Hessle Audio returns with Undertow, a new four-track EP from Swiss drummer, composer and electronic artist Arthur Hnatek. The first new release on the London label since Jasmin's Bite The Hand That Feeds You EP in October 2025, it introduces Hnatek's highly physical approach to electronic music. Based in Zurich, Hnatek has previously collaborated with artists including Barker and Stenny, while his solo work has drawn on his background in jazz, improvised music and club-oriented electronic production. Hnatek began Undertow with long, unplanned drum improvisations recorded across Brooklyn, Berlin and Switzerland, treating the performances as raw material, cutting, reducing and transforming them until rhythm begins to suggest melody, harmony and atmosphere. Using resonators, vocoders, tuned delays, spectral processing and the Torso S4 sampler, he gradually extracts an electronic vocabulary from the recordings themselves. Hnatek says "I felt a growing need to return to the drum kit with no plan other than to play. I wasn't trying to make electronic music with drums layered on top. I was interested in whether an entire electronic language could emerge from the drum recordings themselves." Across Undertow, the physicality and unpredictability of the original performances remain present even as the recordings are pushed into increasingly abstract territory.

Sam Girling makes his Hessle Audio debut with Drive By Strokes / Primrose Mountain, a two-track release that captures the euphoric yet stripped-back direction his music has taken over the past year. The Bedford-born producer and DJ has increasingly focused on late-night club music with a strong UK foundation, balancing tension and urgency via the melodic playfulness that runs through his work. That shift has become more pronounced across his recent releases and through Attacca, the party series and label Girling runs alongside his own productions. Tracks from this period have found their way into the sets of Ben UFO, Call Super and Surusinghe, helping establish a distinct signature sound which feels unmistakably modern but harks back to the dizzying genre splicing of the early 2010s, when Hessle Audio was establishing itself. Both Drive By Strokes and Primrose Mountain have already developed a life of their own through DJ sets in the months leading up to release. "It's been surreal to watch people develop a familiarity with these tracks over the last few months from the guys' sets, and now my own!" Sam says. "Ben closing out Dekmantel with 'Drive By Strokes' was such a moment for me. I get people coming up to me every set talking about it and it's become my closer too now. I'm so proud to have this 2-tracker out on Hessle Audio."

Sam Girling makes his Hessle Audio debut with Drive By Strokes / Primrose Mountain, a two-track release that captures the euphoric yet stripped-back direction his music has taken over the past year. The Bedford-born producer and DJ has increasingly focused on late-night club music with a strong UK foundation, balancing tension and urgency via the melodic playfulness that runs through his work. That shift has become more pronounced across his recent releases and through Attacca, the party series and label Girling runs alongside his own productions. Tracks from this period have found their way into the sets of Ben UFO, Call Super and Surusinghe, helping establish a distinct signature sound which feels unmistakably modern but harks back to the dizzying genre splicing of the early 2010s, when Hessle Audio was establishing itself. Both Drive By Strokes and Primrose Mountain have already developed a life of their own through DJ sets in the months leading up to release. "It's been surreal to watch people develop a familiarity with these tracks over the last few months from the guys' sets, and now my own!" Sam says. "Ben closing out Dekmantel with 'Drive By Strokes' was such a moment for me. I get people coming up to me every set talking about it and it's become my closer too now. I'm so proud to have this 2-tracker out on Hessle Audio."

Hessle Audio returns with Undertow, a new four-track EP from Swiss drummer, composer and electronic artist Arthur Hnatek. The first new release on the London label since Jasmin's Bite The Hand That Feeds You EP in October 2025, it introduces Hnatek's highly physical approach to electronic music. Based in Zurich, Hnatek has previously collaborated with artists including Barker and Stenny, while his solo work has drawn on his background in jazz, improvised music and club-oriented electronic production. Hnatek began Undertow with long, unplanned drum improvisations recorded across Brooklyn, Berlin and Switzerland, treating the performances as raw material, cutting, reducing and transforming them until rhythm begins to suggest melody, harmony and atmosphere. Using resonators, vocoders, tuned delays, spectral processing and the Torso S4 sampler, he gradually extracts an electronic vocabulary from the recordings themselves. Hnatek says "I felt a growing need to return to the drum kit with no plan other than to play. I wasn't trying to make electronic music with drums layered on top. I was interested in whether an entire electronic language could emerge from the drum recordings themselves." Across Undertow, the physicality and unpredictability of the original performances remain present even as the recordings are pushed into increasingly abstract territory.

Hessle Audio Electronica

Hessle Audio Electronica

Hessle Audio UK Garage / Bassline

Sam Girling makes his Hessle Audio debut with Drive By Strokes / Primrose Mountain, a two-track release that captures the euphoric yet stripped-back direction his music has taken over the past year. The Bedford-born producer and DJ has increasingly focused on late-night club music with a strong UK foundation, balancing tension and urgency via the melodic playfulness that runs through his work. That shift has become more pronounced across his recent releases and through Attacca, the party series and label Girling runs alongside his own productions. Tracks from this period have found their way into the sets of Ben UFO, Call Super and Surusinghe, helping establish a distinct signature sound which feels unmistakably modern but harks back to the dizzying genre splicing of the early 2010s, when Hessle Audio was establishing itself. Both Drive By Strokes and Primrose Mountain have already developed a life of their own through DJ sets in the months leading up to release. "It's been surreal to watch people develop a familiarity with these tracks over the last few months from the guys' sets, and now my own!" Sam says. "Ben closing out Dekmantel with 'Drive By Strokes' was such a moment for me. I get people coming up to me every set talking about it and it's become my closer too now. I'm so proud to have this 2-tracker out on Hessle Audio."

TRG's Hessle Audio single remixed by Martyn and Ramadanman. Released in 2008.

Casey Spillman joins Hessle Audio with Petunia, a four-track EP reflecting an increasingly exploratory approach to his sound. The release brings together the Essex-born producer and DJ's varied influences, capturing a growing confidence in following new directions in the studio. Spillman's music draws on the rhythmic urgency and low-end weight of jungle and garage, alongside the more spacious textures of ambient. His productions move between forceful dancefloor material and more introspective territory, with that breadth also informing his approach behind the decks. Alongside releases on Infuse, he has developed an outlet for his music through his own label, Temperature. Petunia grew from a desire to push those possibilities further. Spillman approached the EP as an opportunity to bring different strands of his sound together and give himself more room stylistically, while retaining the character that connects his work. "This EP feels like the perfect representation of where I'm at today," he says. "It gave me the opportunity to really go for it stylistically, bringing everything together in a way that still feels completely like me."

Hessle Audio Electronica

Hessle Audio UK Garage / Bassline