Heyoka

Described as a cosmic auditory scientist, Andrei Olenev is on his third solid EP in little over a year. His influences are heavy in the dub region, but there’s a generous amount of midtempo bump and a heaping helping of squishy bass to finish it off. Heyoka has been opening for acts like Benga, Skream, and the almighty Tipper, so keep your ears open for this cat. His new EP is called Whomp Gland, and this track is “Diesel.”

"Psychedelic dub was the style that I really got crazy about in my teens, and was the first style I ever tried to produce. But, my musical interests change all the time. The sound I'm going for is a sound that borrows from what I like in genres, but doesn't exactly fit into any of them. At the chill rooms at trance parties, I used to remember hearing dub tracks that sounded like all kinds of melting bouncing around fractal sounds that all sounded like totally foreign outer space sounds, but somehow made the overall vibe of dub. It was a sound I was obsessed with, and always trying to find after these parties, but never could. The glitchy melting types of effects were something I was seeking out, which kind of led me into discovering idm and paying more attention to more dance styles, like breaks and jungle. In these styles, I was finding a lot of the kind of elements I was wanting to hear incorporated into more downtempo and psychedelic genres.

Anyway, my obsession with trying to find a sort of fusion of these different kinds of styles made me naturally start wanting to make it myself. There is something about dub that I think kind of lets you be able to use random weird sounds, but still have it flow well musically and feel really good."