When he's not tagging walls or winning Kung Fu competitions, he's busy delighting EDM crowds.
About Laidback Luke
Artist Biography
Though Laidback Luke’s name suggests an almost zen state of chill, his sound is anything but: The Dutch DJ/producer is the mastermind behind some of EDM’s most boisterous crowd-pleasers. Lucas Cornelis van Scheppingen was born in Manila, the Philippines, in 1976, to a Dutch father and a Filipina mother, and moved as a child to the northern Dutch town of Hoofddorp. He began making tracks after discovering club music at a school dance, and by the mid-’90s, he was putting out singles influenced by Chicago house’s hard-charging drum programming. But Luke’s main contributions to dance music were a function of his crossover sensibilities. In the late 2000s, his progressive-house collaborations with artists like Swedish House Mafia’s Steve Angello and Sebastian Ingrosso helped set the stage for EDM’s worldwide explosion; cuts with Steve Aoki and Diplo pushed into even ravier territory, while his Mixmash label put out more pop-friendly acts like Martin Solveig. A regular fixture on the festival circuit’s biggest stages, Laidback Luke remains one of the dance scene’s most versatile players, capable of effortlessly switching between big-room bangers, pop-dance ballads, and old-school floor-fillers.
Hometown
New York, NY, United States
Genre
Dance
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