Birrd

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Imagine a style of electronic music that’s perfect for dancing in a dark club or lazing on a sunny beach, and you have imagined Birrd’s debut album, with its cosmic harmonies and reconstructed real-world sounds that combine to form a highly personal and deeply melodic version of machine music.

Curiosity—a distinct approach to life—gives birth to new forms of expression, which in turn create new desires. In the case of 30-year-old Stefan Vogel, alias Birrd (the Anglicized version of his German surname), curiosity has fostered soaring discovery. With the covid lockdowns came the ideal opportunity to devote himself to his passion: melodic electronic music that is at once laid back and dreamy, but with swing, evoking such disparate scenes as the Corsican coast and the New York skyline, which are among the numerous inspirations for this Franco-Italian-American artist.

Birrd has travel coursing through his veins, hence his ongoing desire to seek out new horizons. Nothing, however, predestined him to be a composer of emotional, energetic techno. His childhood beginnings on piano and recorder evolved into an adolescent infatuation with guitar and keyboard blues and playing in a band. When the band split up he turned to composing with machines, starting from simple motifs to create beautiful sounds. Having shed his initial belief that electronic music necessarily had to be brutal and loud, he incorporated the influences that have colored his music ever since, including Pink Floyd’s guitars, Worakls, NTO, Joris Delacroix, Rodriguez Jr.’s synthesizers, and Stephan Bodzin’s melancholy.

Four years spent in Munich exposed him to the local techno scene and confirmed his true love: melodies, harmonic progressions, the combination of the epic and the sensitive, where the urge to dance is just one of several possible reactions.

Birrd is a paradoxical personality, a traveler tethered to his base in Rouen, a composer of electronic music that is just as much at ease in a grand hall as in one’s living room, flirting with techno but without the bleakness, more synth than turntables. When not producing music for commercial advertisements or meditation apps, he is hard at work blending various facets of a previously distant culture. He codes his MIDI controller, staying clear of factory presets and nurturing his own sonorities comprising everything from the surf on a beach to a bicycle shifting gears. Through harmonic loops, from clear techno roots to inspiring melodies, Birrd eloquently conveys his passion.
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Top tracks

01
Zora (Birrd Remix)
Makoto San
Zora (Birrd Remix)
03:35
Composers: Loris Bini - Nathanaël Pinna - Nicolas Aubin - Rémi Bosch - Stefan Vogel
01
Alba
Birrd
Alba
04:51
Composers: Stefan Vogel
02
20 Meters
Birrd
Alter Echo
04:12
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Abyss
Birrd
Abyss
04:32
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Escape
Birrd
Escape
04:53
Composers: Stefan Vogel
03
Void Loop
Birrd
Alba
04:05
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Khamsin
Birrd
Khamsin
03:26
Composers: Stefan Vogel - Théo Le Vigoureux
01
Alter Echo (Les Gordon Remix)
Birrd
Alter Echo (Les Gordon Remix)
04:52
Composers: Stefan Vogel - Marc Mifune
01
Final Stretch
Birrd
Final Stretch
03:55
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Wheels
Birrd
Wheels
04:05
Composers: Stefan Vogel
04
Sailing to Bastia
Birrd
Alba
05:32
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Rivière
Birrd
Rivière
03:23
Composers: Stefan Vogel
05
Metropolis
Birrd
Alba
04:43
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Morgat
Birrd
Morgat
03:16
Composers: Stefan Vogel
03
Vision (Birrd Remix)
VAPA
Venloer (Remixes)
04:40
Writer: VAPA / Composers: David Raimbaud - Stefan Vogel
03
Deux Princesses
Birrd
Nocturne insolite au Louvre
02:58
Composers: Stefan Vogel
03
Alter Echo
Birrd
Alter Echo
04:38
Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
DIA (Birrd Rework)
Martin Kohlstedt
DIA (Birrd Rework)
03:41
Composers: Martin Kohlstedt - Stefan Vogel
02
No Time To Shine
Birrd
Alba
03:48
Writer: Stefan Vogel / Composers: Stefan Vogel
01
Welcome to Kokkedal
Les Gordon
Welcome to Kokkedal
03:45

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  • Discography
Albums
Yotanka Records
09-02-2024
Alter Echo
01
Surface
Birrd
Alter Echo
01:41
Composers: Stefan Vogel
02
20 Meters
Birrd
Alter Echo
04:12
Composers: Stefan Vogel
03
Alter Echo
Birrd
Alter Echo
04:38
Composers: Stefan Vogel
04
Abyss
Birrd
Alter Echo
04:32
Composers: Stefan Vogel
05
Submarine Queen
Birrd
Alter Echo
03:51
Composers: Stefan Vogel
06
Morgat
Birrd
Alter Echo
03:16
Composers: Stefan Vogel
07
Earthbound
Birrd
Alter Echo
05:31
Composers: Stefan Vogel
EPs
Yotanka Records
09-06-2023
Nocturne insolite au Louvre
01
Rivière
Birrd
Nocturne insolite au Louvre
03:23
Composers: Stefan Vogel
02
Portrait équestre
Birrd
Nocturne insolite au Louvre
03:40
Composers: Stefan Vogel
03
Deux Princesses
Birrd
Nocturne insolite au Louvre
02:58
Composers: Stefan Vogel
04
Effet d'hiver
Birrd
Nocturne insolite au Louvre
03:47
Composers: Stefan Vogel
Yotanka Records
25-11-2022
Alba
01
Alba
Birrd
Alba
04:51
Composers: Stefan Vogel
02
No Time To Shine
Birrd
Alba
03:48
Writer: Stefan Vogel / Composers: Stefan Vogel
03
Void Loop
Birrd
Alba
04:05
Composers: Stefan Vogel
04
Sailing to Bastia
Birrd
Alba
05:32
Composers: Stefan Vogel
05
Metropolis
Birrd
Alba
04:43
Composers: Stefan Vogel
Singles
℗ 2025 Yotanka Records
13-06-2025
Khamsin (Extended Mix)
01
Khamsin (Extended Mix)
Birrd
Khamsin (Extended Mix)
05:34
Composers: Stefan Vogel - Théo Le Vigoureux
02
Khamsin
Birrd
Khamsin (Extended Mix)
03:26
Composers: Stefan Vogel - Théo Le Vigoureux
℗ 2024 Yotanka Records
13-05-2025
Khamsin
01
Khamsin
Birrd
Khamsin
03:26
Composers: Stefan Vogel - Théo Le Vigoureux
℗ 2025 Yotanka Records
21-03-2025
Final Stretch
01
Final Stretch
Birrd
Final Stretch
03:55
Composers: Stefan Vogel
℗ 2024 Arbuste (exclusively licensed to Yotanka Records)
09-01-2025
Zora (Birrd Remix)
01
Zora (Birrd Remix)
Makoto San
Zora (Birrd Remix)
03:35
Composers: Loris Bini - Nathanaël Pinna - Nicolas Aubin - Rémi Bosch - Stefan Vogel
02
Zora
Makoto San
Zora (Birrd Remix)
03:51
Composers: Loris Bini - Nathanaël Pinna - Nicolas Aubin - Rémi Bosch
℗ 2024 Mouton Noir Records
06-12-2024
Ride On (Birrd Remix)
01
Ride On (Birrd Remix)
Museau
Ride On (Birrd Remix)
04:04
Writer: Julie Tocqueville / Composers: Clément Durand - Stefan Vogel
℗ 2024 MCR
08-11-2024
Welcome to Kokkedal
01
Welcome to Kokkedal
Les Gordon
Welcome to Kokkedal
03:45
2024 Edition Kohlstedt
21-06-2024
DIA (Birrd Rework)
01
DIA (Birrd Rework)
Martin Kohlstedt
DIA (Birrd Rework)
03:41
Composers: Martin Kohlstedt - Stefan Vogel
℗ 2024 Yotanka Records
12-04-2024
Alter Echo (Les Gordon Remix)
01
Alter Echo (Les Gordon Remix)
Birrd
Alter Echo (Les Gordon Remix)
04:52
Composers: Stefan Vogel - Marc Mifune
℗ 2024 VF Musiques - tôt Ou tard
07-03-2024
Change My World (Birrd Remix)
01
Change My World (Birrd Remix)
Alice On The Roof
Change My World (Birrd Remix)
03:33
Writer: Alice Dutoit / Composers: Alice Dutoit
Yotanka Records
12-01-2024
Submarine Queen
01
Submarine Queen
Birrd
Submarine Queen
03:51
Composers: Stefan Vogel
Yotanka Records
28-11-2023
Morgat
01
Morgat
Birrd
Morgat
03:16
Composers: Stefan Vogel
Yotanka Records
16-10-2023
Abyss
01
Abyss
Birrd
Abyss
04:32
Composers: Stefan Vogel