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Hi Luke! How has 2005 been for you? Hi mate, 2005 has been an exciting year for me so far. I've been made resident for the Saturday party 123 and for the mighty Addiction, which I'm chuffed about. Through Addiction I've had sets in Ibiza various nights around London and have just recently played the Heat voyage to Germany which was a blast. What was your proudest achievement? My proudest achievement would have to be my track Solar Flare. I spent 3 solid days in my studio writing this and then took it to Nick Rowland who engineered and mastered it for me. I'm not going to big it up too much because I don't want to come across big-headed but if you like trance on the harder tip then I'm sure you'll love it! It's been signed to Addiction Digital and will be available for download from 1st of January along with another track of mine, Blinded by the Truth. What's going on at Addiction, the free party you are a resident for? As you have probably heard the Addiction Digital label was launched, so a lot of time has gone in to that. It has been well worth it though since from the word go it been a huge success. Well the parties are finished for the year but Addiction is back in January as usual on the 1st and 3rd week of every month. The line ups we have in store too are amazing. There are 3 other big projects to but you'll have to wait and see what that's about How did you become a resident there in the first place? Well I knew FunkyFranky (Andy T's girlfriend and Addiction resident) from when I was about 13 and didn't see her for years, then she randomly popped round my house one day and saw I was into DJing. I sent her a demo and then Andy called me. I started going out with them and all became good friends. This was before Addiction was even started. Then one day he asked me to be resident. Bit like Sliding Doors really! What would you realistically like to achieve in 2006? Well been setting up a studio over the past year and put all my spare time in to that. I would love to become a respected producer and quite an established DJ, and play Ibiza again You will be playing for Blast vs Convergence at Hidden in South London this Saturday 10th December. How did this booking come about? Well got a phone call from Elvis from Frantic who is a good mate of mine from old too and he asked if I was available to play. So I said yeah of course! Have you had a chance to check out the new venue yet? Tell you the truth I've never been. But I heard it's a quality venue In fact, how often do you go clubbing outside of your DJing commitments and where do you go? Well used to go out as much as I can but lately I've been working so hard in the studio I've kind of stopped going out. Once I've got my production to a good standard then I'll be out like bells on fire What makes up a typical Luke Warner set? Which producers and labels can be found filling up your box on a regular basis? Tunes that are doing it for me at the moment ummmm - where shall I start. Well obviously my 6 tracks, Solar Flare, Blinded by the Truth, Vengeance, Deception, Feel's Good and Move ya Body which was a collaboration with the one and only gods gift, Dave Mac. I have the privilege of having all the upfront tunes from Addiction Digital and they are all fantastic especially Andy T's tune Intelligent Groove which is out now for download. I was handed two CDs form Andy the other day with a tune called My Destination by Aftershock which will be out on the 1st of Feb and one called It Picks Me Up by Rich C and Barry Diston which will probably be out in March. Also a tune from Olly Perris called Pss-21 and a tune from Ashley James called Hunted which will be out on the 1st of Feb as well. These are wicked and well worth checking. Also loving Justin Fry - Free You Mind at the moment. This is what I'll be playing on Saturday it will be driving and very uplifting. As for producers, there's loads but a few to name are me J Alf Bamford, MDA & Spherical and Nick Rowland Can you play warm-up sets as well as peak-time slots or do you feel you are better adapted for one or the other? Well I play Trance, Hard Trance and Psy-trance so I can adapt but I mainly like to play quite hard so I can push my own tunes and let them be heard.