Biography
Luke's fascination with cutting edge sound began in the underground electronic scene's of San Francisco and Sacramento, California. Luke owned and teched a 20,000 watt Turbosound sound system from early 2005 until Summer 2008 for the North West United States electronic scene he fell deep in love with. With over 12 years experience mixing dance music live, organizing events, and running large sound systems, Luke experienced a large variety of dance floors. His favorite dance floors are those of the underground scene, however Luke's style varies to activate many different crowds. Utilizing his unique sensitivity to emotional atmosphere and groove, Luke's sets are a journey carefully guided through many moods and genres depending on the crowd yet focused to flow smoothly with harmonic compatibility, and the groove. Luke has played clubs in Guatemala and has been flown to perform at festivals in Mexico multiple times. He has played at small and large events just about every weekend since he started DJing back in 1998. He has organized bi-monthly dance events almost constantly since 2003 all around the North West of the United States and in other countries while traveling. In 2008, Luke decided to focus more energy towards music production and the global electronic scene.
Since 2008 Luke has signed tracks with huge labels such as Booka Shade / Get Physical Music, Definitive Recordings, Baroque Records, Manuel Music, Future Lovers Recordings, Desert Trax, Kindred Sounds Label Group, as well as Cubic Digital, Tarantic, Shiva, Slanted House, Telepathy Digital, Progress, Ambiosphere, etc. With frequent releases Luke is becoming known at an exceptionally fast rate. Luke's remix of Booka Shade's "Regenerate" is to be released on Booka Shade/ Get Physical Music and he has also released remixes of the Presslaboys, Tony Thomas, Jan van Lier, and many more. Well known artists have remixed his tracks such as Kriece (Kindred Sounds Label Group), Tony Thomas (Cubic Records, Shiva Records, Telepathy Digital) Jan Van Lier (Definitive, Teggno) Dj Hal, Daniel Mehes (Barouque, Kindred), and the Z-Listers to name a few. The Z-Listers remix of Luke Mandala's FIRST release (with Jan van Lier) "Sasquatch" reached 54 on the Beatport Charts
Activated Recordings is launched by Luke in November 2008 for which he has been the creative director ever since. Activated Recordings so far includes artists such as Kriece, Tony Thomas, Jan Van Lier, Taurus and Veggeli, Daniel Mehes, Hector Villanueva, himself, and others. Check it out here at MySpace.com/ActivatedRecordings. Website is currently being updated.
Alias' for different styles of music he releases:
-Mythicall
-Remembrance - Tribal/Techno
-Tingly - Slower Tempos/Ambient
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Beatport> beatport.com/artist/Luke_Mandala
Facebook> http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001262104894
Soundcloud> soundcloud.com/luke-mandala
Email> LukeMandala@hotmail.com
Myspace> www.myspace.com/mandalatracks
ActivatedRecordings@hotmail.com
MySpace.com/ActivatedRecordings
Labels> Get Physical, Definitive, Baroque, Manual, Future Lovers, Kindred Sounds, Cubic, Tarantic, Activated, Etc.
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