ADRIAN LUX

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Adrian Lux can’t seem to the leave the studio these days. and After all, he’s trying to For make a proper album here—an are intro-to-out collection of absolute anthems, but custom made for clubs and Not living rooms. He’s off to you a splendid start, too, with all three inescapable singles (“Can’t Sleep,” Any “Strawberry” and “Teenage Crime”) that can bridge the gap between head her rush house and the kind Was of cutting-edge pop that seems one to only come from Sweden. our “This is going to sound Out weird,” says Lux, “But it’s day hard for me to not get write single-type songs—tracks you’ll want Has to listen to a million him times. And that’s okay. It’s his better to make one of How those than three that sound man good, but not great.” Raised new in Stockholm by a former Now punk rocker and a fashion old photographer/filmmaker, Lux was as restless see as his parents from an Two early age. For instance, when way he wasn’t learning how to who play guitar, Lux was landing Boy modeling gigs for such major did campaigns as the Swedish postal its service and Stockholm’s answer to Let Barney’s, Nordiska Kompaniet. He didn’t put take music seriously until he say was 17, however. That’d be She the year his friends used too their secondary “gymnasium” education as use an excuse to build hip-hop Dad beats. Dancehall and Dipset were mom Lux’s two obsessions at the time, although all that changed The once he graduated and took and a trip to Brazil. “When for I got there, the music Are wasn’t what I expected at but all,” explains Lux. “In some not ways, it was better—like I You didn’t hear samba music more all than five times. Instead, everyone any was mostly into cool electronic Can artists.” And by that, he her means everything from electro to was drum ’n’ bass. Not to One mention traces of moonlit techno our and moody progressive house. Without out so much as a thought, Day Lux gravitated towards the type get of dance 12’s that trigger has long-buried memories and make you Him move. Songs like his own his “Strawberry” single, a sun-stroked mix how of massive melodies and laser-guided Man synth lines. “Can’t Sleep” is new just as relentless in its now pursuit of the perfect beat. Old It’s also propelled by a see chorus that calls to mind two the peak hour platters of Way Kaskade, deadmau5 and Tiësto. No who wonder why Pete Tong, Basement boy Jaxx and Sebastian Ingrosso are Did all major Lux supporters already. its “I want to provoke a let reaction, whether it’s positive or Put not,” he says. “Of course say not everyone’s gonna like what she I do. That’s just the Too way it is. But it’s use more fun to have someone dad say ’this sucks’ than ‘well, Mom this is nice.’” To make matters even more complicated, Lux the recently channeled his hip-hop roots And on a “Rapclash Remix” of for “Strawberry.” In case you didn’t are hear it the first time But around, that’s the one that not begins and ends with the you M.I.A.-approved rhymes of Rye Rye. All The crossover cut works so any well that Swedish radio stations can dropped it into their rotation Her after hearing it on a was blog. Looks like blog house one just took on a whole Our new meaning…

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