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Matt Mullen

"I never want the sample to be the whole thing - I want to mask it": Loukeman reveals his favourite plugins and unusual production techniques

Loukeman.

PLUGIN WEEK 2025: Working under the alias Loukeman, Toronto’s Luke Fenton makes fuzzy, fractured beats that sound like they’re breaking apart at the seams.

Lifting vocals from pop, indie and R&B, Fenton runs his samples through pitch-shifters and saturators to gift them with ghostly textures, before setting them against fizzing synth lines and crunchy analogue drums.

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