Luke Slater

Luke Slater
Birth name Luke Slater
Also known as 4 Slots For Bill
7th Plain
The, Clementine
Deputy Dawg
Earnest Honest
Krispy Krouton
L.B. Dub Corp
Lloyd Owes Me A Packet
Morganistic
Offset
Planetary Assault Systems
Translucent
Born 12 June 1968 (1968-06-12) (age 43)
Origin Reading, England
Genres Techno
Electronic music
Occupations Electronic musician
DJ
Record producer
Years active 1989–present
Labels General Production Recordings
Peacefrog Records
Mute Records
Mote-Evolver
Ostgut Ton
Associated acts Heamaglobien
Alan Sage
Website http://www.lukeslater.com/

Luke Slater (born 12 June 1968, Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English electronic musician, DJ and record producer, who has concentrated on techno since the beginning of the 1990s.

Born in Reading and raised in Horley, Slater's early sound dalliances with his father's reel to reel tape recorder and his drumming stints led to work in local record shops, including Jelly Jam in Brighton. By 1988, Slater was immersed in the embryonic acid house scene, DJing in London's Heaven nightclub.

Slater began releasing original tracks under various monikers, and his single debut came in 1989 with "Momentary Vision". Releases followed on DJax as Clementine, on General Production Recordings as 7th Plain, and as Morganistic (with Alan Sage), and especially on Peacefrog Records, with nearly a dozen of releases as The X-Tront and as Planetary Assault Systems.

After releasing four albums on Peacefrog, he issued 1997's Freek Funk and Wireless two years later. His tracks "All Exhale" (2000) and "Nothing At All" (2002) reached #74 and #70 respectively in the UK Singles Chart.[1] His first volume of the mix series Fear and Loathing appeared in 2001, on the React label. Alright on Top (2002) was an "album of songs" with vocals from Ricky Barrows and others featured on every track. The second volume of Fear and Loathing appeared in late 2004.

Slater has released a mix for the Fabric DJ-mix series, and has reinvented innumerable tracks in remixes from artists such as Depeche Mode and Ken Ishii to more recent remixes for Radial and Soul Designer.

In 2006, Slater set up his own label, Mote-Evolver, releasing limited 12" records and digital downloads through the Mote-Evolver and N.E.W.S. websites.

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Pseudonyms

Selected discography

(As Luke Slater)

(As Planetary Assault Systems)

References

  1. ^ Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 507. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. 

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