Rude 66

Rude 66 (Real name Ruud Lekx, Delft 1966) is a Dutch electronic musician and recording artist currently living in Amsterdam. Live and occasionally on records, his wife Shaunna Lekx is also part of the band as a vocalist and co-writer of lyrics. Rude 66 has been a longtime collaborator of the Bunker Records label, and has released influential records in both acid house and electro music styles of electronic music.

Name

The name Rude 66 is a reference to both the English pronunciation of Lekx's first name and year of birth. It's also a play on the famous American highway Route 66.

History

Rude 66 started as a musician in the 80's, playing keyboards in Noise band Kamika6 who gained some notoirity in the Dutch underground scene but only produced a demo cassette. In school, he met Eric van Spelde with whom he formed Voice of the Mute, an Electronic body music band who released a track on a compilation on Body Records in 1990. They then formed the duo Modulate, who released a techno EP in 1993 on Belgian label SSR, an offshoot of Crammed Discs.
Meeting up again with highschool friend Guy Tavares who just started Bunker Records, Rude gave Tavares a tape of acid tracks that was released on Bunker in 1993. Like many of Rude's earlier tracks, this was produced by Arno Peeters. The double LP received favorable reviews and tracks were played on National radio. It was followed by a string of albums that established Rude 66 as one of the main names of the label and of the lo-fi acid scene. These albums all have the typical Bunker look: there is no sleeve and there are no track titles: the only info is the artist name and the catalogue number on the black label. Rude started his own label Speedster Records in 1995, but due to distribution problems only one EP was released in a limited edition of 300 copies. Most were sold through the Hotmix Mailorder of I-f.
Rude moved to Djax-Up-Beats in 1996 and released 2 ep's there, before Bunker restarted and Rude was among the first artists to release electro ep's like the classic Machine EP.
from 1996-2005 Rude 66 was connected to the CEM studio in Amsterdam, starting the Vynalogica label in 2000 where artists could work with the studio's vintage modular synthesizers and the results released as ep's. Records were released by Legowelt, Orgue Electronique, Dntel, Bong-Ra, Solvent, Lowfish, and others. Recently Rude 66 releases his main output on the Creme Organisation label, including Black Sabbath (2005), the 1000 Year Storm (2007), As (2008) and the Sadistic Tendencies (2008) album.

As a live artist, Rude 66 has played all over the world in the last 15 years, including the US and most European countries. from 2007, Rude 66 has been invlolved in the running of the Cybernetic Broadcasting System with longtime musical friend I-f. Rude also has his own Cosmic Space show on the station.

Discography

Albums

Bunker 012 (Bunker, 1994)
Bunker 013 (Bunker, 1994)
Bunker 019 (Bunker, 1994 cd compilation of 012 and 013)
Bunker 020 (Bunker 1995)
The Devils Highway (Silver Recordings, 1996)
Bunker 027 (Bunker, 1997)
Bunker 028 (Bunker, 1997)
Sadistic Tendencies (Crème Organisation, 2008)

Ep's and Singles

Modulate- Dreams EP (Crammed/SSR, 1993)
Acid Planet 3 7" (Acid Planet, 1994)
Lucifer (Djax-Up-Beats,1996)
66 deadly sins (Kultbox, 1997)
B-day (Djax-Up-Beats, 1998)
De machine des duivels (Bunker, 2000)
De Wraak der wegpiraten (Bunker 2002)
Black Sabbath (Creme Organisation, 2005)
Overkill (Viewlexx, 2005)
Strings of Death (Vynalogica, 2006)
1000 Year storm (Crème Organisation, 2007)
As (Crème Organisation, 2008)

Exclusive tracks on compilations

Voice of the Mute- Mission Impossible (on Somewhere in the Skeleton, Body Records, 1990)
The Covenant (on Bunker 3000, Bunker, 1999)
Donker (on Eurelectro.nix ep, Angelmaker, 2003)
Killers (on Tribute to Iron Maiden, Angelmaker cd/ep, 2004)
Die Stärke der Vernichtende Schläge(on Stalingrad vol.1, Bunker, 2005)
Undercover (on Tribute to Bob Moog, Crème Organisation cd/ep, 2006)
Angst Bleibt (on Nagasaki Nightriders, Crème Organisation, 2007)
Donker (on Le Mix, International DJ Gigolo, 2008)
St. Elmo's Fire (on Another Another Green World, Narrominded, 2010

Remixes

Riplets- Hey Mickey (Rude 66 remix), G&J Records, 2004
Bastards of Love- Rituals (Rude 66 remix), Werocklikecrazy, 2005
Maarten van der Vleuten- Eltec (Rude 66 remix), Mighty Robot Recordings, 2006
Sally Shapiro- By your side ((Rude 66 808 and 909remix), Discocaine, 2006
Psyche- Unveiling the Secret (Rude 66 remix), Electronic Corporation, 2006
Ra-X- Dresden 1943, 2nd front (Rude 66 remix), Angelmaker, 2007
Johan Agebjörn- Spacer woman (Rude 66 remix), LOEB, 2008

External links

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