Lakker

Lakker is a Berlin-based experimental techno duo consisting of Dublin natives Dara Smith and Ian McDonnell. Since the early 2000s, they've crafted an uncompromising body of work marked by bitterly icy textures, stirring field recordings, broken rhythmic patterns, and punishing bass, evoking Arctic landscapes as well as intense, weekend-long club sessions. Following the challenging experimentation of the duo's debut, 2007's Ruido, Lakker gradually began issuing more danceable (but still unsettling) material, culminating in the ambitious 2015 full-length Tundra. Reflecting an in...