Lawrence Le Doux

Belgian artist Laurent Baudoux (a.k.a. Lawrence Le Doux) is a musician of many guises. Since the late ‘90s, Baudoux has worked across a range of solo and collaborative projects that have touched on everything from melodic house to IDM, weirdo rap, and ambient, all the while managing to defy classification. From his unorthodox hip-hop trio Baleine3000—which also features Japanese MC Illreme and French DJ Afrojaws—to the frenetic hardcore rhythms of his Sun OK Papi K.O. project, the more you dig into Baudoux’s back catalog, the more you wonder just how far the rabbit hole might go. . .

The majority of his work under the Lawrence Le Doux moniker has landed on label home Vlek; the latest of which, an LP titled Host, looks to the history of Belgian electronic music, melding digi dub with airy computer-driven house and gritty industrial. It also acts as a perfect starting point to Baudoux’s fascinating sonic universe.