Dekmantel Podcast 125 - Hiele

We don’t use the world genius lightly, but young Belgian based artist Roman Hiele might be just that. In only four years, he participated the Red Bull Music Academy and has put out five albums that have proved him to be an one of a kind producer with his own inventive sound. It is informed by a wide world of musical influence from classical to ambient, juke to acid via breaks and techno. Distilling all these into his his own rhythm noise, the artist works on labels Ekster and YYAA with great success. @hielehiele is known for his outstanding live sets and records that draw the perfect landscapes. But his one hour mix for us is one of the most brilliantly unusual in the series, and is completely dance floor orientated. One moment serving up kinetic drum programming it then flips into a retro synth world before dropping into a slow and atmospheric pool of pads and chords. Later on unhinged techno returns, dreamy house makes an appearance and experimental loops of busted drum and frazzled synths play us out. It’s perfectly anarchic and bravely left of centre and never lets up.