Years on – and maintaining his love of techno and house sounds, Tan is doing his radio show on Kiss FM on Wednesdays, with a decidedly deeper flavour. “We try to keep it on the down low, bring in some cool guests, that sort of thing.” Yet despite his finger being in many pies, Lucca is also kept rather busy with his own commitments. “I have my own little network and media company. With that, I have my own radio show on Kiss FM called Volatile Sounds and run a monthly event at Revolver called Mi Casa. We have our fourth birthday coming up and it’s going really well. Another event I’m running is called No Vacancy at The Flamingo which is something I’ve done over the summer, keeping the brand alive, you know?”
Indeed, his approach not only to his music but his love of hosting events and generally supporting the local scene is encapsulated by the varied roles he undertakes. “No matter what we do or what I’m a part of, we’re about featuring the best artists in the music scene. With some events we’ve gone into hibernation but I’m going to start the parties back up again. I’ve started running The Summit, which is at Circus every Sunday morning – we recently had our launch party there and I’m involved in running another party called Killing Time Saturdays as well.”
But the moral of this story is the Fourcolours party that is hitting the streets this weekend. The brainchild of Peter Suwara, another of Melbourne’s fearless underground ambassadors, the gig will bring together the very best of Melbourne’s music and creative communities. “I’ve known Peter via his work with Solar Empire,” explains Lucca. “Between him, Spiro Boursine and myself, we helped him to establish his brand. And since, we’ve had a good working relationship with him via Realityworks and we’ve met up on various things over the times, from artists, venues and artistic direction.”
And with that, The Realityworks crew presents the Fourcolours launch party this Saturday – in fact a pre launch party, as the official launch happens later this year in October. Regardless, the gig is being held at Rubix Warehouse in Brunswick. Lucca explains: “I was actually out with the crew before, and they’ve sourced some great international talent. The gig is really well pre sold too and some of the décor is going to be really funky. The event is going to be more of a show that just a gig so I’m really looking forward to that. We will have some really funky big artistic pieces up around the place with a fair bit of time and effort having gone into the production. A lot of the people playing there like Timmus, Ricky Garra, Hornsby – they’re good friends and they’re the main honchos of the whole event,” describes Lucca.
“The main launch party coming up in October is going to be a 500 capacity event, with Peter doing this idea with 4 separate colours, each representing a different concept – overall, it’s a really cool idea. Not many promoters are putting this much effort into things, but I’m really looking forward to working with him and helping him on it. At the gig this Saturday though, I’m going to go with a deeper, rolling type of groovy techno. It’s definitely more of a bush rave sort of vibe and I think I’ll be able to get away with playing a driving style. At these events, people are always up for it and with the variation between trance and techno it should be great – it’s never about ego or anything like that, it’s about having a good time.”
Hear hear.
BY RK
