Lost Frequencies
photo: stefan brending (2eight) · cc by-sa 3.0 ↗Felix De Laet, a Belgian DJ and producer from Brussels who records as Lost Frequencies, broke through in 2014 with a deep-house remix of Easton Corbin's 'Are You with Me' that topped the charts in seven countries and helped define the tropical-house sound of the mid-2010s. He built a career on pairing warm, guitar-inflected hooks with patient four-on-the-floor grooves, moving from deep house into bigger festival-pop territory on hits like 'Reality,' 'Where Are You Now' and 'Crazy.' He now runs the label Found Frequencies in partnership with Armada Music.
Lost Frequencies has singled out Wankelmut's 'One Day (Reckoning Song)' as the exact track that pulled him into deep house, and his breakout style is basically that formula rebuilt as his own: strip a vocal-and-guitar source down to its warmest hook and drop it over a patient four-on-the-floor pulse.
listen forThe plucked/strummed guitar figure looping under a filtered, emotive vocal, and the unhurried groove that never rushes to a drop — that's the Wankelmut DNA showing up almost unchanged in 'Are You With Me.'
Lost Frequencies has named Avicii's 'Blessed' as a track that showed him a single record could carry huge feeling and huge energy at once, a lesson audible in his own bigger, more anthemic productions built for festival mainstages rather than just deep-house sets.
listen forThe layered, key-change-style emotional lift into the final chorus and the widescreen synth pads under the drop — the same big-tent uplift Avicii chased, filtered through Lost Frequencies' tropical-house palette.
Lost Frequencies has called FISHER's productions 'a perfect insight... on how I could grow as a producer if I wanted to go deeper,' pointing to FISHER's blunt, crowd-tested tech-house craft as a model for tightening his own low end and groove.
listen forThe stripped-back, bass-forward groove and confident, unfussy percussion underneath the pop hook on 'Recognise' — less about the vocal top-line, more about a groove built to move a room, the way FISHER builds a track.