This was a highly exciting time when stadium-sized EDM was blending with more contemplative styles of electronic music, mixing trap, ambient and trance with jarring sound design and unexpected rhythmic structures.

The release garnered a lot of attention and propelled Leary to the world stage of club music, where he was suddenly surrounded by inspiring peers that in their own way were pushing the envelope of electronic music. He published a mastered version of his first tracks on the Kings and Them mixtape, released in 2012 by the influential label Tri-Angle, which has been the home of seminal producers like Balam Acab, Clams Casino, The Haxan Cloak and LOFT (now known as aya). Watch 'Salt Carousel' by 'Evian Christ - Topic' on Leary was onto something special here and the internet would soon be onto him.

These were moody and melancholic pieces that were experimental in nature, but clicked immediately with whoever found their way to them. His earliest tracks were gnarlier than the proliferating sound of vaporwave, but more contemplative than EDM-heavy trap. Influenced by the droning ambient of Grouper, the trance music of his stepfather who was a trance deejay in northern England, and the rap and R&B platformed on MTV, Leary distilled his own brand of electronic music that combined contemplative soundscapes with pummelling rhythms and captivating vocal hooks. Disconnected from any tangible club scene and practically anonymous behind his moniker, Leary had the freedom to craft his very own sound for a unique musical project that would soon take the world by storm.

When the riveting music of Evian Christ first emerged on the internet in 2011, Joshua Leary, a 22-year-old bedroom producer from the sleepy northern town Ellesmere Port in UK, was virtually unknown. His breakthrough is the stuff of legends: Evian Christ took the world by storm with his captivating blends of trap, trance, ambient and club and has no intention of letting it go.

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