Irish-born producer and DJ Luciid pushes beyond the boundaries of hard techno on REELUV, his expansive 14-track debut album via Be Yourself Music, weaving together schranz, trance, breakbeat, melodic and cinematic electronics into a deeply personal statement on burnout, self-discovery and falling back in love with music.
Irish-born producer and DJ LUCIID has released his debut album REELUV on 22 May 2026 via Be Yourself Music. A sprawling 14-track body of work, including a bonus Schranz edit, REELUV marks a pivotal reinvention for an artist who rose to global prominence on the back of the hard techno movement, but who refused to be defined by it.
The album arrives off the back of extraordinary momentum: the first three EP releases from the REELUV project have already accumulated over 2 million combined streams, and LUCIID now commands over 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Singles Hard Truths, Pray, and Charm all charted in the Beatport Hard Techno Top 10, confirming the project’s immediate impact before the full album has even landed.
REELUV is not a collection of club tools. It is a confession. Written during a period of creative burnout and personal reckoning, the album documents LUCIID’s journey from disillusionment back to a genuine love of music. Tracks like “6AM” and “Sakura” were made during the pandemic while Luke was studying in Dundalk; others were written in hotel rooms on tour across Europe. The title says it plainly: this is the story of falling back in love.
Spanning schranz, breakbeat, melodic techno, hard techno, euphoric trance, and cinematic electronics, REELUV is a record that defies easy categorisation. Warehouse-grade kicks collide with shimmering trance breakdowns. Emotionally direct vocals carry the weight of festival anthems, reshaped with restraint and nuance. The album is simultaneously nostalgic and completely new, drawing on twenty years of electronic music history and firing it into the present with fresh intent.
Rather than a standard album drop, LUCIID delivered REELUV in multiple steps, each EP arriving in its own time, demanding that listeners engage deeply rather than scroll past. It is a deliberate rejection of swipe culture, and a statement of intent about the kind of artistry LUCIID wants to build.
“This album is not a quick hit,” LUCIID explains. “It is a collection that brings you on a journey through emotion, energy, and my own personal struggles. I want people to feel an emotional connection to each song.”
“I’ve called it ‘Reeluv’ as it’s about falling in love with music as an art form again,” he adds. “My scene has, to a point, really stepped away from a focus on music itself, demanding online attention instead. I want this record, and all its genres, to bring people back to music.”