Haider Uppal

Haider’s journey as a dedicated artist, producer, DJ, composer and remixer over the past decade has led him to bridge the gap between his native music scene in Pakistan and the broader Western landscape, undeterred by the geographic and cultural distances from techno hubs of the West.

His exceptional skills have not gone unnoticed, with notable achievements including a remix release of Nabihah Iqbal on Ninja Tune.

"Drifting, emotive and more than a little dreamy — that’s the kind of house music you’ll find on ‘Graduated,’ the debut full-length from the Lahore, Pakistan–based producer Haider Uppal. It’s a beautiful and assured collection of tunes, the culmination of several years of original productions, collaborations, and remixes/edits for the likes of Nightmares On Wax, Powel and BLOND:ISH. Uppal’s musical career started as a teenager back home in Lahore, but ‘Graduated’ began to take shape while attending school in Michigan, where he soaked up the sounds of house and techno emanating from nearby Detroit.

You can hear faint echoes of the kind of music that Motor City artists like the late Mike Huckaby would make while in house mode — but Uppal’s music shares even more in common with the vaguely hallucinatory sound of artists like YokoO. Perhaps that’s not a coincidence, as he helps to manage Satya Recs” - DJ Mag North America