fingerbleed; the Nijmegen-born, Amsterdam-based producer, guitarist and songwriter, shaped by a digital yet distinctly human sonic ID, emerges with a sound pillared by euphoric electronic pulse and guitar-enriched immediacy. After years of quiet customisation and cultivation, his debut artist project arrives fully formed: ‘Instant Gratification’, fingerbleed’s forthcoming EP, distills the first-hit feeling his music is made to trigger.

Sonically, fingerbleed is a cluster of collisions: old and new, East and West, rock and rave. His compass points include The Beatles, John Frusciante, Daft Punk, Jai Paul-esque futurism and early electronic acts like The Prodigy. At the same time, his roots are tangled in the Turkish psychedelic wave of the late 60s and 70s - the warped melodies and half-step phrases his father played around the house. That lineage feeds directly into the movement and trance-like energy in his own tracks. His music is made for feeling and for motion, comprised with festivals in mind. At its core it’s electronic, but coloured by Turkish psychedelia, guitars and a fascination with emotion-heavy records. The sound is collage-like, mirrored in his visuals, which have a DIY, cut-and-paste, clipping-like quality that rejects a single, clean lane.

As ‘Instant Gratification’ rolls out, fingerbleed is stepping out of the bedroom and onto bigger systems. Built for movement, wired for impact and refusing to stay in one box, his debut project is the first transmission from a world where psychedelic nostalgia, Turkish roots and digital futures blur into something instantly, undeniably felt.