Luke Terry
My name is Luke Terry and according to my birth certificate I was born
on Thursday 28th November 1985, as I have no personal recollection of
this event you will have to take my word for it. I also have came to
dislike biography pages, my own to be more specific. I think it's
probably best for all parties that the music speaks for itself instead.
As a result I going to write a short piece on what music I like.
Hopefully this biography will be slightly different to read than the
usual rambling that you may have been expecting to be here. If you
don't like it, please do e-mail me with a fully written alternative and
I will put it up instead. Here we go...
I have always loved electronic music from a young age. There's not
many kids whom I went to school with that had A Flock of Seagulls down
as a favourite artist by age 10. To this day I Ran is my favourite song
of all time. I just wish I had been old enough to have seen AFOS live
in their heyday. And that's pretty much where my musical tase remained
until I was in my first year of senior school and became equally
mesmerised by Chicane's Offshore which is probably my 2nd favourite
song of all time. After buying several euro-dance style CDs and only
finding one or two tracks that I liked, along came the Trance Nation
compilations. MOS Trance Nation 2 mixed by Ferry Corsten, the one with
the green sleeve, in my opinion, is the greatest compilation CD of all
time. In fact the whole Trance Nation CD series when under the hands of
Mr Corsten embody all that is good about trance music. Now, I reckon
that if you can combine AFOS, Chicane, Ferry Corsten and the spirit of
Trance Nation in a track, you are going to have something worth
listening and hopefully dancing to.
However, we are nearly a decade on from those times. Kevin &
Perry Go Large seems like a distant memory, vinyl is pretty much dead,
the music in the charts is still mostly crap and each man and his dog
has his own record label, including myself. Yet trance music isn't
dead. It may have changed a bit but it's still basically the same. I
sometimes stick an old CD on in the car when out on a run, most likely
Trance Nation 2, and the music is timeless. Sure the production
technique and technology is different, the melodies have changed, a lot
of names have came and gone, but the music itself, it's timeless. Ferry
Corsten's remix of William Orbit's take on Samuel Barber's Adagio for
Strings will still send any crowd who is up for it into a frenzy.
Likewise will a modern anthem like John O'Callaghan's Big Sky. I think
what we sometimes forget whilst getting so caught up in the music and
what Paul van Dyk would have you call the Politics of Dancing is
actually the music itself as that is what is important.
I have been producing since around 2003, DJing for a little bit
longer and I have met an awful lot of great people through the music
scene, all whom have influenced my taste in music one way or the other.
I think I'm going to stop about here for now as I sense the rest will
either be rambling or arguing which has been the norm over the last few
years of my life at uni. So for now, if you would like to hear what
music I have actually made or sets that I have pieced together from
other producers please check out the samples above or visit my website www.luketerry.com
Luke
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