Odymel Channels Rave Romanticism on Debut Album ‘ENDLESS RECESS’ - Out Tomorrow

Brussels’ Odymel makes music that sits between nostalgia and the now. His debut album ENDLESS RECESS, out tomorrow via Urban Records / Universal Music Group, pushes that tension into a fully realised world: sixteen tracks written as one interconnected experience, where motifs reappear, emotions mutate, and melody becomes the thread binding everything together. It’s club music shaped by memory, instinct and cinematic scale.

Rather than fitting into a single lane, the record absorbs everything that shaped him: early European rave romanticism, the emotional intensity of 2000s French electronic music, post-punk edges, left-field club experimentation and the physicality of modern techno. The result isn’t French touch, techno or trance yet carries pieces of all of them, refracted through Odymel’s melodic approach and rebuilt into something contemporary. A hybrid identity that feels distinctly Brussels but culturally cross-wired.

The album lands after a defining year that’s seen Odymel play Tomorrowland Mainstage (Belgium & Brazil), TML Summer, Dour, ZeeZout, Glitch Festival and Hï Ibiza, alongside five sold out shows at ADE and a sold-out 2000-cap headline show at Ancienne Belgique that went within hours.

What began in small rooms in Brussels now echoes across Europe.

Across its sixteen tracks, ENDLESS RECESS unfolds with its own internal logic. Vitamine C opens in widescreen, setting the emotional temperature of the record. Refraction tightens the focus with a hypnotic push-and-pull. Danser with Boy & Girl folds pop immediacy into his palette. Love Bullet (Part 1 & 2) with Durdenhauer forms the record’s emotional centre, two versions of the same idea viewed from different angles. Fitness with HARD CANDY brings mischievous bite; J’aimerais widens the scope completely, introducing Odymel’s own vocals and guitar in a raw, post-punk moment. It’s Pretty Lovely Out Here offers a rare breath before Rumble 108 with Fenrick drags everything back into motion. Big System, The Curse and Non-Stop close the world at its most explosive bringing full force euphoria to the record.

What ties it all together is tone: a warmth that feels nostalgic without retreating into pastiche and a modern lens that keeps the record alive. Melodic fragments return in new forms; rhythmic silhouettes evolve between tracks; colours shift and reappear. It’s not a concept album, but it behaves like a single narrative - a dancefloor memory.

“A break that never ends, a space where time stops, where worries fade and where music takes over. It’s a celebration of the energy shared between friends when the world outside no longer matters.”

At its heart, ENDLESS RECESS is about stepping into a moment that feels suspended from the outside world. A night that stretches, where friends feel closer, where emotion lands louder and where the music becomes the connective tissue. A break that never ends.

Released through Urban Records, the UMG sub-label now expanding beyond its hip-hop origins into future-facing European electronic music, ENDLESS RECESS positions Odymel as one of Belgium’s most distinctive new voices. It’s a record built for crowded rooms and late nights, but also for the quiet moments after. Proof that rave romanticism still has something new to say.

ENDLESS RECESS arrives tomorrow. Are you ready?

Tracklist:
Odymel - Vitamin C