Bio

Sean Rich

DJ and producer · Barcelona

Sean Rich plays melodic techno the way it was built to be played: slowly, loudly and with the machines still running.

Born in Cadiz and based in Barcelona since 2013, he spent five years as a mastering assistant before ever playing a club. That is audible in everything he does. The records are quiet where other people push, and the sets breathe in places where the room expects a drop.

He has held a monthly residency at Nitsa Club since 2024, released on Nocturn, Afterlight and Semantica, and played rooms from a three hundred capacity basement in Berlin to the terrace at Club Space.

Sean Rich behind the decks in a dark booth

Shows played: 180+
Countries: 24
Releases: 9
Resident since: 2024

Warm, patient, analogue

The sound

The signal chain has barely changed in four years: a Juno-106, a TR-909 with one broken pot, a spring reverb and a quarter-inch tape machine that runs eight cents sharp. Everything is recorded in one pass, in one room, with the mistakes left in.

Field recordings made in empty clubs sit underneath most tracks. They are never audible on their own, but remove them and the record flattens.

Synthesizer and drum machine in the studio

I spent five years being paid to make other people's records louder. Now I get paid to leave space in my own.

Poble Sec, Barcelona

In the studio

Roland Juno-106 (1984, original filter)
Roland TR-909 with a half-travel hi-hat decay
Great British Spring reverb tank
Revox B77 running eight cents sharp, deliberately
Allen & Heath Xone:92 as a summing mixer
Sony PCM-D100 for field recording

No plugin emulations of any of the above. If it is on the record, it was in the room.

Autumn 2026 into 2027

Right now

The Lowlight EP is out on Nocturn. The tour runs from Barcelona in September through to Sonar in June, with the Nitsa residency continuing monthly throughout.

A second record is half-written and will not be rushed this time.

Timeline

2008
First record bought in Cadiz
A second-hand copy of a Detroit twelve-inch, bought with money meant for a school trip.
2013
Moves to Barcelona
Takes a job as a mastering assistant. Does not play a club for another three years.
2016
First club booking
A Tuesday warm-up at a bar in Raval, for forty euros and two drinks.
2019
Debut EP on Afterlight
Three tracks recorded in a rented rehearsal room with no soundproofing.
2022
Leaves the mastering studio
Goes full time. Keeps the ears.
2024
Nitsa residency begins
One night a month, same room, no guests. Still running.
2026
Lowlight EP
Eleven days, one signal chain, five tracks. The record that changed the bookings.