Sepehr

Iranian-American producer and DJ Sepehr fuses electro, techno, house, drum'n'bass, and acid into an energetic yet thoughtful style. Multiple EPs appeared from him across the 2010s, after which his debut album Shaytoon arrived in 2020. He founded a label bearing the same name and launched the more experimental Flower Storm project alongside Kasra V. Subsequent solo work includes 2024's Genesis Domain, which merges breakbeat with trance elements.

Sepehr Alimagham took up DJing while still a teenager and had become a regular presence at Bay Area clubs by the early 2010s. A handful of tech-house productions and remixes followed, alongside gigs both locally and internationally; live performances began in 2017, coinciding with the release of his first vinyl record, Step One, on Black Catalogue. The next year brought a split EP with Justin Peoples as part of Legwork's Footage Series and the Body Mechanics EP on Dark Entries. Further explorations in trippy electro surfaced with 2019's Cybernetic on the U.K. imprint EON, while the digital EP Fury's Edge on Spe:c incorporated drum'n'bass and post-dubstep touches. Shaytoon, an album drawing from the '70s Iranian records he encountered growing up, surfaced on Dark Entries in 2020. He inaugurated his Shaytoon label via the Crown Jewel EP and also issued Artificiality on Klakson.

Survivalism, combining drum'n'bass and electro, came out on Shaytoon in 2021. The 2022 collaboration Drunk on Psychedeli(c)a with Steffi appeared on Klakson. Diaspora Cocktail followed in 2023 on Planet Euphorique, soon joined by Yek, the debut Flower Storm EP from Sepehr's audio-visual work with Kasra V. He additionally released the varied full-length Pomegranate Skies that year. Early 2024 saw the second Flower Storm EP, Do, alongside the Genesis Domain EP on Dekmantel.