Blending jazz and swing with house, breakbeats, and electronic textures since the early 2000s, Stelar has carved out a unique sonic identity. Global hits such as All Night and Booty Swing cemented his reputation, while live shows at Coachella, Glastonbury, Sziget, and Somerset House have made him a festival favourite. Alongside ten Amadeus Awards, he has also collaborated with stars including Lana Del Rey, Lady Gaga, and Bryan Ferry.
Parov Stelar
With Artifact, Stelar promises his most ambitious and cinematic work yet. While rooted in the electronic foundations that defined his career, the record pushes further into sweeping pop, late-Romantic grandeur, and classical flourishes. “After 30 years of making music, I’ve landed back where it all began: in curiosity, in wonder, in, ‘What happens if I just try this now?’” he explains. “Every day brought new ideas, new images, new sounds. At times, it was a real tsunami of emotions.”
Thematically, Artifact explores the “little traces” people leave behind across their lives—memories, fragments, scraps of thought, and echoes of past experiences. Inspiration came from childhood half-memories as well as Stelar’s fascination with parallel worlds, different dimensions, and afterlives.
Lead single Rebel Love embodies that spirit of experimentation, fusing emotive strings with driving electronic energy in a track that sidesteps conventional genre boundaries. Its striking video follows a lone explorer setting out from Austria on an ill-fated voyage, captured in stark black-and-white photography. The visual continues a wider universe tied to Artifact, where each video offers dreamlike vignettes, blending VHS aesthetics, sci-fi motifs, and nods to cultural eras from the Twenties to the Fifties.
Artifact is available to pre-order and pre-save now. With a bold creative vision and a return to artistic curiosity, Parov Stelar’s latest chapter looks set to further solidify his status as one of electronic music’s most inventive voices.
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