Sam Feldt

No matter what the calendar says, it’s always summer in Sam Feldt’s music. The Dutch producer combines tropical-house atmospheres, big-room drums and effortless pop songwriting to create a sound that glows like a sunset. Born in 1993, the Netherlands native launched his career in 2014 with “Bloesem” (Dutch for “blossom”), capturing the easygoing spirit of the nascent melodic-house scene in breezy flutes and a lilting reggae backbeat. Over the next few years, he kept expanding tropical house’s organic parameters, lacing “Show Me Love” with evocative birdsong and sculpting “Been a While” around twinkling acoustic guitar and trumpet. On 2017’s double album Sunrise to Sunset, he levelled up to bigger, bolder pop songwriting and indulged a main-stage sweet tooth on the first disc, then eased into mellower, more sentimental vibes in the album’s back half. His subsequent singles have kept pushing outward, slipping between acoustic accents (“Gold”), UK garage rhythms (“Hide & Seek”) and bold, brassy horn charts (“2 Hearts”). Whatever the style or instrumentation, the mood of Feldt’s music is unfailingly upbeat. As he told Apple Music, his music boils down to a simple but powerful combination: “Emotional, melodic and filled with good summer vibes.”