Honouring the aquatic techno bounce of Detroit duo Drexciya, the prowess of Rufige Kru’s jungle, and the heftiness of early UK grime, the Berlin-based artist Aquarian creates raw, arresting, and urgent music aimed squarely at the dancefloor. While his debut LP The Snake That Eats Itself (2020) found refreshing ways of stretching out the tensions in his music, it also explored how his productions could be expanded upon in a more narrative context.  His most recent double EP for Dekmantel’s UFO imprint signifies a true dedication to the immediacy and galvanising joy of club music, with full-on hybrid dance bangers for a packed dance floor. As a DJ, his genre-bending and breakneck approach is as potent as ever, mirroring his production ethos and threading the needle across a field of disparate genres: fast techno meets pitched up gqom, prog-garage collides with baile funk, while footwork is pieced together with power house and italo disco.