Hux Flux
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Dennis Rickard Tapper (18 November 1974 – 15 May 2018), known professionally as Hux Flux, was a Swedish psychedelic trance producer. His music blended Goa and psytrance aesthetics with an effects-driven, mechanical sound that became influential in the late 1990s and early 2000s.<ref name="Trancentral-10">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Career
Tapper began producing after attending forest parties near Örebro, Sweden, forming Hux Flux in 1998.<ref name="ADE">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Early singles included “Time Slices / Perceptor”, followed by the debut album Cryptic Crunch (1999) on Koyote Records, later remastered by Avatar/ProFile.<ref name="Avatar-CC">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He subsequently worked with Henric Fietz, resulting in tracks such as “Idiot” and “Bring Your Own BIOS”.<ref name="Trancentral-10" />
A second album, Division by Zero (2003), appeared on Spiral Trax,<ref name="DBZ-discogs">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and a third, Circle Sine Sound (2015), was released on Z-Plane Records.<ref name="ZPlane-CSS">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Tapper also co-founded the psydub/ambient project Illuminus with Magnus Holte, releasing the album Sweep Dreams (2015) on Z-Plane Records.<ref name="ZPlane-Illuminus">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="ADE" />
On 15 May 2018, Tapper died after an accidental drowning in a lake near his home. He was 43.<ref name="Orbmag">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Mushroom">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Discography
Albums
- Cryptic Crunch (Koyote Records, 1999; remastered Avatar/ProFile, 2006)<ref name="Avatar-CC" />
- Division by Zero (Spiral Trax, 2003)<ref name="DBZ-discogs" />
- Circle Sine Sound (Z-Plane Records, 2015)<ref name="ZPlane-CSS" />
Selected singles and EPs
- “Time Slices / Perceptor” (Koyote Records, 1998).<ref name="Avatar-CC" />
- “Motor / S.T.P. Something” (Koyote Records, 1998–1999).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- “Reflux / Java Junkies” (with Palombini Power; Spiral Trax, 1999).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- “Lex Rex Perplex / Errorhead” (Spiral Trax, 2000).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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Legacy
Cryptic Crunch is frequently cited as a classic of late-90s psytrance and a precursor to later forest-psy sounds.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Trancentral-10" />