Published
Wed, May 18, 2005, 10:00
- The Lunar Calendar might need updating with 2005 being a year of many firsts for Australian producer and DJ, Luke Chable.
Anyone who has taken more than a passing interest in the progressive house scene in the last three of four years would be in the possession of at least a handful of compilations or 12"s that have the name Luke Chable, the Australian producer and dance music prodigy, on the sleeve.
Having produced a staggering number of tracks under a variety of pseudonyms including Lo-Step (with Phil K), The Dirty Fours (with Nubreed), Dark Alley and Quest for labels like Global Underground, Alternative Route, M-Theory, Zero Tolerance and Vapour, his tracks more often than not have been at the centrepiece of the most A-list of DJ's sets. Think Sasha, Digweed, Seaman and Tong.
Legend has it that it only took him and Nubreed's Dan Bonnici a grand total of an hour and forty-five minutes to write the monster tune “Ride". That’s right, 105 minutes -- and he has a witness! On the DJ side of things Luke Chable has been a little slower to get his foot in the door but that all looks about to change having recently relocated to Holland as part of his signing to Extrema Music Management.
2005 looks like being a year of many firsts for Luke Chable, notching up his first ever US and world tour in support of his first ever compilation Renaissance presents Therapy Sessions Vol 2; the release of his first artist album on Global Underground and the first release from his own new label Trojan Records.
RA caught up with a somewhat homesick Luke for a very candid interview about his production process in the studio, his DJing and a first-hand account of some of the rarely-mentioned shady encounters with record labels in the dance music industry.
It might not be written into the Lunar Calendar but perhaps...this is the Year of the Chable!