Delhi-based producer SYEYL shares his new EP Music Is The Answer, out now via EELF Records. Pronounced “sea-el,” SYEYL is the live electronic project of Hrithik Arora, with everything about the project beginning on stage. His performances are built in real time using samplers, drum machines, and evolving loops rather than prerecorded playback, creating immersive journeys where no two shows are ever the same.
That same instinct for spontaneity carries into SYEYL’s recorded work. His music blends emotive, sample-driven soundscapes with atmospheric electronica and experimental club music, balancing cinematic and ethereal textures with a sense of movement that reflects his live performances.
Since debuting at Magnetic Fields Festival in 2024, Arora has shared stages with Seb Wildblood, Tom VR, David August, Sofia Kourtesis, Midland, and Kode9. His previous EP, Mental Sunshine, arrived on 17 Steps, the UK label run by Dusky and part of the Involved Group, which is also home to Anjunadeep. The release placed SYEYL alongside artists including Mella Dee, LTJ Bukem, Logic1000, Nathan Micay, and Alan Fitzpatrick, marking another step in the producer’s growing international trajectory.
With Music Is The Answer, SYEYL builds a body of work around desire, possibility, escape, and emotional release. The EP opens with “Limer,” an ambient introduction that gradually gathers momentum before expanding into a euphoric, house-inflected electronic rush. The track seems to grow without limit, eventually disintegrating into nothingness.
The title is short for limerence, the feeling of intense attraction or emotional connection to another person, and the track translates that sensation into sound. Its momentum becomes increasingly consuming before ultimately dissolving, capturing the overwhelming pull of attraction through an evolving electronic arrangement.
“Desire” follows with a lush combination of generative synthesised arpeggios and sampled saxophone. The two elements intertwine to create a warm, textured sense of movement. Where “Limer” focuses on the consuming momentum of attraction, “Desire” feels more suspended and tactile, allowing its layers to breathe and evolve.
“Can I Touch The Sky?” begins with a sample of the khaen, a traditional Laotian mouth organ, processed through reverb until it forms an ethereal bed beneath the track. A driving bassline and UK garage-inspired drums gradually enter, transforming that initial stillness into an euphoric rush.
The title becomes a physical sensation within the music itself, capturing the feeling of reaching upward, pushing beyond what feels possible, and trying to touch the sky. It is another example of Arora using sound to turn an emotional or conceptual idea into something tangible.
The EP then takes a familiar song in an unexpected direction as SYEYL reinterprets Radiohead’s “How To Disappear Completely.” The original’s melancholic meditation on alienation and escape is transformed into something lighter, more positive, and liberating.
Where Radiohead’s version feels like a retreat from the world, SYEYL’s interpretation becomes an escape in the best possible sense — an immediate shift into a space where the possibilities feel endless. A sampled RAV Vast handpan sits against an ambient acid line, breaks, and deconstructed modular percussion, creating tension between organic resonance and fractured electronics.
The EP closes with “Music Is The Answer,” an euphoric journey built around an expansive synth line, deep bass, and multiple breaks. Its momentum continually opens outward before eventually resolving, while a sampled piano processed through a granulator adds another layer of warmth and movement.
After a project centered around desire, possibility, escape, and emotional release, the title feels less like a statement and more like a conclusion reached through the music itself. Rather than offering a literal answer, SYEYL allows the EP’s evolving textures and emotional progression to make the case on their own.
With Music Is The Answer, SYEYL continues carving out a distinctive space where atmospheric electronica, experimental club music, and live improvisation converge. Across five tracks, Hrithik Arora turns samples, machines, evolving loops, and organic instrumentation into a fluid body of work that feels equally connected to the club, the stage, and the spaces in between.
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