Louie and Lucas are brothers who produce and dj together out of london. their beatport page files them under underground house, working a deeper blend of deep tech and percussive grooves with nods to older club records.
the label run opened in 2021. Step Closer landed on snatch! records on 8 april 2021 and picked up a jansons remix that july. Obsessed followed on saved records on 8 october 2021. kaluki musik took the Jack Me ep on 8 march 2024, and defected carried one of their remixes on the amame remix package on 21 june 2024. Trust Me, cut with ben westbeech for solid grooves on 8 may 2026, tops beatport's own popularity ranking for the pair.
koba is three things sharing one name. KOBA Records is the imprint they launched in the first quarter of 2026, described on their beatport page as a platform where music, art, fashion and community collide. green room is a live set recording platform. koba is also the london event series they curate, and a fourth strand called buzzcutz reworks underground tracks into club tools.
the first two koba records releases arrived together on 10 july 2026, Call Me and Pasalo. the koba launch party at bricks in london on 20 february 2026 sold out, and the series returned to vittoria wharf studio in hackney wick on 23 may 2026 with ollie bc.
they played defected's croatia festival at the garden in tisno in july 2026 and xoyo in london on 18 july 2026 alongside jasper james. next is fabric in london on 7 august 2026, in room three for tommy gold & friends. after that they are on the defected bill at chinois in ibiza on 24 september 2026 with carl craig, Eats Everything, jordan peak and shae reid b2b siân owen.
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