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Riscape Puts a Chorus Through It
Chalandri taught him not to jump the bar. The Dutch put him on 12s. We signed him in ’26 and dubbed four tracks to cassette — peak-time house that still has a chorus in it.
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Riscape writes the stretch you are still mouthing when the house lights murder the room.
Call him Riscape on the sleeve. Off it: Ioannis Rigas. Athens, not the villa postcard. Chalandri. National Conservatory. A piano tutor who treated a rushed bar like a personal insult. He sat up. He finished the phrase. Years of that. Then a club with no interval applause, a kick already moving, and the concert-hall posture never made it home.
SAE Athens. Grey Studios. Compressors after cadenzas. From 2020 he ships house that still contains a chorus — the kind you ruin a fluorescent taxi humming. Peak time minus the laser sermon. I have been leaning on these at a volume the stairwell has opinions about.
The Dutch heard him first, as they tend to. Mystery Freedom Records, 2021. Unity. Two x S. The EPs that live in a bag, not on a bedroom wall. This year he remixes Alphed Le Cornett and JARR Head’s “Synth Magic” and it sits at Beatport No. 1 on the Trance (Main Floor) Top 100 New Releases chart, a line that will get him dates and still fail to explain why the headphones keep winning. Off the desk he runs Riscape Reality Radio: whatever currently has him pacing, plus his own. Spinnin’. Sirup. EDM Joy. Blogs. DJs from the usual map. If the CV is what you came for, you are in the wrong magazine.
The bit that actually counts: he still plays like somebody who got told off for jumping ahead. When the kick lands, the left hand is still on the bass. Most of this year’s peak pile is a riser, a drop, and a lighting cue. He writes the stretch you are still mouthing when the house lights murder the room.