luke stokes (lse)
chicago based DJ, deezal records founder, and co-host of abstract science.
Luke has been making a name for himself over the last decade while working with Martin Atkins’s invisible records / underground inc. (98-03) as well as John Hughes III’s Hefty Records (05-06).
He has been involved in radio since 1995 when he started work for 88.1-KCOU in Columbia, MO as a dj/producer/music director. In 1999, Luke joined Chris Widman & Henry Self’s radio program abstract science, now based out of Chicago on award-winning station 88.7-WLUW. In the last year he’s opened for such artists as Plaid, Monolake, Amon Tobin, The Field, Roger O’Donnell (x-cure), Christopher Willits, Dosh, the Cinematic Orchestra & UNKLE.
Over the last decade Luke has also been touring heavily and handling management & merchandiser responsibilities on the road. He has worked for such acts as Damien Rice, Dope, Gravity Kills, Godhead, Mudhoney, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Supreme Beings of Leisure, Pigface, the Baldwin Brothers, Chris Connelly, Bile, Meg Lee Chin, The Rolling Blackouts, Jaga Jazzist, Sheep on Drugs and countless others while on tour alongside artists such Disturbed, Corrosion of Conformity, Black Label Society, Static X, Powerman 5000, & Mushroomhead.
Luke has recently been published in a new book entitled Tour:Smart...a 500+ page book that looks first-hand at the business of touring, with input from over 100 industry professionals. It will be used as a text book at Columbia University and is available at book stores across the country.
email: luke at abstractscience.net
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