About

This starts long before the first edition. Luka alone in his room with a loopstation, building whole tracks out of one voice with nobody in there to hear it. Then it worked. The videos found people, the people kept coming, and what he was doing for himself turned into a name the scene knew.

Everything after that came from the people on the way. Years of stages and battles across Europe, artists who inspired him, artists who became friends. Loop Mayhem grew straight out of that. It was the first time the loopstation was taken out of the battle bracket and given a night of its own: no rounds, no scoreboard, no category inside somebody else's event. Just artists playing full sets, because the set is the point. That is the part worth saying plainly. A discipline that had always been a guest at someone else's night finally stood on its own.

And that is still what the night is. Everything you hear gets built in front of you, once, and then it is gone. In a time when anything can be generated, an hour of sound that exists only because someone stood in a room and made it is the one thing nobody can fake.

And this only exists because of all of us. Everyone who played it, filmed it, mixed it, hosted it, shared a post, bought a ticket or stood in the front row for an artist they had never heard of before that night. Without you people, the room would just be a room.