Skee Mask at The White Hotel

Johnny James, Managing Editor

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Skee Mask

19 September 2025

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Skee Mask, the producer behind some of the most inspired electronic music of the past decade, returns to The White Hotel.

Across four albums, 10 EPs and a tangle of remixes, Bryan Müller has become a key voice in the continuum of club music, bringing fresh energy to familiar forms. His productions are surgically precise yet full of feeling, while his DJ sets hop borders with rare instinct. No doubt – he’s one of the most intriguing and in-demand artists on the circuit.

Raised near Munich, Müller cut his teeth in indie bands before teaching himself Ableton. Early electro-house and techno as SCNTST drew Boys Noize’s attention, but it was with the Zenker Brothers’ Ilian Tape that his more experimental instincts took root. As Skee Mask, his debut album Shred set him at the centre of the label’s breakbeat-techno universe.

Compro widened the frame, layering breakbeats with ambient textures that nodded to Aphex Twin and Boards of Canada without tipping into nostalgia; tracks like ‘Soundboy Ext’ and ‘Dial 274’ brimmed with a posthuman charge. By 2021’s Pool, Müller was operating in a different galaxy altogether: alien atmospherics and fluid tempos from 130-170+ bpm, born out of live hardware jams and alive with volatility.

Last year’s Resort feels like both culmination and reset. It plays like a guided tour of his catalogue – breakbeat techno, celestial ambience, IDM detail – distilled into some of his warmest, most inviting work. Mid-’90s Warp haze meets futuristic precision; fleet-footed drums and dreamy pads sit alongside sharp, club-ready architecture, while ambient passages glow with a blissed-out, almost GAS-like serenity.

It’s the sound of an artist at ease with contradiction – intricate yet direct, introspective yet bodily, rooted in club music but forever looking beyond. On The White Hotel’s notorious (read loud) system, that vision should land with force.

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