Vahakn Drops 'Beloved' - A Sci-Fi Dark Disco Transmission From the Future Underground

Dark disco propulsion from a sci-fi car chase through time.

British–Lisbon based sonic experimentalist Vahakn returns with 'Beloved' via Pretty Decent Music Records, a snarling, filmic dive into dark disco futurism that feels equal parts rave hallucination and sci-fi score.

Built like a lost soundtrack to a 3000AD prohibition car chase, 'Beloved' opens in grit and motion before mutating into a pressure-heavy groove where fractured breakbeats and molten synth lines collide. The track’s DNA sits somewhere between The Chemical Brothers’ widescreen chaos, Clark’s glitch-architectural detail, and Justice’s chrome-plated funk, but filtered through Vahakn’s distinctly textural, almost tactile production style.

A pulsing transmission-like vocal threads through the arrangement, dissolving into “ochre-cloud” breakdowns before snapping back into four-to-the-floor propulsion. It’s dance music engineered for both club systems and headphone deep dives, constantly shifting between tension and release.

“This is my answer to a 1930s prohibition car chase scene set in the year 3000+,” Vahakn explains, citing influences from Jan Hammer to improvised studio acoustics in an unexpected space tied to illustrator Kate Greenaway.

'Beloved' marks the fourth chapter in his evolving series of cinematic electronic releases - part rave document, part speculative world-building exercise.