zijn
Presence
as ritual.
zijn is a downtempo electronic project rooted in the powerful intensity of slower downtempo music. Drawing on the beats of pressing electronica and slow-burning grooves, this is music that creates a space for you to be and your presence becomes a ritual.
Sets &
Mixes.
SoundCloud
zijn ⨀ p o d c a s t s 33 podcasts · 57 h+ zijn ▽ s e t s 20 sets · 41 h+
zijn — live
zijn — NDL ‘to be’ — to be present; to exist. Create a space where you can simply be. Away from the rush, entering a dimension where presence becomes a ritual.
Mixes &
Podcasts.
Guest mixes for labels and collectives.
Slow motion
architecture.
Atmospheric sound design from the edge of the Black Forest.
About the Artist
“The music is not about escape — it’s about arrival.”
zijn grew up in the southwest of Germany, where the Black Forest meets the Rhine plain — a landscape that carries a particular quality of silence. That silence became the starting point. zijn, from the Dutch (NDL) for ‘to be’, emerged as an artistic identity — less about genre, more about intention: what does it feel like to be connected with natural realms through music and hypnotic rhythms?
The music moves along the threshold between danceability and stillness — layered textures, haunted rhythms, the deep bass you feel before you hear it.
zijn has been part of the electronic underground of the Upper Rhine region for several years — from basement stages to festival meadows across Germany, France, Switzerland and beyond. Each performance is treated as a ritual container: a defined, protected space in which sound carries something unseen.
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touch.
Bookings, collaborations, mastering commissions.