Intercell.031 - CYNKT

July's podcast is a powerful one by the uprising and Dutch-based: CYNKT (@cynkt). CYNKT is a 23 years old Utrecht based Techno DJ and producer. At the age of 17, he got sucked into the techno scene after attending a Soenda Indoor event (@soendafestival). After a while, he went to so many parties that his love for the underground scene increased exponentially. He didn't plan to start making music himself at all. But at the age of 18, he bought his very first DJ gear. For two successive years, he'd been mixing at afterparties and in his small student room with friends (almost daily). Due to all the dancefloors that he had experienced, the crave for a legitimate gig grew. Thanks to all the positive feedback, CYNKT decided to send some mixes to DJ contests. This led to a gig in the community area during the second night of 'REAKTOR New Year Nights' (@reaktorevents) at the Warehouse Elementenstraat in 2017. From this moment on, his musical career began to grow fast. His DJ sets became of better quality by using the musical knowledge he gained at previous events, and he started to produce a lot. After the improvements he made, he played DJ sets at JACK Amsterdam, Verknipt (@verknipt-events) and at BASIS (@terugnaardebasis) during their Nachtcollege Techno Special (@nachtcollege). In the last few years, he started defining his own style. Being inspired by artists like Stranger (@whoisstranger), Kobosil (@kobosil), Paula temple (@paulatemple), Rebekah (@rebekah), Tommy Four Seven (@tommyfourseven), and Remco Beekwilder (@remco-beekwilder), his sets tend to be fast and raw but are intermixed with long melodic breaks and contain lots of vocals. He aims at taking his audience on a musical journey by playing old school Techno tracks from the '90s and 2000s, EBM, Rave, Industrial, Offbeat, Melodic Techno, and even Trance. His sound can best be described as raw, cutting edge techno with euphoric influences.