Seliga provides high energy straight from Warsaw! Well known in Poland's dance and electronic underground, Lukasz Seliga delivers as a Producer, DJ and Live Act. The good news: He contributes a deliciously unique blend of progressive house, dub and trance influences to our Broadcasting Service. The better news: He joins us tonight at Disco Zwei with a DJ Set and a closing B2B with Chris Gerber.

Computer Toys Broadcasting Service: Seliga (05/24)

Łukasz Seliga needs little introduction to anyone even roughly following Poland’s dance and electronic underground, as his contributions – as a live performer, producer, remixer or DJ – embellished the better part of its story. Between his solo endeavours under the SLG moniker, and projects such as Casiopepe or Seltron 400, he has long traversed genres and sounds, aptly and joyfully, always staying true to his distinct musical vision rather than being prompted by periodic shifts of fancy.
On Sideways, his newest EP outing for Trance-Atlantyk, Łukasz appears under his own name – Seliga – for the first time, thus restating his identity and underlining the honesty of his craft. In a time when dance music tends to be driven increasingly by nostalgia, Seliga takes but a sip, ultimately eschewing it. As a result, the music we hear is more of a direct expression of his own abiding purpose – a lived, rather than re-lived experience, an auditory utopia, sung in a language the artist is deeply anchored in, but whose expressive qualities he seeks to enhance, and not simply exploit.
Across the EP’s four tracks we are treated to impeccable, entrancing house riddims – masterfully executed, with subtle, yet meaningful nods to dub and ambient, and echoing inspirations such as The Orb, Andrew Weatherall’s remix work and the early Warp catalogue. Driving and soothing, kinetic and cordial, refreshing and utterly danceable, these four tunes succeed in conveying a unique sense of the melanphoric – and this is precisely what makes for their delicious seligability.

Computer Toys as a label gives a home to electronic music, which is not clearly defined by a certain genre, but rather an idea: Taking influences from the 90s and early 2000s into a modern environment without taking ourselves too seriously. Computer Toys was created by DJ and Producer Chris Gerber and is inspired by the scurrility of the early Internet aesthetics - rough and flashy.