Productions

LUKE LUND "HELIKAALINEN (HELICAL)"

• CD + custom typeface https://lukelund.bandcamp.com
• CD + digital https://fluf.space/FLUF33
• Digital https://boomkat.com/products/helikaalinen

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Helikaalinen (Helical) — generative soundscapes mirroring structures present in nature on microbiological and molecular level, inspired by symbiogenesis and mutualism. Released on https://fluf.space

"An untethered, organismic slide into a bulging, folding sound world created by artist Luke Lund. Through the 13 shapeshifting tracks that make up Helikaalinen (Helical), fractally growing and regrowing sounds spawn from each other, transforming organelle into organism. This non-periodic yet repeating music mirrors chaotic processes found in the natural world, meandering in dynamic tension around the strangest of attractors.

By creating a deftly-modulating, never replicating sound system in constant search of equilibrium, Luke catalyses a sonic environment where past merges into future, as the present fills our ears with rhythm-becoming-pitch-becoming-rhythm. In Helikaalinen we celebrate resonance on a cellular level: the emergent complexity inherent in all of us, striving onwards to eventual bifurcation.

Fold over fold, split after split, time after time."

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The graphic design of Helikaalinen is based on the custom font designed by Stephen McEvoy and Luke Lund.

Helikaalinen typeface is a sprawling, modularly designed decorative font in .OTF format. It consists of 26 asemic uppercase glyphs replacing the English alphabet. The structures can be branched out with ligatures formed by tightened kerning and leading.

Helikaalinen (Helical)

Alfa-kierre (Alpha Helix)

2209X OHM
Perihelion 2209

Free Download here:
https://ohmresistance.bandcamp.com/album/perihelion-2209

Annual Ohm Resistance compilation

16 Luke Lund - Hostile Architecture (Kela Mix)

PAY-WHAT-YOU-WANT: https://terraneanrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/vaporous-passage

"Vaporous Passage" is a ruminative distillation of Luke Lund's hypnagogic drone guitar and obsession with fx, dedicated to exploring textural properties and limitations of the EBow.

Inspired by revisiting recordings from 2011, this hourlong improvised guitar journey harkens back to his EBow worshipping "Infinite Sustain" albums from former ambient project Light Overhead, but importantly bears no efforts to purely retrace those recordings a decade later.

Split into two contrary forces, the album opens with bittersweet, swirling vignettes saturated with ferric fuzz — the dreamlike, chiming breeze of "Deliverance From Doubt" arcs to elegant organ-like tones before dissipating away into the glistening, soporific kaleidoscope of "Far Peripheral" — A reprise bridges the warm soundscapes into a despaired flipside of unholy drone — The depleted discord of "First Encounter" paints a monochrome, void-staring picture — The churning phantom rhythm of quasi-industrial "The Ache Beneath" crushes across spiraling walls of doom — The searching album finale floods over with a heart-stricken motif as a closing gesture...

"Vaporous Passage" is a vehement step forwards, revitalising his relationship with weightless guitar by a more mature approach.

— EBow, 7-string electric guitar, effects by Luke Lund
— Echo flavor for track 5 from Seeli Kuuppo
— Recorded at Solace on September 2nd 2021

Vaporous Passage

[TERR115] Luke Lund - Ever Out of Reach

OUT NOW — "For Peace. Against War. Who Is Not?" — a compilation for the people of Ukraine

199 tracks by artists including myself, Wolfgang Flür (Kraftwerk), Stephen Mallinder (Cabaret Voltaire), Jack Dangers (Meat Beat Manifesto), Scanner, die ANGEL (Schneider™ & Ilpo Väisänen), Zappi Diermaier (Faust), Dead Voices On Air, Somatic Responses, Dr. Walker, Machinefabriek...

All proceeds directly to Vostok SOS and Red Cross Ukraine

https://componentrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/for-peace-against-war-who-is-not-a-compilation-for-the-people-of-ukraine

Nocturnal

'Suontaka Sword' Dub originally released on O.G. Jigg's now sold out tape https://memotone.bandcamp.com/album/o-g-jigg-friends-part-ii

'Unearthed' Mix previously unreleased variant

"The Suontaka sword was found in what was previously interpreted as a high-status woman's grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Tyrväntö, Finland. The grave dates from the late Nordic Iron Age, c. 1040–1174 AD, and it also included another hiltless sword with silver-inlays that was placed directly on the buried corpse. Ancient DNA analysis found that the individual likely had Klinefelter syndrome, indicated through the presence of XXY chromosomes. The individual had been buried in a female dress with three brooches. According to the authors of the 2021 study, "The overall context of the grave indicates that it was a respected person whose gender identity may well have been nonbinary." 

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/1000-year-old-remains-in-finland-may-be-non-binary-viking-researchers-say

O.G. Jigg - The Fool (Luke Lund 'Suontaka Sword' Dub)

Noise Above Talent — 10" dubplate remix — 2021

Paragon - Victim/Perpetrator (Luke Lund Warfarin Shock Mix)

TERR116: "Bride Stones / False Vacuum" culls two new electro-acoustic works by Luke Lund: https://terraneanrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/bride-stones-false-vacuum

The idea of sonifying events occurring over geological and cosmic timescales unites the longform soundscapes of this double header. From the sense of tectonic mountain-birthing forces and gentle millennia-long microscopic erosion of rock formations in "Bride Stones," to "False Vacuum's" mental imagery attempting to fathom a theoretical collapse of the universe and death of time itself, they serve as entry to an extraordinarily vivid yet alien soundsphere.

"Briganti," the first section of "Bride Stones" is a slowly evolving, poetic journey performed in Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Created live, although largely airy and ethereal, its delicate synthesizer movement is combined with a dynamic and unpredictable generative technique that completely disintegrates environmental recordings made around the craggy peak of Snowdon and rocky beaches of Llandudno. Together they create a narrative of deep naturalistic planes that penetrate each other and metamorphose into thick swells of tonal, near melodic vapor; the hush of air and rain sculpting rock over eons; vistas of isolation on desolate tectonic plates of stone grinding and crashing into sonorous metal... The later-recorded second and third sections employ the same approach but in studio.

Next to the triptych piece sits the volatile two-part "False Vacuum." Created from synth parts based off a performance at New River Studios, it is fused with abstracted urban London field recordings, dissociated spectrally to maximum extent. The dread-raising pendulum-like drone pushing and pulling sets up a menacing pulse within which fluid interweavings and manifold clusters of textural apparitions burst and dissipate. A sensory overwhelming, dense mesh of haunting crescendos of discordant howls and a vicious microscosm of screeches darting through the stereo field and the human audio range.

Two dramatic narratives — both highly dynamic and abound with precise details of psychological subtlety. Both engrossed in wayward energies and wilderness of pure sound.

[TERR116] Luke Lund - False Vacuum II: Phantom Energy

[TERR116] Luke Lund - Bride Stones I: Briganti

From "Extreme Noise Terror Deconstructed:Reconstructed" benefit tape, which also featured Andrew Nolan, Sectra, Misery Engine, IOM... All proceeds donated to My Sisters' Place — a support group for victims of domestic abuse. 

Released in 2021 by @industrialcoast, since sold out.

Luke Lund vs Extreme Noise Terror - Murder (Vampire Mix)

Luke Lund - Impostor (Bristol Action)

Gnarled Horse Throat

Gnarled Horse Throat - A Futile Stream Of Commands (Luke Lund Headfuck)

Hard Return's compilation, 66 artists, 8h total, all responding to the open call: "make the most repetitive thing you've ever done". All money to Doctors Without Borders.

https://hardreturn.bandcamp.com/album/compilation

"In The Corner Unlit" — All sounds created from a 9-second synthesizer loop, that is ping-ponging through a maze of generative effects. The generative patch builds up layers of iterations of the loop and at the same time degenerates via GAN artifacts. 

Created while accompanying Dad through his last days.

"The stars in the sky
In vain
The tragedy of Hamlet
   In vain
The key in the lock
      In vain
The sleeping mother
      In vain
The lamp in the corner
         In vain
The lamp in the corner unlit
            In vain
Abraham Lincoln
                        In vain
The Aztec empire
                           In vain
The writing hand: in vain
(The shoetrees in the shoes
         In vain
The windowshade string upon
            the hand bible
   In vain—
   The glitter of the greenglass
         ashtray
In vain
The bear in the woods
         In vain
The Life of Buddha
         In vain)"

In The Corner Unlit

18 Luke Lund - Deathmatch

track by : https://soundcloud.com/weight-less

artwork : https://www.instagram.com/gaspard_hers/

Luke Lund - Fencing Response

Luke Lund - Nowness (Traction)

We are on a knife edge. Modernized digital hardcore for the great new era of loss. Invest in extinction with mutoid abuse of Sherwoodian dub techniques. Angular lo tech bass riddims for hiding heads in holes. Pathological odd-meter clangor for human resource liquidation. Industrial-grade brutalist grime for cost-effective planetary murder-suicide. Faster than expected. Worse than predicted. Greater than anticipated. Shut your eyes — all will be right in the end.

Cross To Bear

13 Luke Lund - Shed Responsibility

TERR113 "Inhalation": https://terraneanrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/inhalation

Luke Lund's "Inhalation" opens a vortex to the most infected strains between formations of mutant scree, isolationist drone fragments, and gutrumbling blows of dissociated — and dissected — bass pressure. Spread across two sessions split into four tracks he tackles open-ended, quickly-moving generative connections of chaotic spectral synthesis and ad-libs as the right hand of his pitiless CPU's aleatoric discord.

"Droplet Dispersion" is a discombobulating dose of cellular chain reactions captured directly from a ballistic rehearsal test run, inoculating for the lethal outbreak to come.

"Aerosol Transport" is the outbreak recorded live at Noise Space 6, Helsinki, the day after. A stoic attempt at containing invasive, viscous drone and detonating breakouts of atonal demonstrations while cowering behind hazmat equipment.

Suit up.

Inhalation

[TERR113] Luke Lund - Droplet Dispersion II

TERR114 "Remnant Ejecta" LP: https://terraneanrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/remnant-ejecta

Third volume in Luke Lund's series of cosmic techno, "Remnant Ejecta" continues his mission into sonifying formidable phenomena that push the boundaries of astrophysics. Maintaining sounds of deep endless vacuum and tones of extraterrestrial origin from earlier volumes "Optical Range" and "Rogue Star", the speed accelerates for warp drive on "Remnant Ejecta." 11 razing tracks in higher tempo that supercharge levels into the red, volume three is without doubt the most abrasive so far.

Produced in breakneck time in February 2021 with the addition of unreleased live recordings and two rare compilation tracks, it's an album that hammers familiar sounds from the 90's and interprets its own violent intergalatic definitions of low Burial Mix-esque bass; high octane minimalism of Riou Tomita; cutting edge contortions of Vogel and Landstrumm; drift and drone of techstep. 70 minutes of hyperspeed pulsars spinning near-light speed, body-twisting sinking towards the inescapable event horizon, existential contemplation on vacuum decay and heat death.

[TERR114] Luke Lund - Wolf 1061c

[TERR114] Luke Lund - Shkadov Thruster (Kilonova Divergent)

2022.08.13: London, New River Studios
2022.08.11: Todmorden, Golden Lion
2022.08.06: Liverpool, Quarry
2022.08.05: Bristol, Strange Brew
2022.08.04: London, Iklectik
2021.12.17: Helsinki, Kuudes Linja
2020.10.24: Helsinki, Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki
2̶0̶2̶0̶.̶0̶4̶.̶0̶4̶:̶ ̶H̶e̶l̶s̶i̶n̶k̶i̶,̶ ̶V̶a̶p̶a̶a̶n̶ ̶T̶a̶i̶t̶e̶e̶n̶ ̶T̶i̶l̶a̶ ̶(̶S̶/̶N̶ ̶M̶e̶a̶s̶u̶r̶e̶s̶)̶
2020.02.08: Helsinki, Vapaan Taiteen Tila
2020.01.25: Helsinki, Oranssi (S/N Measures)
2020.01.23: Helsinki, Mascot Bar (Catatonic Dread)
2019.12.06: Helsinki, 100Lotus_Festival
2019.09.28: London, Temporary Autonomous Art
2019.09.21: Bradford, FUSE Art Space
2019.09.19: Lancaster, The Golden Lion
2019.09.15: London, Rye Wax
2019.09.14: Amsterdam, Vondelbunker
2019.09.13: Kassel, Sandershaus
2019.09.12: Berlin, Griessmühle
2019.06.08: Turku, B-galleria
2019.05.29: Tampere, Nightclub Mixei
2019.05.03: Helsinki, Third Space
2019.04.26: Helsinki, Asbestos Art Space
2019.03.09: Helsinki, Kalasataman Vapaakaupunki
2018.10.03: Helsinki, Oranssi

Self-taught producer, art director and label head. Though for the past 14 years his repertoire has drawn references anywhere from club culture's obscure fringes and caustic industrial clatter to musique concrète discretion and knuckle-dragging rock — it all feeds into his sense of sonic intensities and improvisational, organic production values. Lund's work is fixated on close examination of timbre and texture, at sword's point with passive listening. More recently he has shifted into employing contextual methods of capturing and processing sound, twisting into bewildering new forms.