Lux Voltaire

Lux Voltaire

Lux Voltaire are a Sydney-based electropop and future pop-styled music group. Lux Voltaire consider themselves 'neuropunk'. Lux Voltaire are currently invading the Sydney goth scene with their brand of neuropunk.

Infobox musical artist
Name = Lux Voltaire
Background = group_or_band


Years_active = Late 1990s to present
Origin = flagicon|AUS Sydney, Australia
Genre = Electronica
:abel =
Current_members = Luthor X Brendan Creaven
James Ryan
former members
James Mothership
Lady K
URL = [http://www.luxvoltaire.com www.luxvoltaire.com]

History

Luthor X began life in Lismore, New South Wales, playing the Uni/Pub circuit alongside Grinspoon, Spawn and Headlifter. After collaborating with Spawn, Luthor X formed SPIRE and relocated to Melbourne. Here he worked with Tankt in its embryonic stages while pursuing his own music as Lux Voltaire. Employing two talented cabaret and stage-fighting artists, Lux Voltaire began playing live around Melbourne and then Sydney in 2003. "(source and credit: badpauly of Fiend Magazine)"

This version of Lux Voltaire featured James Mothership (samples and vocals), and Lady K (synthesizer and vocals). The trio played several shows until late 2004 when the two new members departed to pursue acting/cabaret careers.

Lux has since collaborated with Resurrection Eve, and remixed for Jekyll Switch, Snog and Tankt as well as numerous other unsigned outfits.

In early 2005 as the album "Prey For Uncertainty" was completed Lux enlisted the current group members of James Ryan (backing vocals, synthesizer) and Brendan Creaven (bass and electric guitar), combining elements as diverse as synthpop, electropop, darkwave, glam and experimental sounds, and heavily utilising vintage Roland and Oberheim synthesisers as well as modern software synthesisers. Later that year Lux Voltaire was one of the first members of the new Gothic-Industrial-Electronic collective Crash Frequency.

2006 saw Lux Voltaire the "Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim" mini album, radio airplay followed with FBi, 2SER-fm and 2RRR-fm supporting the release. The mini album contains remixes from TankT, Bassmasta B (aka Brendan Creaven), Angel Theory amongst other notables. James Ryan (also The Horse Museum) relocated to Melbourne and his status with the band is unsure.

Lux Voltaire has also diverged into a number of side projects including S.E.O. 90, Le Choc Electrique and Winter Palace, exploring genres as from ambient to electronica. Despite only a few "official" releases being in circulation, there is a breadth of this material - released and unreleased, and it is expected that Lux Voltaire will release new material, potentially under the Winter Palace psuedonym at some stage.

Major events

* VNV Nation's Formation World Tour 2005 (support along with The Crystalline Effect)
* Real Life reformation tour 2005 (support along with Bleepin' J. Squawkins)
* #8 on the Danish Alternative charts with "Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim" "(source: Fiend Magazine via Australian Darkwave Charts)"
* Under The Blue Moon Festival 2006 in Sydney, this show featured the legendary electro act Nitzer Ebb.

Discography

Albums

*"Prey For Uncertainty" (2005 - Crash Frequency/Dice Head)
*"Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim" (2006 - Crash Frequency/Dice Head)

Compilations

*Crash Frequency Australian Independent Darkwave Volume 1 - 2005 (song: Ich Liebe Mein Oberheim)
*Crash Frequency Australian Independent Darkwave Volume 2 - 2006 (songs: Dreamtime, Despite You)
*Fiend Magazine - CD #2 - 2007 (song: Molly)

Remixes

*Jekyll Switch - "(Yellow Sediment appears on the "A Horrible Pact" album, 2000)"
*TankT - "(godlike dead patriarch mix appears on the "Devolution" album, 2002)"
*The Process Void - "(Lethargy appears on Crash Frequency Volume 2" double album, 2006)"

External links

* [http://www.luxvoltaire.com LuxVoltaire.com]
* [http://www.chaindlk.com/reviews/index.php?search=lux+voltaire&type=music Chalk DLK (USA) Reviews Lux Voltaire]
* [http://www.side-line.com/reviews_comments.php?id=8107_0_17_0_C?ref=hikayee.net Side-Line Online reviews "Prey For Uncertainty"]
* [http://www.elektrauma.de/rezensionen.php4?KritikNummer=1076 Elektrauma (Germany) reviews "Prey For Uncertainty"] de icon


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