My Head” was one other observe which got here from these preliminary beats. We weren’t initially gonna put it out, however felt it labored properly as a cool little single.
Dropping “MAD” this Friday, which is the primary style out of your upcoming EP (no title but, proper?). Are you able to please shed some mild on it?
Yeah, so Mad is a collaboration between myself and singer KALLITECHNIS. I’ve been an enormous fan of her music for just a few years so I hit her up and requested if she’d be up for engaged on some music, “MAD” was the primary tune that got here out of that!
As for the EP, it’s kind of an analogous story, collaborating with artists that I like however hopefully, the music has progressed on from the album and I’ve additionally obtained some cool musicians on there as properly.
Your debut album Puzzles (2019) was fairly the journey, so many nice artists in there. Why did you title it like this? (or that is “the puzzle”, haha)
So the thought behind the title Puzzles was that it felt like placing that album collectively was like making an attempt to suit a puzzle collectively. It was about 2 years of labor, taking items out, bringing items in, and determining how I may really get all of it to work as one.
You additionally host a month-to-month radio present on Soho Radio. The place does your love for broadcasting come from and what’s the principle motive you are doing it?
Actually, the thought of beginning a radio present is only a platform to share music that I like, from artists that I like! I’ve at all times liked discovering new music from exhibits like Benji B, Giles Peterson, Complexion’s ‘Future Beats Present’, LEFTO and others. That is simply my tackle that. One other large issue is that it offers me the chance to speak to/interview a few of my favorite DJs, producers, and artists, actually getting to choose their brains about their artistic course of (and hopefully steal a few of their little gems of recommendation!)
Thanks for the chat, man, an actual pleasure! If there’s one actually essential factor you need to inform folks, now’s your likelihood!
I simply hope everyone seems to be staying protected, so long as all of us observe all the rules, this might be over very quickly! Additionally, try to study one thing new with all this down time you’ve obtained!