Interstellar Funk

As a DJ, van Elden is known for serv­ing up the unex­pect­ed at clubs and fes­ti­vals all over Europe, Aus­tralia, Asia, North and South Amer­i­ca. In autumn 2021, he debuted his live show at Draaimolen Fes­ti­val and Amsterdam’s Muziekge­bouw con­cert hall where lis­ten­ers were mes­mer­ized by tow­er­ing lay­ers of syn­the­siz­er and con­stant­ly mor­ph­ing drum machines. On top of this, his care­ful­ly curat­ed and bril­liant­ly obscure Arti­fi­cial Dancers — Waves of Synth com­pi­la­tion on Rush Hour became an instant clas­sic with unknown gems from the likes of The Human League and Chris & Cosey.

This love of tran­scend­ing sounds and scenes, gen­res, and gen­er­a­tions comes from years work­ing at the famous­ly influ­en­tial and eclec­tic Rush Hour record store, as well as trav­el­ing the world and pick­ing up his own glob­al influ­ences. Next up for the for­mer Trouw and De School res­i­dent is a debut artist album, Into The Echo, on Dek­man­tel in 2022. The inno­v­a­tive record mix­es up pen­sive melodies with haunt­ing post-indus­tri­al sound­scapes and euphor­ic synth arpeg­gios. It is the lat­est chap­ter in the ever-evolv­ing sto­ry of this rest­less musi­cal investigator.