Sieren

Matthias Frick first self-released music as Sieren - his mother’s maiden name - over a decade ago, back in 2011, but his music has long stretched towards the past: in the mid-aughts, his productions dipped into the sun-kissed sounds of trance, and in the first half of the 2010s, he donned his current alias and fell in with the dreamy world of post-dubstep, which is itself a veritable constellation of sounds, ideologies, and genres. He released music on labels such as R&S Records and Christian Löffler’s Ki Records. That melting-pot approach is clear in his new releases on imprint Friends of FriendsSerenity (Friends of Friends), a potent distillation of umpteen styles that nevertheless feels like something entirely new: it’s 8-a.m. rave-ups and 11 p.m. ambience; it’s 1992 and 2025; it’s