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“I want people to feel an emotional connection to each song, and the only way to do that is not to overwhelm them with 10+ tracks. A lot of the album will be a completely new experience for my fans, so why rush it? This album reflects a time in my life when I didn’t know what the future brought, so why should the listener know?”
That uncertainty sits at the core of Reeluv. The title itself is a confes- sion that, at one point, Luciid lost it. He lost the fire, the obsession, the reason he started in the first place.
“I never liked being labelled a hard techno producer, but over time I noticed myself blending into this scene and losing my creative spark,” he admits. “I became just another DJ playing and producing the hardest music just to remain relevant. Even after playing the biggest stages, I’d go back to the hotel and feel unfulfilled, sitting up all night thinking about what I could have done better. That guilt was heavy. I had everything I dreamed of only two years before, so why wasn’t I happy?”
The answer was simple but brutal: he had fallen out of love with music. Reeluv became the way back in. “I really struggled with this and definitely entered a dark place in 2024, but that’s what brought about Reeluv. It’s a body of work I’m proud of because it forced me to reconnect with the only thing that really matters, the music itself.”
The reconnection wasn’t easy. At first, every session in the studio felt like a fight with doubt.
“I remember being halfway through writing ‘Sakura’ and thinking, ‘Who actually gives a shit about this? I should be making content right now. I just took a break from social media and focused my entire energy on creating something amazing, with
no rules and no boundaries. It went from being a challenge to sit down for an hour to being hard to leave the studio after 10. That’s when I knew this album was different. It reignited something inside me; it reconnected me with my younger self. And my PC became inseparable again. This wasn’t just making tracks; it was falling
A reeluv.” back in love. A rebirth.
PURITY IN THE NOISE Growing up isolated in Ireland, Luciid had no scene to shape him, no blueprint to copy. It was a matter of instinct, trial and error, and hours spent locked away with his laptop. That purity stayed with him for years, until the weight of global attention pushed him toward trends he didn’t even like.
“I think over time I adapted my producing more to suit the dance- floor, taking inspiration from gig videos I saw from other DJs,” he admits. “I was completely in the mindset that I had to make a track that would demolish a dancefloor. In the hard techno scene, everyone was competing to make the hardest, goofiest track just to stand out. I fell into that, too, but even then I tried to keep some integrity. Now I couldn’t care less what people are doing. I’m making music you can sit with, music that locks you in and makes you forget about your problems. If people want to hear that in a club, even better. But I
productions get swayed into trends again.”
That change in attitude also forced him to redefine what success even means. He’s already had Beatport Number Ones, sold-out shows, and festival slots most DJs dream of. But none of that felt like enough.
will not let my
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