Dee Montero is a lifer. He’s the former Mambo Ibiza resident who at the end of 2017 received Pete Tong’s Essential Tune Of The Year on BBC Radio 1 for the string-fuelled, epic end-of-nighter ‘Halcyon’, released on Solomun’s Diynamic imprint. And he’s been busy ever since with eps including ‘Pangaea’ on Knee Deep In Sound, ‘Shadows’ on All Day I Dream, and the scintillating ‘In The Wild’ and ‘Headspace’ featuring Meliha on Anjunadeep. From Asia to America and everywhere in between it’s all been about the music for Dee. Performances in Australia, India and Dubai have been interspersed with US tours and appearances at Burning Man on the Robot Heart and Carl Cox’s Playground stages. In 2020 Dee launched his own imprint Futurescope bringing in fellow musical alchemists Patrice Baumel, Fort Romeau and Lauer for remix duties. He unleashed his diverse 12 track artist album in 2022 playing to those deft melodic touches, twinkling synths and positive peaks. ‘Maya’, the standout track from the LP and a homage to Future Sound Of London’s ‘Papua New Guinea’ got a special rework treatment from Rodriguez Jr. pushing the release to even bigger, higher heights. As well as forthcoming eps on Nora En Pure’s Purified label later this year Dee’s next single ‘Freedom’ on Hot Since 82’s Knee Deep In Sound will continue the upward electronic pressure into summer 2023. These are exciting times for an artist with Dee’s attention to detail and there are so many sonic terrains still left to discover…