rafael cerato makes melodic house and techno that moves between warm, atmospheric passages and driving peak time weight. he is a french producer based in aix-en-provence and marseille, a base confirmed in a february 2024 interview.
he has spent over a decade touring internationally, with releases across diynamic, stil vor talent and systematic recordings. his debut album Requiem arrived on systematic recordings in 2020, built from deep, emotional tracks he has walked through individually in interviews.
the music needs to stay the center point of the experience, and visuals add something on top and not the opposite.
rafael cerato to electronic groove, 21 february 2024
his second album, My Reality, followed on systematic recordings in 2024, the same year as his Picture ep on diynamic. in june 2026, Oliver Koletzki remixed his track Reflections, made with pavel petrov, for EXE AUDIO.
Right Now, made with charles D, arrived 31 july 2026 on drumcode.
on 6 august 2026 he shares the main room bill with FISHER and loco dice at [UNVRS] in ibiza.
quotes are verbatim from the artists' own public posts and interviews, spelling and all. more profiles coming, 179 to go.