Ramzi

Ramzi is an electronic music project by Phoebé Guillemot, based in Montréal, Quebec. The project works with hybrid forms of electronic music, drawing on experimental pop, ambient textures, and rhythmic styles that range across dancehall, jungle and other club-derived forms. Its sound also incorporates heavily filtered samples, inverted rhythms, distorted atmospheres, melodic repetitions and field recordings.

Music and style

The project presents a dense, highly rhythmic style that often combines detailed beats with layered, surreal sound design. Its tracks move between energetic, fractured sequences and more restrained atmospheric passages, while keeping a cluttered and unsettled character. The music is described through contrasting ideas of utopian and dystopian space, with a strongly imagined sci-fi setting.

Releases

Ramzi’s work includes BÉBiTES and Houti Kush. Houti Kush follows the more frenetic and maximalist approach of BÉBiTES with a set of pieces that focus on warmer but unfamiliar atmospheres and a more contained rhythmic approach, while still retaining the same layered and disorientating style.

Other artist named Ramzi

A separate Ramzi is a British singer, musician, performer, songwriter and producer. He is born in the United Kingdom and spends much of his childhood in Africa and the Middle East. His mother is a classical pianist, his father is an avid music lover, and he begins singing at the age of nine. He releases a debut album called Chapter One in 2009.