Worakls & friends

Some artists make tracks for the dancefloor. Others build entire worlds around it. Worakls belongs to the second category. Long before melodic techno became a formula, Kevin Rodrigues was approaching electronic music like a composer rather than a DJ. Raised on classical piano from the age of three and shaped by conservatory training, his productions have always carried a very different sense of structure. Not built around quick impact or predictable tension-and-release, but around harmony, movement and orchestration. You can hear it in the details of his sound design. The way string arrangements are layered against rolling low-end sequences. How arpeggios slowly evolve over long passages without losing emotional weight. His tracks often move like film scores translated into club music. Worakls helped define an entire European melodic movement during the early 2010s.…