In the world of electronic pop, Danny L Harle is something of a Max Martin figure. Over the past several years, the English producer and songwriter has become a go-to collaborator for both emerging and established stars, generating an impressive list of hits while pushing the genre into colourful new directions.
As a solo artist, Harle’s music is decidedly weirder. As a member of PC Music, the revolutionary collective out of London, Harle helped define the exaggerated, bubblegum-and-supersaw sound that defined early hyperpop. On 2021’s Harlecore — a marvellously absurd, high-concept album that imagined a virtual club soundtracked by Harle’s four rave-focused alter-egos — he dove headlong into happy hardcore, gabber…