Lux Voltaire
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Lux Voltaire are a Sydney-based electropop and future pop-styled music group. Lux Voltaire consider themselves 'neuropunk'. Lux Voltaire are currently invading the Sydney goth scene with their brand of neuropunk.
| Lux Voltaire | |
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| Origin |  Sydney, Australia |
| Genre(s) | Electronica |
| Years active | Late 1990s to present |
| Website | www.luxvoltaire.com |
| Members | |
| Luthor X Brendan Creaven James Ryan former members James Mothership Lady K |
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[edit] History
Luthor X began life in Lismore, New South Wales, playing the Uni/Pub circuit alongside Grinspoon, Spawn and Headlifter. After collaborating with Spawn, Luthor X formed SPIRE and relocated to Melbourne. Here he worked with Tankt in its embryonic stages while pursuing his own music as Lux Voltaire. Employing two talented cabaret and stage-fighting artists, Lux Voltaire began playing live around Melbourne and then Sydney in 2003. (source and credit: badpauly of Fiend Magazine)
This version of Lux Voltaire featured James Mothership (samples and vocals), and Lady K (synthesizer and vocals). The trio played several shows until late 2004 when the two new members departed to pursue acting/cabaret careers.
Lux has since collaborated with Resurrection Eve, and remixed for Jekyll Switch, Snog and Tankt as well as numerous other unsigned outfits.
In early 2005 as the album Prey For Uncertainty was completed Lux enlisted the current group members of James Ryan (backing vocals, synthesizer) and Brendan Creaven (bass and electric guitar). Later that year Lux Voltaire was one of the first members of the new Gothic-Industrial-Electronic collective Crash Frequency.
2006 saw Lux Voltaire the Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim mini album, radio airplay followed with FBi, 2SER-fm and 2RRR-fm supporting the release. The mini album contains remixes from TankT, Bassmasta B (aka Brendan Creaven), Angel Theory amongst other notables. James Ryan (also The Horse Museum) relocated to Melbourne and his status with the band is unsure.
Lux is currently reconditioning his Barbed Wireless studio, in preparation for the forthcoming album "Ownlife" in late 2007/early 2008.
[edit] Major events
- VNV Nation's Formation World Tour 2005 (support along with The Crystalline Effect)
- Real Life reformation tour 2005 (support along with Bleepin' J. Squawkins)
- #8 on the Danish Alternative charts with "Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim" (source: Fiend Magazine via Australian Darkwave Charts)
- Under The Blue Moon Festival 2006 in Sydney, this show featured the legendary electro act Nitzer Ebb.
[edit] Discography
[edit] Albums
- Prey For Uncertainty (2005 - Crash Frequency/Dice Head)
- Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim (2006 - Crash Frequency/Dice Head)
[edit] Compilations
- Crash Frequency Australian Independent Darkwave Volume 1 - 2005 (song: Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim)
- Crash Frequency Australian Independent Darkwave Volume 2 - 2006 (songs: Dreamtime, Despite You)
- Fiend Magazine - CD #2 - 2007 (song: Molly)
[edit] Remixes
- Jekyll Switch - (Yellow Sediment appears on the "A Horrible Pact" album, 2000)
- TankT - (godlike dead patriarch mix appears on the "Devolution" album, 2002)
- The Process Void - (Lethargy appears on Crash Frequency Volume 2" double album, 2006)
