Amarok (Chicago, IL)
-Chilluminati

  Amarok, aka Piotr Kedzior, has been a force in the development and celebration of psychedelic trance in the Midwest USA for many years now.  Producing and DJing electronic music became an irreplaceable part of his life sometime around 2006, when his first forays into the Electro and Drum and Bass genres inevitably led to an yen for sharing paradigm-pushing rhythms with bubbling hot dancefloors.  

 As half of psytrance production duo Future Sight, he collaborated with Kenny Sefton on extending the potency of contemporary psychedelic trance.  Three releases, multiple singles, and a Top 10 spot on Beatport (for 2014’s “Evolution” on Hooki-Sonic Recordings, a juicy and melodic psy stomper) filled out his initial series of experiences with the rigors of musical production. As time moved on it was clear to him that DJing and event promotion was an authentic calling whose voice he simply could not ignore:  Mainstage bookings at Sacred Earth Open-Air 2018 and 2019, HUNAB-KU and KUKULKAN (Dimensional Mayan Tribe) located in Texas followed shortly thereafter; each of these sets alone constituted a memorable contribution to a vital presence for psytrance throughout the USA, and he began to attract a musical following.  His geographical and sonic reach widened as he continued to mature as a DJ; he was affiliated with Chilluminati as the Chicago Psytrance Ambassador specializing in the Full-On and progressive “morning” styles of psychedelic trance and psytech

In 2019 as a Chilluminati DJ and promoter based in Chicago, he overseed a series of club bi-monthlies called “Psychedelic Tendencies” in which the psychedelic family essentially takes over a commercial space and everybody in the house attempts to identify an upper limit of possibility: But when the Covid Pandemic hit that came to a screeching halt.
 In 2021 he came back for vengeance hosting Chicago’s first TECHNO and Psytrance event called Connexionism. With its huge success he plans on bringing Psytrance and psychedelic culture back to the Chicago Underground. 

His mission is, above all, to make moments possible for people, in which the mundane and the overwhelming give peaceful way to a sense of bliss, a place that’s special, even if only for a couple of hours.  Sharing sonic medicine with the world: it’s his greatest passion as a promoter and as a DJ, and he does it with honest pride and a brave love of music and community.

Rave to the grave! Goin’ hard since the 90’s. 
Life is too short to let it pass you by.

Cork-based DJ & producer, active on the Irish scene from the late '90s to mid-2000s. Cut his teeth with legendary residencies at Doyles and The Catwalk Bar, while holding down regular slots on the city’s infamous pirate stations: Kiss FM, Klub FM and Radio Friendly. Life took over and the decks went quiet in 2005.


Fast-forward to 2019 and the fire was reignited. Armed with a studio full of new ideas, Hammy returned with a string of bootlegs and edits that quickly built a loyal following on SoundCloud, blending peak-time house and uplifting trance with that unmistakable Cork energy.


Since 2022 he’s been a regular fixture behind the decks at Edison Cork, bringing the same raw, crowd-moving selections that made him a name back in the day.


Releases on Lefty Shades Records, BLINDsided, Mumbler Music and Cleveland City followed, but it was April 2025 that changed everything: Bryan Kearney dropped Hammy’s “Area 51 Epidemic” bootleg live, sending the internet into meltdown and pushing follower counts through the roof. The demand led to an official rework released as "DJ Hammy – Epidemic 2025" on Cleveland City Records.


Next up: his debut original trance single “Free Yourself” on Positive State Records – a euphoric, hands-in-the-air statement of intent from a producer who never really left, he just took the scenic route back.


Old school heart, new school drive. Cork’s own.  

Still here. Still hammering. 🔨



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