Objekt

Ganzfeld at 150: the track that dismantled the club

When Ganzfeld topped the Resident Advisor annual list in 2014, Objekt had already proven that the dancefloor could sound like an IDM laboratory without losing its drive. The track, released on a split with Dopplereffekt on Leisure System, condensed broken electro, hyper-detailed sound design, and a strange euphoria at 150 bpm. Since moving to Berlin in 2009, he has turned that tension between engineering precision and club spontaneity into one of the most recognizable signatures in contemporary electronic music.

White labels, Hessle Audio and the Flatland map

His name began to circulate in 2011 with the self-released white labels Objekt #1 and Objekt #2, which twisted post-dubstep and techno until they were unrecognizable. That same year, he remixed Radiohead's Bloom for TKOL RMX and SBTRKT's Wildfire. In 2012, he landed on Hessle Audio with Cactus / Porcupine; later came Agnes Demise and Fishbone on Objekt #3. His debut Flatland (PAN, 2014) pushed that vocabulary toward a rhythmic science fiction album, somewhere between electro, industrial, and ambient.

Born in Tokyo in 1987 to a Filipino mother and a British-American father, he spent his childhood in Belgium and grew up in the United Kingdom—in Solihull from the age of eleven—before studying engineering in Oxford and joining Native Instruments as a DSP developer. That technical training remains present: he works intermittently on audio algorithms, and it shows in every transient.

Anarchic booth and the anthem Theme From Q

In parallel, he established himself as one of the most unpredictable DJs of his generation. Mixmag named him DJ of the Year in 2018. His Kern Vol. 3 mix for Tresor (2016) was taken as a masterclass in craft; his BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix (2020) and the eight-hour session at Nowadays, New York (2021), expanded that reputation. In the booth, he ignores genres and tempos, jumping from techno to jungle, electro, acid, or dancehall, and shares regular marathons with Call Super. Dekmantel and Freerotation have become regular homes.

Theme From Q, the B-side of Objekt #4 (2017), was Mixmag's track of the year: a breakbeat anthem that crossed over from basements to the charts. In 2018, Cocoon Crush (PAN) shifted toward organic textures and a more intimate narrative; Pitchfork placed it among the most meticulously arranged dance compositions in recent memory. The following year, he debuted an audiovisual show with Ezra Miller at Unsound, Berlin Atonal, and Primavera Sound.

Kapsela, Wormhole and the rejection of haste

Objekt #5 (2022) explored twisted dancehall rhythms on Bad Apples and Ballast. In 2024, he launched the label Kapsela, successor to the white label series: he reissued Ganzfeld with remixes by Djrum, Piezo, and Ulla and released the EP Chicken Garaage. He maintains the Wormhole residency in Berlin and an almost dogmatic quality control: he releases little, but every record shifts the club's center of gravity.