18/10/2026
It’s 2014, aviators on, vest tan to match and you’re losing it in Ushuaïa as that signature one note hold from ‘Starblazer’ starts to float in. For some, that might be all they know of Deetron. The Swiss fella behind that euphoric house anthem. However there’s a fair bit more to Sam Geiser than a few thousand sunburnt ravers and a very successful piano riff.
Before the Balearic isle glory days was a young hip-hop head finding his feet in Switzerland’s early 90s rave scene. Spinning wax, discovering Detroit techno through the likes of Jeff Mills and eventually securing a residency at Zürich’s Trax. By the late 90s the productions were coming too, under various names. Procreation, Karakter and Starfighterz… different aliases for different strokes.
Then came the records that started getting his name into a few more bags. Miss Suave, The Afterlife with Paris The Black Fu and I Cling alongside Ovasoul7. A steady run of soulful but driving techno and house. Until 2011, when a little DJ tool he’d made for his own sets somehow became Starblazer. Released on Joris Voorn’s Rejected, it went absolutely everywhere. Ibiza, festival stages, terraces and the occasional afters where nobody particularly wanted to hear it was time to go home.
You wouldn’t blame him if he spent the next decade trying to remaking the same tune but instead Deetron kept digging. Photon brought the piano euphoria back with a little more bite, while Mars alongside fellow Swiss producer Ripperton under Roots Panorama helped launch his own Character imprint.
Fast forward a few decades from those first Swiss raves and the aliases are still going, Soulmate exploring deeper territory on Ilian Tape and more recent Deetron cuts like Runnin’ on Nu Groove keeping the house heads happy. Thirty-odd years behind the controls and clearly no particularly interested in picking one lane.
This Halloween, Deetron joins the Zenker Brothers for a special b2b at The Cause on Saturday 31st October.
Deetron
