Loke Rahbek (1989) is a Danish experimental musician and producer. He cofounded the Copenhagen based record label Posh Isolation in 2009 with Christian Stadsgaard, which also marked the beginning of his music career. He has an incredibly prolific and varied discography under many aliases and groups, with some of his most notable projects being his solo alias Croatian Amor, and the groups Lust for Youth and Damien Dubrovnik. Frederik Valentin (1985) is a Danish composer and multimedia artist. He began his music career in the mid 2000’s in the rock band Rock Hard Power Spray, eventually leading to later works released with the Copenhagen-based label Posh Isolation. Valentin has a wide-ranging discography in which pop explorations sit alongside ambient and experimental electronic releases. Most recently, Valentin has been working with Yung Lean as both producer on his Nectar and Sugar World albums as Jonatan Leandoer127 as well as on their commission for Sweden’s Cullberg Ballet.
Their first collaboration found a way into the world in 2017 with the album ‘Buy Corals Online’. Their previous work already established them as two of the most exciting musicians in Denmark when it comes to experimental electronic music, power electronics and ambient. Over time, they began incorporating more analogue instruments — guitar, viola, piano — to their (mostly) freeform productions, adding a newfound warmth and organic feeling. For the 2022 edition of Danish documentary festival CPH:DOX, Rahbek and Valentin were commissioned to create an alternative soundtrack to Sans Soleil by Chris Marker. This soundtrack was released as the album Together in 2022.
Their latest project, the score for the short film Un Miratge, will be released after the film premiere as an album: MOVING PICTURES (MUSIC FOR A MIRAGE), and involve a 40-minute live audio-visual show.

Wade is the resulting product of two parallel souls finally intersecting. Merely is the solo pseudonym of Swedish vocalist and producer Kristina Florell. In over 10 years of work spanning from her solo endeavors, to roles in bands like Team Rockit and Chariot, and vocal contributions to the music of Evian Christ, Courtesy, and Spray, Florell has proven her secular place in today’s musical landscape through her one-of-a-kind voice, poetic songwriting, and compositions formed out of a seamless blend of dream pop, new age, and golden age club music both in its standard and ambient incarnations. Her artistry is epitomized on her latest full-length album, 2022’s Sculpture – a sublime journey through the worlds of synthetic realism, an experience that brings an unfounded sense of palatability to the abstract. Prior to Wade, her latest project was 2024’s Essential Mixtape — a collaborative ambient release with close friend and contemporary Malibu.
Niko Demus, real name Niilo Lehtonen, is a rising act who’s cut from the same cloth – a young artist romancing the feelings that come from the vast styles of golden age club and electronic music at large. The Finnish producer is swiftly making his mark amongst his tenured contemporaries both inside and surrounding the Helsinki underground in a variety of capacities, ranging from his recorded output, live performances, and collaborative efforts. His solo work is made up of pristine deconstructions — and subsequent reconstructions — of trance, capturing the true essence of the timeless style through wholly original practices. These compositions see his expert sense of melody and sonic immersion blossom through meditative loops, delicate and dense sound design, and a commitment to creating vivid imagery through sound alone. Such traits are heard in full on his Cruise Control EP, released in early 2025 – a project that utilizes these elements of trance as a means of conveying the feeling of drifting endlessly across water. Surrounding this core output is his dedicated work as a DJ and collaborative producer – bringing mesmerizing live performances, an explorative catalog of mixes, edits, and remixes, and ever-frequent production appearances and collaborations (most notably his Shepherd’s Call project with fellow Helsinki ambient act ‘inter alia’).
If Merely and Niko Demus are an artistic match made in heaven, then Wade, the duo’s debut project, is a vision of what that ‘heaven’ looks, sounds, and feels like. The answer is clear from the very first track to the very last moment: heaven is the deep blue sea, where two seekers find beautiful solace. Inspired by the Baltic Sea that separates the Swedish and Finnish acts, these 5 ambient trance ballads treat the endless waters as a simultaneous vessel for introspection, lust, and self-discovery – a dynamic spectrum of feelings that only this duo could truly put to music, as these two’s signature artistic traits feel one with the traits of the sea itself.