HNNY

Swedish-born dance music maker HNNY's career has two distinct phases. He started out in sample-rich house music, matching the energy of his releases to his work as a live DJ. Midway into his first decade of music, though, he suddenly stepped away from the club scene, and gradually re-emerged with a more ambient-influenced body of work. Johan Cederberg, born in Malmö and raised in Stockholm, was drawn to hip-hop in his youth; the dense, sample-based work of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest had a profound impact on his early style, as did acts as wide-ranging as Four Tet and...