I Hate Models

Mysterious French producer, label owner and DJ I Hate Models swerves standardized structures and instead focuses on emotional response; The energy of club music serves as a vessel for his feelings and a tool to manipulate others.⁠ ⁠

The spectrum of moods expressed – in his Techno-infused productions, DJ sets, and on his label Disco Inferno – veers from nostalgia and passion to loneliness, melancholia, and brutality, often juxtaposing darkness and light in the same pulse as an authentic conduit of his own artistic self-assessment. ⁠ ⁠

On his journey thus far, IHM has released music on labels ranging from Arts to Perc Trax, who carried his 2019 album L’ ge Des Métamorphoses. ⁠He’s also remixed for the legendary English band Depeche Mode.⁠ ⁠

Within the microcosm of one track, the energy can shift from bruising rhythm to swooning ambiance and back again – cascades of pearlescent melody giving way to shards of sheet metal, thunderous percussion offset by softly sculpted sine waves. ⁠ ⁠

That the further adventures of I Hate Models feel entirely open-ended is completely by design – generic constriction is the enemy of genuine catharsis.⁠