KinAhau

Disguised as a trash collector, eighteen-year-old KinAhau ran up behind Michael Bibi and handed him a letter and a USB. The songs from that USB within days echoed across every major festival, a momentum that soon carried into Michael Bibi’s proposal to collaborate on one of them — Different Side. Although KinAhau was totally unknown in every electronic music scene, Different Side gained rapid popularity and amassed several million streams within a few months. This sudden breakthrough led to his first solo live sets at DC-10, Fabric London, and Space Miami, three of the world’s foremost electronic music institutions, as well as solo appearances at Mayan Warrior in Istanbul and Mexico. At those shows, KinAhau appeared alongside some of the most singular names in contemporary electronic music, from Luciano and Dennis Cruz to Damian Lazarus and DJ Tennis. A generation ago, KinAhau might have cooed over a drum machine, but today his medium is confessional sound creation. His 2024 mixtape, old demos and ripoffs — a stream of near-expressive observations and genre blend focused on his own youth discomfort and production in the vernacular of Beatport charts — drew enough attention in the United States to support his first nationwide tour that same year.

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