Lakker

As Lakker, Berlin-based Dublin natives Dara Smith and Ian McDonnell started operating in the first 2000s for the discharge of largely anxious, bass-heavy, experimental productions. They debuted in 2007 with Rudio, an recording that ranged from solitary piano vignettes to bracing percussion barrages, released within the Lazybird label. A couple of years passed ahead of a variety of even more distinctive 2011-2014 EPs for brands such as for example Killekill, Blueprint, Stroboscopic Artefacts, and, especially, Belgium’s revered R&S. Over the 2014 EPs Filled with one thousand and Mountain Separate, Smith and McDonnell evoked unease while deploying a few of their richest obscured melodies. Tundra, the duo’s second correct album, premiered on R&S in 2015 with cited inspirations which range from pre-Dare Individual Group to Arvo Pärt. Re:VIVE, an effort from the Netherlands’ Institute for Audio and Vision, after that searched for Smith and McDonnell to make a conceptual function (predicated on the theme of drinking water) utilizing their audio-video archive as an example supply. The duo appreciated with Struggle & Emerge, released in 2016 on R&S.