LudoWic

From the present towards the past and then straight back to the future: Over the last ten years, hardly any other producer on the European music scene has been able to blend the piercing sound of analogue synthesisers with cutting-edge genre styles – ranging from IDM, minimal techno, electro house, video-game music, and ambient – with such virtuosity as Matheus Lodewijk, aka LudoWic. On his debut album, “A Blinding Light Moment” (2015), the Limburg-based artist celebrated nuanced timbres in symbiosis with organic beats, creating a true gem of contemporary electronic music that remains known to very few to this day. From then on, he consistently developed this stylistic diversity further, beyond all trends. In collaboration with Bill Kiley, for instance, he released the furious soundtrack to “Katana ZERO” (2019), turned to sacred drone walls on “Linescapes” (2023), and crafted minimalist soundscapes on “Super8 Memory” (2024) ranging from prog electronics to chamber orchestral arrangements in delicate shades of grey. In the meantime, he acquired a Trautonium – the precursor to all modern synthesizers that was developed in 1930 – and has mastered it like almost no one else on the planet. Futurism and nostalgia, experimentation and conception merge in LudoWic’s work into cinematic soundscapes, which he conjures up in his live shows like a magician from another era.