Formula Indie Sessions – Interview with bakh
bakh is an electronic music producer and DJ from Lebanon, releasing indie dance and tech house on renowned labeles (e.g., ExxUnderground). His tracks have charted in the Beatport Hype Top 100 and reached over 10,000 monthly listeners on Spotify, with a growing audience across Latin America and the Middle East. Alongside the club project he runs Sol By Bakh, a live and ambient outlet built around keys, improvisation, and golden-hour sets. He has played in major festivals such as Medaina Festival in Petra and Afrikaburn.
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Sitting at a piano before my feet could reach the pedals. I don’t remember deciding to like music. It was already in the house, and I just kept going back to it.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Classical piano first. Then, before I was old enough to be doing it, I was organizing electronic events, booking rooms and watching what made a crowd move. For years those were two separate lives. At some point it stopped making sense to keep them apart, and blending them became the whole project.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
The name is a nod to Bach, but the idea is simple: structure and restraint can hit as hard on a dancefloor as they do in a concert hall. bakh is that idea applied to indie dance and tech house.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music before?
It starts at the piano and goes wherever I am that day. Some tracks come out melodic and warm, some come out dark and tight, and I’ve stopped trying to force them into one lane. What stays constant is that it’s honest. If it didn’t come from somewhere real, it doesn’t leave the studio.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
Taking things out. For years I thought a track needed more. Now the question I ask most is what can leave without anyone noticing, and then I leave it out anyway.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
Ableton Live, an Arturia keyboard and interface, a Moog for the low end, and a phone for recording ideas before they disappear. The piano is still where most things start.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Kolombo and Pysh, “Straight From the Heart”. It has been in every set for a while now and I still haven’t found the moment it stops working.
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
I’m from Lebanon. You learn to make things without waiting for the right conditions, because they don’t come. That’s in the music: it doesn’t ask for permission and it doesn’t over-explain. Spending time in Brazil changed my sense of rhythm and of how a crowd can carry a track.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
Lose track of time
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
Consistency beats intensity. A track a month for years does more than one great year. Same with a set, same with a career.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
A sunrise set somewhere with more sky than walls. Playing Medaina in Petra came close, so I know the feeling exists. I’d like to find it again, ideally on a beach in Brazil.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Bach, obviously. Not to remake anything, but to see what he’d do with a kick drum and a room full of people who came to dance.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music?
Everything is on the usual platforms under bakh:
Releases are on Spotify, Beatport, Apple Music, and everywhere else. The link in bio covers the rest.
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical journey?
A track that takes an actual Bach composition and turns it into something a club will play without knowing where it came from. That’s the thesis. The rest is more releases, more rooms, more countries.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
That the quiet ones are usually the most serious. And that there’s a second project waiting for them once they’re done dancing.
Representative YouTube video
Sol By Bakh live at Odin, Mzaar, Lebanon:
