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”. 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.
Discography
Albums
- Cryptic Crunch (Koyote Records, 1999; remastered Avatar/ProFile, 2006)
- “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.