The energy of club music serves as a vessel for his own feelings and a tool with which to manipulate others. The spectrum of moods expressed veers from nostalgia and passion to loneliness, melancholia, and brutality, often juxtaposing darkness and light in the same pulse as an authentic conduit of his own artistic self-assessment.

On his journey thus far, IHM has released music on labels ranging from Arts, VOITAX, and Khemia, to Rave Or Die and Perc Trax, who released his 2019 album L’Âge Des Métamorphoses. He’s also remixed Depeche Mode and Perc. At every turn, his disregard for expectations and conventions has resulted in dynamic, ambitious music that feasts on the flesh of techno, industrial and trance without ever becoming beholden to one source. Within the microcosm of one track, the energy can shift from bruising rhythm to swooning ambience and back again. That the further adventures of I Hate Models feel entirely open-ended is completely by design; generic constriction is the enemy of genuine catharsis.

• Disco Inferno 01, by I Hate Models

• Disco Inferno 01, by I Hate Models