London’s dynamic duo L E N K E bring you a fresh slice of electronic bliss with their brand-new single Utopia, released 21st August on ARRVL as the inaugural single from their upcoming album Utopia, released 6th September.
Rewind back to London, 2017. Lenny Raveney and Kevin Coyne meet on a night out through a mutual friend. Both already accomplished DJs and producers, the pair immediately hit it off. That very evening, they went back to Len’s and immediately started making music. Len and Kev became L E N K E.
A few months after, the pair travelled to Ibiza. Inspired by nights at Camelphat and Solomun +1 at Pacha, and Afterlife at Privilege, L E N K E’s trademark sound started to come together in a melting pot of House, Techno and Breaks. The rest is history. 2023’s Solise saw support from Paul Van Dyk and was featured in six different Beatport Top 10 Charts. The pair have shared lineups with DJs such as Danny Howard, Markus Schulz, W&W, and Judge Jules.
L E N K E feel they have now reached a musical utopia, their sound being crafted and perfected into a truly exquisite album inspired by artists like Artbat, Bookashade, 8Kays, Massano, Space Motion.
The title track (and third single from the album) Utopia embodies their sonic utopia perfectly. A MOOG modular beat and layers of progressive delay synths echo and intertwine, joined a few bars in by utterly wicked hi-hats. From here, Utopia grows every bar, brooding and building like Kraftwerk’s prodigious grandchild, until a delicious New Order style drum fill at two and a half minutes.
Utopia builds again with a beautiful keyboard line until three minutes where phasers are set to kill. If your hands aren’t in the air yet they should be as Utopia drags you onto the machine-smoke-filled dancefloor, green strobe lights cutting though the fog. What a way to announce their album.
The end of 2024 looks bright for L E N K E as the buzz grows and grows around them, the album promo receiving incredible feedback from Joris Voorn, Maceo Plex, Richie Hawtin, Nolan, Just
Her, Luke Garcia, John 00 Flemming, and Graham Gold, to name a few. Stay tuned for some very exciting details of the full album soon.
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