Originally from Los Angeles, Monty Luke started his music career on a steady diet of Hip-Hop, underground electronic music and Dub. He later continued his path through San Francisco and then to Detroit where he has spent several years working as a label manager for Carl Craig’s lauded Planet E imprint before eventually landing in Berlin, the city he calls home today.
In 2011 Monty started his own label, Black Catalogue, where he releases music both under his own name and his Mandingo alias, as well as shining a light on underground artists like Sepehr, Stefan Ringer and Dave Aju amongst others. In his DJ sets and radio shows, Monty’s style seamlessly traverses through the worlds of Dark Disco, House, Dub and Deep Techno and this intrinsic fundamental knowledge of electronic music also shines through in his own productions, which have found their way onto imprints like Rekids, Classic, KMS, Cadenza and of course his own. There’s an inherent, infectious rawness and a cosmic touch emanating through everything Monty Luke puts his hands on and here we put a spotlight on some gems from his record collection for a new episode of our Electronic Beats B-Sides series.
8 июл 2024
