Kryder: Thirty-Five Years In, Still Pressing Vinyl
- Roman Cigan
- Jul 12
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 24
Some producers arrive fully formed. Kryder built himself over three and a half decades, starting on vinyl decks in 1991 at 11 years old, long before "Kryder" was a name anyone would recognise.
That name has now been his for fifteen years, and the story of how it started is one of those rare cases where the myth checks out. In 2011, Tiësto personally signed his track "K2" to Musical Freedom — and gave Kryder his live debut warming up for him in front of 10,000 people at Privilege Ibiza, then holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's biggest club. It's the kind of entrance most producers spend a career trying to manufacture. Kryder just walked into it.
What followed wasn't a flash-in-the-pan story. Ten Tomorrowland appearances. A BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix. Two hundred-plus releases across Toolroom, Axtone, Size, Anjuna and Armada. A remix CV that runs through David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Kölsch and Basement Jaxx, plus a recurring creative partnership with Chicane that's produced two standout records.
Speaking of remixes — this is where Kryder's catalogue gets genuinely interesting, because the hits and the hidden gems don't always line up.
His remix of York's "On the Beach" is the one we keep coming back to on Soundevote. Melodic, progressive, unhurried — it's a track that sounds like exactly what its title promises, and it's pulled in over 21 million Spotify streams while somehow still sounding current in 2026.
Then there's his remix of Chicane's "Offshore" — the one nobody talks about enough. It hasn't cracked a million streams, which, by Kryder's standards, makes it a deep cut, but the production is loud, clean, and textured in a way that rewards a proper listen. If you know, you know.
And the numbers game is won, unsurprisingly, by his remix of Swedish House Mafia and John Martin's "Don't You Worry Child," done with Tom Staar back in 2012. Over 127 million Spotify streams. Not our personal favourite of the three, but there's no arguing with a track that's become a generational reference point.
2026 has been relentless by any measure — sixteen tracks across five labels in seven months, a run that includes collaborations with Oliver Heldens and Gianluca Vacchi, a summer anthem on Steve Angello's Size Records, and a four-record close-out on Black Hole. That last stretch ends with "Interstellar," the final chapter in a self-directed Hans Zimmer trilogy that started with "Time" (2025, riffing on Inception) and continued with "Now We Are Free" (2025, Gladiator).
Every one of those releases is being pressed to vinyl, alongside a limited Kryteria cassette series running in parallel — a deliberate throwback from someone who never actually left the format behind.
The road, for now, is on pause. Kryder's stepped back from touring this summer to be with his partner and fellow DJ B Jones, who's currently going through cancer treatment — a decision he's spoken about openly rather than quietly. In the meantime, it's new music and art, weekly, with a return to the stage planned once summer's out. It's a rare thing to see an artist choose family over a full calendar, and it says as much about him as any remix credit does.
Thirty-five years in, fifteen as Kryder, and the trajectory hasn't flattened once — it's just, for a moment, pointed somewhere other than the road.
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