Wessel Janssen, the Amsterdam based artist better known as The Spy, connected with music in his youth, when it became a distraction to a serious illness. But it wasn’t until around 2015 that he began to take it seriously, buying his first Roland MC-303 synthesizer and using it to produce functional techno under other aliases. He enjoyed the way music “connects people,” and how it can help you “forget about certain stuff that’s going on in your life.” Nowadays, The Spy, has veered towards a more experimental, evocative style, the past year he shared a full album on Osàre! Editions, combining boot-stomping techno with cybernetic groove, jittery IDM, and sinister electro. Like much of Janssen’s work, it’s a fitting soundtrack for a dark, pounding basement devoid of time. Boomkat discribes his style as "a hot blooded fusion of coldwave electro and cybernetic techno styles comparable to Gesloten Cirkel, Beau Wanzer, early Jasss"