Blind Dates With Deities: The Beginning of S3NTIENCE

July 31, 2026 marked a pretty significant milestone for me: the independent release of Blind Dates With Deities, my debut electronic music album and the official beginning of S3NTIENCE.

I produced, mixed, and mastered the album independently, and the final project brought together 15 original tracks spanning a surprisingly broad section of the electronic music spectrum. When I first started making music, though, I didn’t have some meticulously planned vision for what the album—or even S3NTIENCE itself—was eventually going to become.

The original idea was much simpler: I wanted to make electronic music and resurrect some of the sounds and feelings that made me fall in love with dance music during its golden era in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

From there, things evolved naturally.

Finding a Sound Without Forcing One

As I started navigating the landscape of electronic music production, I found myself gravitating toward particular sounds, emotions, melodies, and production styles without deliberately trying to fit everything into one narrowly defined genre.

That process ultimately became a big part of Blind Dates With Deities.

The album moves through multiple electronic subgenres, but it also moves through different moods, colors, and levels of energy. Some tracks are bright and euphoric. Others are considerably darker. Some are unmistakably designed to make you move, while others are more introspective, cinematic, orchestral, or atmospheric.

The majority of the album is absolutely dance music, but I never wanted every track to accomplish exactly the same thing.

Electronic music has an enormous emotional vocabulary, and one of the things I discovered while making the album was how much I enjoyed exploring that entire spectrum. A track can be energetic without being happy. It can be melodic without being soft. It can be atmospheric without becoming background music. Sometimes the most interesting ideas live somewhere between those categories.

That willingness to move between sounds became one of the foundations of S3NTIENCE.

The Beginning, Not the Destination

Releasing Blind Dates With Deities didn’t feel like completing the S3NTIENCE project. If anything, it had the opposite effect.

I became addicted to improving it.

Since the album’s release, I’ve been constantly working on the quality of my production, mixing, and mastering. Every finished track creates another opportunity to identify something I can do better on the next one—whether that’s creating a cleaner mix, building more effective transitions, improving dynamics, developing a stronger groove, or simply finding a better sound.

That process extends well beyond the music itself.

I’ve also become increasingly interested in improving the visual presentation surrounding S3NTIENCE: creating more striking artwork, developing more engaging social media content, refining the project’s visual identity, and finding better ways to present each release as part of a larger body of work.

The goal isn’t simply to make better songs. It’s to improve every facet of the project, both within the music and in the way that music is presented to the world.

Where Blind Dates With Deities Is Going

That’s what makes this particular moment exciting.

The first post-album S3NTIENCE single, Close To You, arrived on August 28, 2026, and another new single, R3born, is already in the pipeline for an October 2nd, 2026 release. Each represents another step forward while expanding the section of the electronic music spectrum that S3NTIENCE occupies.

Close To You, for example, is heavily trance-inspired while retaining melodic and progressive house foundations. It combines big, uplifting vocals—including a couple of operatic sections—with an epic, gritty lead melody.

At the same time, it doesn’t comfortably fit into the conventional classic-trance mold. Its tempo, melodic construction, and overall production pull it in other directions.

That’s becoming something of a recurring theme.

Genre intersection appears throughout the S3NTIENCE catalog. Some tracks incorporate elements associated with trance. Others borrow from techno. House remains an important foundation—particularly melodic and progressive house—but those boundaries aren’t intended to become walls.

I’m much more interested in finding the right ingredients for an individual song than forcing every release into a predetermined box.

And I fully expect those ingredients to continue changing.

Building S3NTIENCE One Release at a Time

One of the unexpected parts of starting this project has been discovering how much I enjoy everything surrounding the actual creation of the music.

I’ve enjoyed engaging with people who discover the tracks through social media. I’ve enjoyed working with playlist curators and hearing their reactions. I’ve enjoyed getting feedback about what connects, what doesn’t, and what different listeners hear in the same piece of music.

I’ve even enjoyed the obsessive technical side of the process: refining mixes, testing masters, adjusting arrangements, improving the relationship between energy and restraint, and trying to understand what makes a track feel cohesive rather than simply loud or busy.

Ultimately, I’m chasing music that’s balanced, energetic, melodic, groovy, and memorable—music with enough contrast to have meaningful highs and lows rather than existing at one intensity from beginning to end.

I’m still discovering exactly what S3NTIENCE sounds like.

I hope I never completely stop.

Only the Beginning

If you’ve stumbled across this post without knowing anything about S3NTIENCE beforehand, welcome.

Blind Dates With Deities is where the project began. It’s a snapshot of an artist learning electronic music production in real time, exploring different sounds and discovering which ideas were worth pursuing further.

But it isn’t where the project ends.

New music is already arriving, the production continues to evolve, and there are plenty of unexplored corners of electronic music left to visit.

So feel free to check out Blind Dates With Deities on Spotify, explore the singles that have followed it, and stick around for whatever comes next.

This is most definitely only the beginning.