The Berlin-based artist and producer talks pop marketing, self-transformation and the power of Power with SsensecontributorTheaBallard.
“Lotic, the producer born J’Kerian Morgan, often delivers an idea or observation in a self-effacing drawl, punctuated with hyperbole. It’s a habit of speech that injects levity into the conversation, and crystallizes exactly what’s being said: while you’re laughing—perhaps a little hysterically, because Lotic is very funny—their point gets locked into your consciousness. They’re explaining to me how their relationship to nightclubs has changed, and the relatable sensation of feeling old on a now-rare visit to a Berlin club. “I don’t really go out anymore unless I’m getting paid,” they say, barely joking. “Club trends happen so fast. I feel like I missed two generations by now.”
“It may be surprising to hear such a sentiment from a producer and DJ who, alongside peers like Total Freedom and Leonce, not to mention their local affiliates from the club night and label JANUS, is a key architect of one of the defining aesthetics of 2010s dance music. Their notoriously genre-agnostic sets were game-changing, frenetic weavings of Jersey club, bounce, and pop with otherworldly sonic interjections that seemed to corrode the boundaries between tracks. In moments, it was as if Lotic had fully rewritten that Beyoncé song from scratch—reverently, of course. In the years since, with club trends mutating and whirring by, their work as a producer has steadily become too expansive and unruly to be contained to just the dance floor.”
Watch the video for ‘Hunted’ fromPowerbelow and learn more about Lotic’s Rewire 2019 performance Endless PoweratLotic.
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