The 30-year-old producer and DJ, real name Joseph Thornalley, has always walked a line between hypervisibility and ambiguity. His unique ability to render the liminal spaces between sadness and euphoria was first telegraphed by James Blake, who played early Vegyn tracks during his 2014 BBC Radio 1 residency, and then later cemented by production credits on Frank Ocean’s landmark 2016 albums, Blonde and Endless. Today Thornalley’s fingerprints can be detected over the work of some of the most boundary pushing artists of the last decade (among them Travis Scott, Dean Blunt, JPEGMAFIA and Shygirl), but he maintains a relatively low profile. Until now his own discography has been an understated mix of mood pieces and hallucinogen-friendly beats – “club music for people who secretly hate clubs,” as i-D once put it. He does interviews rarely and performs live even less. The few social media channels he has are largely inactive.

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