Thomas Azier

Thomas Azier is a pop-electronic music artist, based in Berlin. After spending the past 4 years tirelessly honing his sound Thomas Azier has emerged with his debut EP “Hylas 001”, released on his own label Hylas Records/BMG Rights Management. Exploring the inherent power of pop and its ability to transcend, communicate, and affect on mass, Thomas Azier’s epic sound is both nostalgic, and current; revisiting the sparkle and magic of the genre, so often ignored in the post-internet music era.... Meer »

Thomas Azier is a pop-electronic music artist, based in Berlin. After spending the past 4 years tirelessly honing his sound Thomas Azier has emerged with his debut EP “Hylas 001”, released on his own label Hylas Records/BMG Rights Management. Exploring the inherent power of pop and its ability to transcend, communicate, and affect on mass, Thomas Azier’s epic sound is both nostalgic, and current; revisiting the sparkle and magic of the genre, so often ignored in the post-internet music era. “Music has turned into nothing more than just a rush in the background while you are busy doing other things. I don’t want to change that, but I try to
make something that will catch your ear and communicate with you.” - Azier

Growing up in a small town in the Netherlands, Azier began making music because there really wasn’t anything else to do. Too broke to buy analogue gear, and hungry for a means of expression, Azier, like many young musicians today, began producing tracks on his computer. At 19, Azier moved to Berlin on a naïve and ambitious whim. Immediately inspired by the pulse and atmosphere of the city, he began experimenting with his voice, also adding new equipment to his practice. Layering his productions with dramatic symphonic vocals, and an aggressive number of synthesizers, his work began to tell the stories of his new life, the music communicating this evolution with emotive, passionate, unabashed fervor. “I write so many melodies always end up with too many in the end, resulting in an orgy of melodies; I love that moment when everything comes together and it seems to fit.” - Azier

Bridging the analogue and digital worlds with symphonic precision, his music is an anthem for the present, pulling from the past, looking to the future, a synthesis of time, sound, and story. Pop music, which sways between hope and despair- speaking of the nuanced permutations of youth’s mood and feeling.

Thomas Azier recently co-wrote with German artist Casper on his #1 selling album XOXO, and collaborated with Timo Kaukolampi, head of the Finnish experimental beat rockers,
K-X-P. The 24-year old multi-instrumentalist is now working on his debut album, which follows his first EP “Hylas 001” and a second EP “Hylas 002” due out in Summer 2012.

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