Luis Ake

In the organizer's words:

Three open shirt buttons, a cleavage up to the solar plexus, well-cut threads on an athletic body - this is the first impression of Luis Ake, a contemporary artist who is surrounded by a host of questions. Has he really built a machine that can create love? With his tie and signet ring, is he really the nouveau riche son of a noble family from Württemberg or does he steal his jackets from the checkroom of a casino in the west of Munich? Or is this mysterious man with his masquerade perhaps the true dandy of our time? When he steps out of his vintage Porsche car, his face filled with an expression of agonized sadness, at least one thing is clear: his suit fits perfectly and his suffering is genuine.

His full lips, narrow hips and forlorn gaze speak the poetry of his pop music, which is characterized by exaggeration and sentimental affirmation. His poses of glamorous masculinity, from the gold chain to the tie, which are broken in an instant by his never-hidden vulnerability, which can be heard in every one of his songs, prove the phrase that pop is about more than music right.

His theme is love. This is also the title of his second album "Liebe". Like the first album "Bitte lass mich frei", it was praised both as a contemporary interpretation of German pop music and interpreted as a new pop song - everyone agrees that Luis Ake's first two albums paved the way for Neue Neue Deutsche Welle.

Luis Ake started out in his childhood bedroom in Stuttgart with excessive guitar playing, which attracted international attention early on. Travis Scott, Kenrick Llamar and Kanye West helped themselves to samples from the then 19-year-old and used them for their songs (e.g. "goosebumps"). But since then, the young talent has become a man, an artist who is not only known for his expressive stage show, but Ake is also in demand as a remixer. Acts that could hardly be more different, such as Edwin Rosen, Saló and Roy Bianco & the Abbrunzati Boys, asked Ake to mix their songs. Together with DANZIGER99, Ake wrote the song "regen", which went viral.

2023 Luis Ake's EP "Horse Trance - Melodies of Freedom" was released. With ten new songs, Ake founded the music genre of "Horse Trance". This is music that is not just a reinterpretation of trance, D'n'B, house and electro, but remains pop despite its danceability. As if Ake had driven the club sound of the returning noughties onto the kitschy paddock, inoculated it with the new melodiousness of the sped-up scene and at the same time not forgotten his influences from pop and 80s wave - "Horse Trance - Melodies of Freedom" is an impressive continuation of his last album, which is both new and goes far beyond it, as an EP it seems like a fork in the long road of his extraordinarily independent work.