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As seen in: MSN Ireland, The Guardian, The Independent (UK), Bandcamp Daily, Red Bull, Substack, Flipboard, New Musical Express (NME), The Irish Times, Miami Herald and
Writer. Irish-Vietnamese. Author of Iron Age: The Art of Ghostface Killah (2019) and Words For My Comrades (May 2025). Agent: Chris Clemans at @JanklowNesbit
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Dean: In Search of Lecs Luther’s “Fish & Chips”

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By Dean Van Nguyen Verified
| Dublin Inquirer Verified
Do you recall the name “Lecs Luther”? The ability to answer that question in the affirmative may qualify as “showing your age”. It’s a good 15 years now since Luther materialised out of the blogosphere with a series of raw, jazzy rap tunes; an MP3 apparition who distilled his love of Dublin through the internet’s weirdest filters.
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Dean: HAVVK make anxiety sound beautiful

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By Dean Van Nguyen Verified
| Dublin Inquirer Verified
Artists who attempt to generate a feeling of anxiety in their music are a brave cohort. Pursuing the sugar rush is, of course, an equally noble deed; an ability to hit the mind’s pleasure centres is a blessed skill. But making more desperate sensations palatable for audiences poses different challenges. How do you engage a part of the brain that people fear, in a way that engrosses and rather than repulses?
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Rock to the Rhythm: The Story of Lexicon

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By Dean Van Nguyen Verified
| powmag.net
Nothing of consequence should be boiled down to an elevator pitch. Certainly not in 1990s rap, when butter-flyboy weirdness, desert-eagle gangsterism, and the red-clay or “wobble-dee, wobble-dee” music coming out of the South were accelerating the culture in numerous, often disparate directions, far beyond what the gods of the old school had envisioned.
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