LUXE is a multi-instrumentalist composer and DJ based in London. Through her production and composition, she is rapidly making a name for herself as a purveyor of thoughtfully multifaceted music that finds life on, and increasingly, beyond the dancefloor. In the past year, her various disciplines have begun to converge – the open-ended possibilities of electronic music, the invaluable underpinning of music theory and the understated confidence afforded from years of classical practice. Production-wise, she builds up from a base of intuitiveness, tracing influences from myriad sources and developing them with both an explorative enthusiasm and an assured backbone owed to her classical training. Tracks are sketched whole, constructed live, and fine-tuned retroactively, once the full picture has taken shape. All reliance on genre confines and aesthetic trappings are foregone in favour of a steadfast bottling of inspiration and a taste for creative risk-taking. Her recent live show is a full foray into her classical and electro-acoustic influences welcoming musicians from her classical past into the fray, and beginning to build a platform for these talented individuals to present their deep understanding of their instruments. The live show will go on to be performed as support for Jon Hopkins during his UK dates this year. The real throughline remains unrestrained creativity and a deeply instilled understanding of sound. As DJMag notes “LUXE makes it look easy.”
