Hux Flux

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.

Career

Tapper began producing after attending forest parties near Örebro, Sweden, forming Hux Flux in 1998. Early singles included “Time Slices / Perceptor”, followed by the debut album Cryptic Crunch (1999) on Koyote Records, later remastered by Avatar/ProFile. He subsequently worked with Henric Fietz, resulting in tracks such as “Idiot” and “Bring Your Own BIOS”.

A second album, Division by Zero (2003), appeared on Spiral Trax, and a third, Circle Sine Sound (2015), was released on Z-Plane Records.

Tapper also co-founded the psydub/ambient project Illuminus with Magnus Holte, releasing the album Sweep Dreams (2015) on Z-Plane Records.

On 15 May 2018, Tapper died after an accidental drowning in a lake near his home. He was 43.

Discography

Albums

• Cryptic Crunch (Koyote Records, 1999; remastered Avatar/ProFile, 2006)
• Division by Zero (Spiral Trax, 2003)
• Circle Sine Sound (Z-Plane Records, 2015)

Selected singles and EPs

• “Time Slices / Perceptor” (Koyote Records, 1998).
• “Motor / S.T.P. Something” (Koyote Records, 1998–1999).
• “Reflux / Java Junkies” (with Palombini Power; Spiral Trax, 1999).
• “Lex Rex Perplex / Errorhead” (Spiral Trax, 2000).

Legacy

Cryptic Crunch is frequently cited as a classic of late-90s psytrance and a precursor to later forest-psy sounds.

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