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Elusive French producer Gesaffelstein announces his forthcoming live album Enter The Gamma due out January 23rd, 2026. Enter The Gamma marks the next step in the electronic musician’s career, his first live album. Alongside the album announcement, Gesaffelstein shares the album cut “OPR (live).” A devoted admirer of painter Pierre Soulages, Gesaffelstein draws from the idea that black is not absence but a surface where light takes shape. In Enter The Gamma, that philosophy finds its purest expression yet – sound as a luminous shadow, sculpted to the bone.
Recorded on the acclaimed Enter The Gamma world tour, the album captures Gesaffelstein with no embellishment, just the set as it was: loud, sharp, controlled. The tour cut through major festivals worldwide, debuting at Coachella and including Ultra, Portola, EDC, We Love Green, Les Vieilles Charrues, Summer Sonic, Vac, Palomosa, Lido, Rosendal, Audioriver, and Tecate Pal Norte, along with three sold-out headline shows at Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Radius in Chicago, and Brooklyn Mirage in New York. Each stop sharpened the set as the performances turned into a kind of electronic rite. Rhythm and shadow coalesced into a tension exploring the space between violence and grace.
Enter The Gamma follows 2024’s Gamma, a studio album where Gesaffelstein introduced lyrics for the first time — voiced and written by Yan Wagner — and leaned into minimalist form and emotional restraint.
A singular and magnetic figure in contemporary electronic music, Gesaffelstein has built a career as one of the genre’s foremost live performers. Early on, he made a name for himself as the Frenchman in the skinny black suit, chain-smoking through ferocious club sets. He later evolved into the otherworldly chrome-masked figure locked in a beam of light.
Since emerging in the early 2010s, Gesaffelstein has more than anyone defined the intersection between techno, art, and industrial music. Aleph (2013) set the blueprint: an architectural sound where elegance meets brutality. Its single, “Pursuit,” broke out as an anthem and global attention followed. His exacting approach led to collaborations with A$AP Rocky and The Weeknd (My Dear Melancholy), which were followed by 2019’s Hyperion featuring The Weeknd, HAIM and Pharrell Williams. Hints of an artistic transformation were already audible.
In recent years, he has widened his reach again. He worked with Lil Nas X and Charli XCX, with whom he co-wrote several tracks on BRAT, before collaborating with Lady Gaga after years of mutual interest. Their first meeting on Mayhem yielded four songs (“Killah,” “Garden of Eden,” “Perfect Celebrity,” “Blade of Grass”) that merge his severe, sensual production with her dramatic scale. His remix of “Abracadabra” earned his first Grammy nomination for Best Remixed Recording at the 2026 Grammy Awards.
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