Pluke

downtempo

When it comes to music written by (or with participation of) Eugene Valuev, you can expect almost any style or genre. He started with breakbeat back in the earliest 2000s and later produced tracks as versatile as you could imagine. There was a period of hard techno and electro. There was a period of house that you might expect from Daft Punk meeting Benni Benassi. There were electroacoustic tracks with weird lyrics. There was a time when Eugene would play a gig every weekend with what many would call the most requested and interesting band in Belarus at the moment, and there was a time when for several years the only way to listen to his new tracks was to get invited to his house. As of 2008 there is a new stage name, Pluke, and Eugene is again ready to rock your dancefloor or to lull your chillout. In fact this Pluke project started with really calm chillout tracks. Some nearly IDM and nearly ambient ones and many that would fall into downtempo and lounge categories. Then, without loosing the easy and melodic part, the music got more and more dancefloor fiendly: back in spring and early summer 2008 Eugene has played a few gigs with what you would call minimal chill house and the latest tracks are a drumandbass that you might expect from LTJ Bukem's Good Looking Records label. Not sure what will come next, but whatever style it was, it was really worth it. So, my advice would be to search for all his music and listen to it a couple of times. There definitely would be a coup...