This is pop-inflected techno that references perreo to classical, this is Luca Eck’s Consumed EP, this is another hit from the label Bamboo Artist. Off the release, nmypho (featuring Six Sex and Shoki) has already been celebrated on the Dazed playlist for March 2024. Meanwhile the track sexo no tradicional, featuring just Buenos Aires’ perreo-rave siren Six Sex is near-identical, but with no fun German spoken word rap interludes, is racking up the streams.
Friday just gone; Luca Eck’s live debut invited revellers to dance the night away in the artist’s hometown of Berlin at Trauma Bar und Kino. Don’t worry if you missed it, Luca Eck is back performing again 31st August at RSO.Berlin. The EP takes us on a wild ride, accompanied by some super exciting collaborators including vocalist Coco-Paloma, LA-born cross-disciplinary producer Izzy Camina, British-Nigerian producer and singer Tony Njoku, and Colombian rapper, DJ, and performer Perra Inmunda, who all contributed along with the other artists already mentioned.
Dark cool aesthetics surround the project, that has a Saltburn 2.0 music video (for run from me) shot in Scotland, since the musician lives between Glasgow and Berlin. The album artwork feels very of the moment too, even if it looks like it was shot on a flip-phone. In terms of concept, Luca Eck describes the EP as “a thoughtful exploration of themes surrounding gender, sexuality, and identity. […] Set in a near-future dystopia where human emotion is the world’s most valuable resource, the EP offers five unique takes from the global love data network, an infrastructure holding the sum of human depth where love addicts share secrets, confessions, and endless yearning.” That sense of yearning is tied up in the imagery of Luca who poses in shiny tactile leather and devilish horn sculpted hair.
A multilingual masterpiece, Consumed EP deals in multitudes, never limited to one language or one position. Luca Eck’s non-binary gender might play a part in this expression that feels boundless, switching from the echoing monastic feeling opener no creo to sexed-up closing track nympho. If emotion is the new currency, Consumed showers us in notes of all currencies.
