Heyoka (2)

Heyoka is fast becoming one of San Francisco’s hottest new producer / performers on the scene. One of many using Native Instruments, Ableton Live and a host of plugins to create new and dynamic sounds.
His early influences in Downtempo, Dub and IDM combined with more recent midtempo dancefloor genres from the likes of Bassnectar, Glitch Mob and An-ten-nae have helped create a very unique sound that combines relentless basslines, hip hop and dub rhythms with a lot of musicality and melody.
Heyokas’ earlier works were identifiable by their crushing basslines and ‘spacey’ blips and glitches, ‘Pineal Dub’ shows progression from Heyoka as a producer with greater use of negative space and ethereal melodies that can only be heard as melancholy or wickedly cheerful.
The response to his emergence so far has been overwhelming with Heyoka opening nights for Tipper, Benga & Skream amongst others.