Raz Ohara finds light through layered memory on the radiant “Ignited”

With a career marked by shapeshifting sonics and quietly influential collaborations, Berlin’s Raz Ohara has always occupied the edges — a musician content to haunt the spaces between genres rather than be boxed inside them. On “Ignited,” the second single from his forthcoming album Memories of Tomorrow, Ohara once again sidesteps easy categorisation in favour of something more elusive, more affective: a slow-burning dream in motion.

Released via House Of Frequency on June 27 and premiered via trndmsk, “Ignited” arrives with a featherlight confidence — buoyant and expansive, but never overwrought. Its foundations lie in vintage analogue warmth: a rounded bassline that feels almost tactile, flecked with fluttering synth motifs and organic percussion that stirs without ever rushing. Textures arrive and disappear like passing thoughts, carefully calibrated to feel both intimate and spacious.

Ohara’s vocal — smoke-thin and deeply human — weaves gently through the mix, more emotion than narrative, evoking the resilience that simmers beneath the track’s calm surface. It’s a sound built on memory, but pointed forward. Like the album’s title suggests, Memories of Tomorrow seems less concerned with linear time than with feeling: what we hold onto, and how we prepare to let it go.

If first single “Beyond and Deep Down” hinted at the depth of this sonic world — earning spins on Electronic Groove and Radio Eins — “Ignited” offers a moment of gentle illumination. There's a meditative quality to it all, a softness that recalls the emotional clarity of Bonobo or Moderat, while still holding onto Ohara’s distinct signature: a quiet defiance, a refusal to settle.

With a Babel (Ibiza) summer residency ahead and over 30 million streams to his name, Ohara enters the second half of 2025 not as a veteran resting on legacy, but as an artist still very much in bloom. Ignited is proof that subtlety, when handled with care, can still hit like a revelation.

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