So what….

Luke began his proffesional DJ career in 1990 having practiced hard at his Friday night residency at Middlesex University student Union, where he met cohort Justin Harris. During this period he started working at a local Barnet record shop selling house music and soul music whilst holding down a part time job as a fishmonger. Following this his career within the industry was secured whence he got a job at Freetown, then home to Robert Owens, Felix the housecat,Jamie Principle and Masters at Work. This openned doors and led him to a long lasting relationship with Rob Mello and Kenny Hawkes, with hom he started his recording career and passion for live radio (Girls FM) respectively. Rob took Luke under his studio wing and taught him the ropes . Together they worked on productions for both Freetown and Prescription Underground. It was through the prescription owner Chez Damier,that he met a certain Mr Derrick L Carter. They immediately jelled due to their fascination with late nights and wild parties. From this Classic was born. The DJ’s record label, home to artists such as DJ Sneak,Isolee,Tiefshwarz and Greenskeepers. During this time Luke and Justin had also begun to devlop their own production team,”Freaks.” Recording for their own label Music for Freaks, they went to complete 3 studio albums, including within this, “the Man who lived underground. This brings us to present day. Luke decided to take a step back from the the record label business and began focus on production. Freaks have signed there four year old record “the Creeps”, to the ministry of sound. The hype is massive and it looks set to be a top 20 record in the UK. They are also gigging as a 5 piece band and have 8 track demo of their new project, “the Last Days of Disco.” Luke has also nearly finished his solo album for Rekids. The album is titled the Difference Engine. It features a multitude of musicians including, Robert Owens, Derrick Carter, Earl Gateshead and Nathan Haines to name a few. Then there is the business of producing. Luke has been working alongside Damian Lazarus. In the early stages of producing an album for fellow Freak, Jonny Rock, and more currently , working with old friend Timothy Shumaker on This Modern Dance. The ultimate weirdos underground supergroup. Features the talents of Sam Obernik, Chris Nazuka, Collette, DJ Heather, Chris Storr and Stella Attar.

UPDATE:

Luke Solomon has finally found a second in his hectic summer schedule to fill people in on what he’s been up to.

On the road all summer and still helping promote his critically acclaimed debut album, “The Difference Engine.” Luke has played and some amazing events , most notably an outdoor event in San Fransico to celebrate July 4, the Bloom festival in Gloucester, but , the most wondrous being the amazing Piknik Electronique in A park in Montreal Canada.
Luke has recently returned from playing Tokyo Stadium alongside long term friend Darren Emerson and has immersed himself back into the studio.

Having spent the last 2 years writing and producing  Damian Lazarus’s solo album, the pair have been holed up in a studio in London mixing it.
The mixing has been taking place on a rather special mixing desk which is one of 2 in the entire world and belongs to Mark Ralph, party of Filthy Dukes.
Built by Conny Plank and used on some seminal electronic albums that include Kraftwerks “Autobahn, most of the Can albums and Ultravox’ s Fade to Grey amongst many more classic electronic seminal album records. The album is set for release in April on Germany’s label of the minute, Get Physical.

On top of this Freaks have been writing a whole heap of new material, inspired by a major interest in one of the UK’s labels of the moment.
Everything is under wraps for the minute as Freak’s do not want to tempt fate once more, but look out for a new single that is  Freaks moving their own electronic musicical style forward in a truly demonic fashion.

The biggest news of late is that Luke has been asked by the legendary Radioslave to help produce his next single.
This commences in September, so watch this space.

On the Djing front Luke continues to host his residency @ the AKA which celebrated 10 years with an amazing party earlier in the month where he played alongside Basement Jaxx, Giles Peterson , the legendary Fabio amongst many more AKA regulars.

The new Music for Freaks website is set for launch any day now. Hosted by the same company the host the marvelous Mr Scruffs website. The site has a whole host of features , live updates and free music and web shop that will have sought after merchandise and music and much more.
Luke Solomon and Derrick Carter are also re launching the seminal Classic and Music for Freaks with a string on new releases that include remixes of back catalogue and a couple of newies thrown in for good measure.

And finally: Kenny Hawkes and Luke have been approached by Stuart Patterson to host a Space Re Union @ East Village in Old St, London. The reunion takes place on 10th October.