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Biography
cleanup|date=May 2010Infobox musical artist||name = Luke Vibert|image = Luke_Vibert_2.JPG|caption = Luke Vibert performing at Liquid Lounge in Cork City 21/11/08|image_size =|background = non_vocal_instrumentalist|birth_name = Luke Francis Vibert|alias = Plug Wagon Christ Kerrier District The Ace Of Clubs Amen Andrews Spac Hand Luke Butler Kiev|birth_date = Birth date and age|1973|1|26|mf=y|death_date =|origin = Redruth , Cornwall , United Kingdom|UK |instrument =|genre = Electronic music Acid techno Drum and bass|Jungle music Acid Jazz cite web | url= http://www.weeklywire.com/ww/03-28-00/boston_music_clips.html | title=*** Luke Vibert and BJ Cole STOP THE PANIC (Astralwerks) | publisher=Boston Phoenix (online magazine) | work=Music review | date=March 28, 2000 | accessdate=June 24, 2011 | author=Michael Endelman | paragraph=5th from top|occupation =|years_active = 1993 to present|label = Rephlex Records|Rephlex , Ninja Tune , Astralwerks , Warp (record label)|Warp , Nothing Records |associated_acts = Voafose|Jeremy Simmonds , B.J. Cole , Jean-Jacques Perrey |website = http://brainwashed.com/vibert/ Brainwashed pageLuke Vibert is a United Kingdom|British recording artist and producer known for his work in many subgenres of electronic music . Vibert began his musical career as a member of the Hate Brothers, only later branching out into his own compositions. Vibert has recorded under several different aliases, most notably Plug and Wagon Christ .
Early Years: 1990s
Vibert's first musical output was in a variety of bands, including a punk rock|punk act called Five Minute Fashion and later a Beastie Boys -esque group called the Hate Brothers, but he quickly moved into the low-cost environment of solo electronic composition. Although Vibert originally had no intention of ever releasing any of the work, his reputation as a creative young voice in his field has created a demand for his work.
Vibert originally became involved in electronic music through his interest for Hip hop music|hip-hop as well as the environment of bedroom experimentalism associated with the swelling late-'80s UK dance scene. Luke and a friend, Jeremy Simmonds , released an album through the Rephlex label under the name of Vibert/Simmonds which caught the ear of Caspar Pound's Rising High music label . As a result of the popularity of the style in the early 90's, the label commissioned an ambient music album from Vibert, who delivered the well-received Phat Lab Nightmare under the alias Wagon Christ in 1993.
He would go on further over the next few years to produce more music under the Wagon Christ alias, as well as introducing more aliases such as Plug (drum and bass/jungle), with the 1996 album 'Drum and Bass for Papa' which gained critical acclaim.
2000 and onwards
In late 1999 and 2000, Vibert began touring with BJ Cole to promote their fusion album Stop the Panic . In 2002, he would begin a series of live collaborations with Aphex Twin . Although Aphex Twin and Luke Vibert never released an album together, Aphex Twin used the song name " Analord ", from Vibert's album '' Lover's Acid '', for a Analord|series of EPs . Vibert's later releases varied in style as he released albums under various aliases, including Plug , Amen Andrews , Kerrier District and Spac Hand Luke . "Amen Andrews" is a word play on the name of Ireland|Irish game show host Eamonn Andrews , referring to the fact that each Amen Andrews track uses the Amen break . In 2004, Vibert explored acid disco when he remixed a Black Devil song, which was released on Disco Club (Remix) and released his first album under the alias Kerrier District. In 2006, a collection of vintage Plug drum n bass songs were released on Here It Comes (Plug EP)|Here It Comes EP .
In 2006, Vibert's song "Shadows" was featured on the DJ mix album A Bugged Out Mix (Miss Kittin album)|A Bugged Out Mix by Miss Kittin ,cite web |url= http://www.discogs.com/Miss-Kittin-A-Bugged-Out-Mix-By-Miss-Kittin/release/674304 |title=Miss Kittin - A Bugged Out Mix By Miss Kittin (CD)|accessdate=2011-01-29|author=|year=|work= Discogs |publisher=Zink Media, Inc which charted at number one-hundred seventy on the Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique|French Albums Chart .cite web|url= http://www.ultratop.be/fr/showitem.asp? interpret=Miss+Kittin& titel=A+Bugged+Out+Mix+By+Miss+Kittin& cat=a|title=ultratop.be - Miss Kittin - A Bugged Out Mix By Miss Kittin|language=French|work= Ultratop |publisher=Hung Medien|accessdate=2011-01-29 In 2009, he contributed a cover of LFO (band)|LFO 's song "LFO" to the Warp20 (Recreated) compilation.
Critical reception
"It was under the alias of Wagon Christ (along with other equally vital monikers like Plug, Vibert & Simmonds, and later more simply in his own name) that Vibert helped to redefine the rules of electronic music in the UK in the early to mid '90s - alongside a bunch of reprehensible mates that included Richard D. James (a.k.a. Aphex Twin ), Tom Jenkinson ( Squarepusher ), Mike Paradinas ( µ-Ziq ), Chris Jeffs ( Cylob ), and the labels Rephlex and Warp," assessed journalist Andrez Bergen in an article that appeared in Japan's Daily Yomiuri newspaper in 2003.
"Together they assimilated such diverse elements as hip hop beats and drum & bass into the more eccentric take on electronica they tweaked, and kick-started a virtual insurrection in sound around the world." Vibert Admits Moral Bankruptcy , Andrez Bergen. Daily Yomiuri , October 2003.
Allmusic|class=artist|id=p144118|pure_url=yesWagon Christ Biography at Allmusic
http://forum.watmm.com/index.php? showforum=20 Luke Vibert forum at WATMM
http://www.tvclick.ru/channel/keksmusic/19575/ Puffing Away Video at TV-Click
References
reflist Nothing Records Persondata | NAME =Vibert, Luke | ALTERNATIVE NAMES = | SHORT DESCRIPTION = | DATE OF BIRTH =January 26, 1973 | PLACE OF BIRTH = | DATE OF DEATH = | PLACE OF DEATH = DEFAULTSORT:Vibert, Luke Category:Astralwerks artists Category:Braindance musicians Category:English electronic musicians Category:People from Redruth Category:People educated at Truro School Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Ninja Tune artists Category:Nothing Records artists
