Luke Vibert

Big Soup (Mo Wax/ffrr)
by Rowan-Morrison

If you were to read the dossier on Luke Vibert, you wouldn’t find anything surprising. He’s a British DJ. Surprise! He’s only 24. Surprise! The last thing, which actually is surprising in this competitive field, is that he does good work. Big Soup delivers some sample-basted, old school-flavored funkhop that will appeal to fans of the Beasties’ Check Your Head material. Granted, Vibert doesn’t rely on vocals and his mixes are clean, but his laid-back to fast track grooves pack the right kind of aesthetic to win over most of the Grand Royal die-hards. Although scratching isn’t one of his primary ingredients, he does add a little slice and dice now and then, but it’s the diversity of his songs that will attract the fans. Percussionwise, Vibert incorporates a lot of live sounding jazz beats, rather than a bunch of generic 808 loops, resulting in a human element that is often nonexistent in the cyber realm. This is one “Luke” who can say “Fuck the Force, the Empire will soon be mine.”
(www.mowax.com)