#ProducersCorner – Hyenah

Hyenah Manifesto:

“I don’t care about how much money you make. I don’t care about what you own. I don’t care if you are fat or skinny. I don’t care about the color of your skin, about if you are black, white or yellow. I don’t care if you are gay, straight or something in between.

I care about what you have to offer. That’s what is important to me.

What we all have to offer is what is important. Our positive vibes, our warmth, our respect for each other, our love. Right here and right now. Not a click away. That’s why I do what I do. I want you to come together. I want us to RISE. That’s my mission.

It is not about my face. It is about us.”

If you still need hard facts about the Hyenah, here you go:

In 2016 the Hyenah became Afro House artist of the year on Traxsource. The Hyenah had the most charted track of the year on Resident Advisor and two tracks on Beatport’s annual Deep House Top 10. The Hyenah is running the only regular club night for African House music in a major house club in Europe. It’s called RISE and happens every other month at Watergate in Berlin.

The Hyenah has released tracks and remixes on labels such as Freerange, Objektivity, AEON, Systematic, Drumpoet Community, Pokerflat, Akbal Music, Tribe Records and Toy Tonics. It has remixed artists such as Jimpster, Frankey & Sandrino, Denis Horvat, youANDme, Miguel Puente and the Afro Warriors. The Hyenah has djed all over the world. The Hyenah is keeping its identity secret and is wearing a mask.

For many years the synthetic basslines and infectious vocals of house music were confined to the underground discos and heard-through-the-grapevine parties of a previously niche genre.

Overtime though the movement grew. Popularity increased and with it came the often unavoidable proliferation of a once sacred faction. For those born on the other side of the millenium, house music regularly denotes massive, drug-fuelled raves in the wilderness, dominance of Top 40 charts and larger than life DJs who do little to no work behind the decks besides fist pumping and those gastly ‘I love you’ hand gestures. As the saying goes, things just aren’t like they used to be.

But perhaps all hope might not be lost and there’s a semblence of it to be found in the world of house. For me that hope lies in an unkown entity with a refreshing knack for creating hauntingly beautiful productions. We know not his face let alone where he (or she) comes from. All we know is the name: Hyenah.

Most people may not know this name as yet, not that it bothers Hyenah, but one of the producer’s first rises to prominence came when Black Coffee dropped the painfully simple yet spirit-shaking ‘The Wish (Dub)’. The unashmedlly gritty bassline, runaway percussion and orgasmic crescendo left house lovers pondering, what f*cking track is that?