“A fine balance between ruthless functionality & experimentalism,” Luke Alessi says of his current creative output.
Influenced from an array of different styles, Luke’s music sits in its own lane, not to be pigeonholed into any conventional genre. Instead, intentionally blurring the lines between house, electro, indie dance, afro, prog & techno via synth lines that bend your mind, hooks that get stuck in your head for days and underlying, funky grooves that keep your body locked in on the dance floor.
Striving to create music that's designed to take you elsewhere, even if just momentarily, it’s no surprise to see his tracks circulating the rounds of ID groups as they pop up in new corners of the world. The past year has seen releases on Buttress Recordings, Thick As Thieves and two on Mobilee, receiving support from Dino Lenny, John Digweed, Magdalena, Black Coffee, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Musumeci, Lehar, Lee Burridge, WhoMadeWho, Hernan Cattaneo and more.
As a DJ, Luke has made a name for himself in Australia while his tracks are played the world over. 2022 has seen plays at Pitch Music & Arts, while sharing the stage with names like Stephan Bodzin, Gerd Janson and Ben Klock in Sydney, an unforgettable Sunday afternoon with Audiojack in Melbourne, and multiple coveted plays in the cage at Revolver Upstairs. The back end of the year sees Luke playing at Sydney's Lost Paradise Festival as well as supporting RÜFÜS DU SOL on their forthcoming Australia tour alongside John Hopkins.
Close to Luke (and RÜFÜS DU SOL’s) heart is his forthcoming remix of their track Devotion - played by the guys from Tulum to Mykanos to Ibiza and to Brooklyn. Luke however, feels equally proud of the moments he shares this track in more intimate spaces - be it Revolver Upstairs or a renegade show under a bridge in Melbourne’s docklands.
“It’s funny because when I first found out that I would be supporting RÜFÜS DU SOL on their Australian tour I was so hyped up on emotion that I decided I needed to go for a run to process it all. I thought it would be a good idea to listen to the entire Surrender album during the run and just as I was about 6 or 7km in ‘Devotion’ came on and it all just hit me at once. With the significance of the news I’d just been given that I’d be supporting these Australian icons,I started to get really emotional (and even shed a few tears while passing them off as sweat drops from my eyeballs to people walking by).
It quickly became my favorite track on the album and then a few months later they asked me to remix that very same track which just seemed to be so serendipitous. It turned out to be one of the fastest remixes I’d ever written. Everything felt so effortless and I sent the first draft off to the boys for feedback and they liked it pretty much straight away, slotted it straight into their DJ set to give it a test run in Tulum a few weeks later and have been playing it ever since….” - Luke Alessi
