Luccid

Upcoming UK DJ duo, specialising in UK Bass music whilst experimenting in other genres too.
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Kingston Upon Hull

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The LUCCID Story

Due to most of our social lives being mostly recently situated in Leeds, we were constantly surrounded by lots of UK bass events left right and centre at some really gritty clubs with some intense environments such as The Warehouse, Canal Mills, Mint Club, Wire Club, Beaver Works and Mint Warehouse. This allowed us not only to enjoy the music experience watching some of our favourite UK Bass artists such as Zero, Chris Lorenzo, Distinkt, Skepsis, Holy Goof, Darkzy and Sammy Virji, but also gave us a great insight to how the bass scene operated in the night-club business. It also gave us the opportunity to watch what the artists did during performance, so we were ultimately learning and developing our knowledge in the bass scene just from attending these events.

We grew a massive liking to these artists and what they were doing when seeing them perform live, they massively inspired us to start DJing ourselves. We began investing in sample packs online, and began to produce basic tracks on Logic to get us started as producers/DJ’s. We also attended Bop DJ in Leeds frequently to learn how to DJ on various different types of equipment ranging from MIDI pads, controllers and mixers/CDJ’s.

As we were both first year students at Leeds Beckett at the time (2017), our budget had was low when initially purchasing equipment. We both put together £125 each and picked up a Serato DJ SB2, a small controller with minimal controls to learn basic mixing skills within the first year of training. Over the progression of time mixing in our spare/free hours outside of uni, we became more technically adept after watching various tutorials online as well as teaching ourselves different techniques and transitions.

During September of 2018, we upgraded our equipment and bought the Rekordbox DJ 1000 controller, as well as some Pioneer studio speakers. This was a massive jump from our original controller, it had four channels, way more special effects, lots more hot cues and a track/frequency reader in the jog wheels. This was a major step up for us as technicality and beat matching was different when listening through a pair of earphones, as well as having to multitask way more when mixing. However we got to work in learning it as much as we possibly could when we weren't studying/working to really progress our DJing skills.

Once we got used to the DJ 1000, we began to contact various bars and nightclubs after establishing our original DJ brand which was Dusk n’ Dawn. However, we quickly realised after searching other results of Dusk n’ Dawn on Facebook, it already existed! This caused various issues for us when trying to set up social media business pages and get logos designed. After having a long discussion into other names, we had decided to fixate on LUCCID as it associated with dreams and nightmares, two themes which we were most passionate about exploring and enduring as a music brand.

After finally establishing our brand and evolving it through social media, we began to focus on making lots of UK Bass mixes, as well as involving tracks that offered dreamic and nightmarish sounds such as melodies and heavy warps. We studied the structures and played around with all our purchased/downloaded tracks to know which particular tracks mixed well with others which is key, knowing your songs is fundamental.

After sharing our Soundcloud mixes and samples through Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, we began to gain a lot of interest from audiences mainly situated in Hull, Leeds and Sheffield where the main bass fans are situated. This is what initialised the evolution of LUCCID in our home city of Hull: opening PRIDE at Propaganda Nightclub, playing at Adelphi Club (The Underground Music Capital of Hull) and opening a big event called WNDRLUST at The Piper Club.

We will continue to work exceptionally hard in developing our brand and exploring the musical universe, making music for all to love and groove forever to.