VEGYN

VegynUK

FRIDAY 3 JULY

Visionary producer opens up his musical archive between electronica, hip hop and avant-pop

  • Friday night 3 July*
    01:00, Fauna

* This artist is part of the Friday line-up. Concert starts at 01:00 on the night between Friday and Saturday.

Over the past decade, Vegyn has established himself as one of the most original figures in modern electronic music. The British producer first became widely known as a central creative force behind Frank Ocean’s groundbreaking albums Endless and Blonde, and he has since worked with names such as Travis Scott, JPEGMafia and John Glacier. Still, it is in Vegyn’s own releases that his off-kilter, richly detailed and restlessly curious sound world comes most clearly into focus.

The story of Vegyn begins in London’s club scene, where music circulated through friendships, parties and informal networks. A USB stick containing his own tracks ended up with James Blake, who later played the music on BBC Radio 1. The attention gave Vegyn early recognition as a producer and opened the door to a more wide-ranging universe, which unfolded in 2019 on the mixtape Text While Driving If You Want To Meet God! with 71 fragments of skewed beats, restless ideas and electronic detours.

On his debut album Only Diamonds Cut Diamonds, released later that same year, Vegyn expanded his universe into a full-length statement of fragmented beats, crooked melodies and a sound drawing on hip hop, electronica and experimental pop. Since then, The Road to Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions from 2024 has revealed a more song-oriented and emotionally charged side of his productions, while the Headache project – most recently with the 2025 album Thank You for Almost Everything – leads his sound into a strangely compelling space of spoken word, artificial vocals and electronic textures.

At Roskilde Festival, Vegyn appears in a DJ format that sits close to the way he thinks about music: open, detailed and full of unexpected connections. His sets can move from his own productions and alternative versions to pop moments, forgotten club tracks and obscure finds that suddenly make perfect sense on a dancefloor. Let one of electronic music’s most curious and boundary-pushing figures guide you through the unexpected.