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Bubbling Inside is a regular show and mix series focusing on exploring the intersection of left-field bass with house, dub and techno! Xoxo 😘✨

Bubbling Inside

Pocket Candy’s debut EP Dreamin’ unfolds in a dreamlike landscape, translating the surreal nature
of imagined fantasies into sound. Shimmering, ethereal synth lines guide the listener through
dub-infused dimensions, while gritty percussion keeps things grounded with textured,
dancefloor-ready drumwork. Conceptually, Dreamin’ is a sonic interpretation of hyperphantasia—a
condition marked by exceptionally vivid mental imagery. Across five tracks, Pocket Candy brings
both lucid and non-lucid dreams to life, crafting a tangible world of sound. The EP features three
lush, synth-driven tech house originals, each capturing a distinct figment of the imagination,
alongside two remixes by Braver and A.Dixen.
As the debut release from Pocket Candy (aka HAKEEM), Dreamin’ reflects his evolution as a
producer shaped by his experience as a DJ. The EP blends melodic and textural depth with
functional groove, drawing influence from dub, ‘80s synth pop, ‘90s tech-house, and the
contemporary sonic territory explored by labels like Ilian Tape and Wisdom Teeth, or artists such as
Silverlining, L.B. Dub Corp, Dario Zenker, K-Lone, and HLLW.
The EP’s single “Rain Dance” is reimagined through two remixes by long-standing staples of the
Copenhagen scene:
Braver’s remix delivers a tight, groove-driven rework. Lush key stabs, dubby atmospheres, and
intricate percussion fuel a steady momentum, blurring the lines between tech house and dub
techno with contemporary flair sure to get any dancefloor going.
A.Dixen’s version takes a more introspective approach, conjuring a submerged, dub-soaked world.
Synths drift like currents around vocal stabs and a weightless, rolling bassline—coming together in
a track that feels like it could loop forever

Pocket Candy - Dreamin' EP

A couple months ago, a few of us from Copenhagen went to support our Group Therapy friends at their event at Plötzensee in Berlin with Fandango & Hypersoft. On the way, I managed to stop by at Cashmere Radio for a guest mix session. Expect 45min of driving cadences, breaks, electro and techno. Thank you Cashmere Radio for having me, it was definitely a fun weekend! 😈

Cashmere Radio Guest Mix - HAKEEM (22.04.2023)

here's a fun little guest show i did at Cannibal Radio in Athens earlier this summer! hope u enjoy! xoxo

Guestzone w/ HAKEEM @ Cannibal Radio - 22 Jul 2024

trakklist:

Tifra - Bio Lab [PROXY Records, 2024]
Plantastik - Abyss [Kickin Records, 1998]
Alessandro Adriani - S.O.U.L. (Voodoo Mix) [PAG Records, 2020]
Cooly G - Hard [Hyperdub Records, 2017]
Kassian - Pulgueiro Baile  [K7 Records, 2024]
Adiel - Ritmo [Danza Tribale, 2018]
DJ Seduce - Sweet Zoo [Self-release, 2025]
Leod - Untitled 03 [Self-release, 2023]
Acid Jerks - Distant Power Plant [Nu Groove Records, 2023]
Sedef Adasi - Power of X [Standard Deviation, 2021] 
DJ Seduce - Forest [Self-release, 2025]
James Bangura - The District [Numbers, 2024]   
Alexander Skancke - You Get A Two [Self-release, 2024]
Al Wootton - Xana [TRULE, 2024]
Regal86 -  Tablets [Self-release, 2021]
Shed - The Praetorian [50Weapons, 2012]

Bubbling Inside 006 HAKEEM b2b DGERAL

For the final hour of the Outlook Origins Takeover Gavnlig and HAKEEM bring a culmination of their styles. Its broadly broken techno and percussive bass music but theres such a wealth of genre influences here its redundant to name them. But the thread is clear and its a style firmly rooted in the UK. The confidence at which energy is injected and stripped back is testament to their respective skills: driving, playful, headsy, its got it all. 


Outlook Origins Takeover w/ Gavnlig b2b HAKEEM @ Radio Panini (29.03.2025)

Live from Berlin: Nightfall guided by HAKEEM – tune in for the final frequency! 🍷

HAKEEM [13.05.25]

Bubbling Inside begins the pre-party takeover with HAKEEM & A.dixen sharing arms. An hour of classy dub techno and minimal house dense with atmospheric washes whilst retaining a proper 4x4 attitude. Includes tunes from Dorisburg, Round Two, and Rework.


Bubbling Inside w/ HAKEEM + A.Dixen @ Radio Panini (05.07.2025)

Tine Valentin takes the reins on the second hour of the Bubbling Inside takeover. In true form its a power hour of leftfield club hydraulics and low-end experimentalism. A serious exercise in brain-powered foot movement. Features tunes by Dayzero, Granul, and Piezo amongst others. 


Bubbling Inside w/ Tine Valentin @ Radio Panini (05.07.2025)

Pocket Candy - Space Pie

Pocket Candy - Rain Dance (A.Dixen Remix)

Pocket Candy - Rain Dance (Braver's Sofa Dancer Remix)

For his debut single as Pocket Candy, HAKEEM delivers Rain Dance, a pumping, groove-driven tech house cut laced with larger-than-life synth lines, airy vocal stabs, and dub-soaked textures. The track balances dancefloor weight with an immersive, dreamlike quality — a nod to the forthcoming Dreamin’ EP on Brave Trax. Evoking a lucid dreamscape, Rain Dance invites listeners into a space where driving drum work meets hazy melodic interplay, dissolving the edges between reality and reverie.

Dreamin'

Rain Dance

Pocket Candy - Rain Dance

Pocket Candy - Sofa Surfer

Pocket Candy debuts his new Dreamin’ EP and a host of other tracks within the realm of subtle hypnotic progressivism. It's a tour through ambient tinged house and techno laced with subtle dynamic intricacies and echoed sonic earworms. For the head and heart by way of Marco Zenker, Sub Basics, and Pocket Candy, of course. 

New Releases w/ Pocket Candy pres. “Dreamin’ EP” @ Radio Panini (13.09.2025)

HAKEEM’s loose, genre-bending style is a discovery journey into deep soulful sounds across the spectrum. His crate digging loot always spawns the forgotten classic, the timeless nugget or that familiar break. His DJ sets are a celebration of eclecticism, blending charged rhythmic tension with obscure, seductive textures. Drawing from a deep well of knowledge that spans progressive house, techno, and UK-influenced club sounds, he masterfully weaves together seemingly disparate elements—an approach honed through years of immersion in the scene.  Besides DJing, over the past few years HAKEEM has been active in the local Copenhagen scene by taking different roles at Strøm Festival, Kune and In Situ Festival, as well as Drift Radio and his former multidisciplinary collective, Second Nature. He's also the founder and resident at Bubbling Inside a party and mix series celebrating euphoric, percussive and bass-driven sounds. 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hakeem_irl/?hl=fr
Soundcloud: https://on.soundcloud.com/02IERdAsyDiuZVGhQi

Dreamin' w/ HAKEEM @ GIMIC - 04 October 2025

HAKEEM (all caps) [He/Him]

HAKEEM’s loose, genre-bending style is a discovery journey into deep soulful sounds across the spectrum. His crate digging loot always spawns the forgotten classic, the timeless nugget or that familiar break.

Based in Copenhagen, HAKEEM brings years of experience in the scene to new production alias, Pocket Candy, channeling deep musical curiosity into something tactile, personal, and dancefloor-minded. Rooted in a DJ’s instinct for groove and flow, the project blends hazy textures, shimmering synths, and detailed percussion into tracks that feel just as at home in a late-night set as they do in your headphones. With influences ranging from 90s tech house and dub techno to 80s synth pop and UK-rooted club sounds, Pocket Candy’s music is all about building immersive, rhythmic spaces—lush, hypnotic, and always a little oﬀ-center. Pocket Candy’s first EP, Dreamin’, is now out on BraveTrax.

As a DJ, his sets are a celebration of eclecticism, blending charged rhythmic tension with obscure, seductive sonic textures. Drawing from a deep well of knowledge that spans techno, progressive house and, UK-influenced club sounds, he masterfully weaves together seemingly disparate elements—an approach honed through years of immersion in the scene.

Besides DJing, over the past few years HAKEEM has been active in the local Copenhagen scene by taking different roles at Strøm Festival, Kune and In Situ Festival, as well as Drift Radio and his former multidisciplinary collective, Second Nature.

He's also the founder and resident at Bubbling Inside, a party and mix series celebrating euphoric, percussive and bass-driven sounds.

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/haakeeem 
Bandcamp: https://loosepocketcandy.bandcamp.com/album/dreamin 
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/hakeem_irl/ 

Tracklist: 
A. Dixen - Magnetic North [ØEN REC., 2019]
Ruhig - Lost In The Instability [Midgar, 2015]
Archivist - Psion (Claudio PRC Remix) [Sure Thing, 2021]
Feral - Mambo [Hypnus, 2022]
ALPI - Aquilegia [TRULE, 2023]
Luigi Tozzi - Reptilian [Hypnus, 2025]
PRG/M - Hirpinia-231180 [Midgar, 2019]
SLEEPARCHIVE - Elephant Island [Sleeparchive, 2004]
Function - Modifier [Ostgut Ton, 2012]
Asllan - The Two Towers [Oslated, 2024]
Truss - Beacon [BCCO, 2022]
Von Grall - A Secant Line [Midgar, 2016]
Vera Logdanidi - Keep bleeding [Rhythm Büro, 2025]
Al Wootton & Azu Tiwaline - Blue Dub [Livity Sound, 2022]
inesse - Poltergeist (Jurango Remix) [tactual, 2025]
Surgeon - Serpent Void [Tresor, 2025]
Planetary Assault Systems - Spell A [Ostgut Ton, 2019]
Chistian AB - Locked Groove 1 [Faith Beat, 2024]
Motion Symmetry - Orbassano (Rainsoft Remix) [Oslated, 2025]
Eric Fetcher - Second Extension [Inpure Extension, 2020]
OK EG - Heatwave [Midgar, 2024]
Plebeian - Gowanus [Delsin, 2024]
Sub Basics - Radius [Animalia, 2025]
Oceanic - Sulphur Streams [Nous'klaer Audio, 2021]
Efdemin - Be Here Now [Dial, 2025]
Ruff Cherry -Endless World (Future Mix) [Midgar, 2015]
Skee Mask - LFO [Ilian Tape, 2021]
BONUS TRACK: Pocket Candy - Rain Dance [BraveTrax, 2025]

Dreamin’ w/ HAKEEM [18.10.25]

Bubbling Inside begins its takeover via Gavnlig, delivering an hour of restrained percussive play from straight minimal to leftfield to dub-inflected. Keeps driving without ever forcing itself over any kind of extraneous barrier. Includes subdued and intentioned bits from Azu Tiwaline to Margaret Dygas and Faulter. 

Bubbling Inside w/ Gavnlig @ Radio Panini (18.10.2025)

Talons makes an RP debut for Bubbling Inside. Coming in heavy on an hour pairing straight Rhythm & Sound dub with the washy blissed out techno of Thurlow Joyce and the charged garage of Diskop. Really charting the course of sonic influences here, taking melodics and rhythm in equal import, it's a mix as frenetic as it is fluid.

Bubbling Inside w/ Talons @ Radio Panini (18.10.2025)

producing as Pocket Candy

coming up:

31.12.2025 - NYE Special - HAKEEM b2b MOQST @ Kinyōbi
08.01.2026 - Bird Downtown
09.01.2026 - DJ JM & Maria, Big Tasty, HAKEEM @ Baggen
13.02.2026 - TBA @ Culture Box
27.03.2026 - TBA 

past dates:

13.12.2025 - Radio Panini Secret Lineup @ Jolene
22.11.2025 - Circuit @ Module
09.11.2025 - Den Anden Side 3 Years BDAY @ Pumpehuset
18.10.2025 - Bubbling Inside w Poly Chain, Talons & HAKEEM @ Jolene Bar
18.10.2025 - Mutant Radio Tbilisi
19.09.2025 - All night @ Module 
04.10.2025 - Gimmic Radio Brussels
13.09.2025 - New Releases w/ Pocket Candy pres. “Dreamin’ EP” @ Radio Panini
11.09. 2025 - Pocket Candy - Dreamin' EP release party w/ Braver, A.Dixen, Téa & Gavnlig @ Baggen 
12.07.2025 - Academeia @ Module
05.07.2025 - Bubbling Inside w Smokey b2b N.E. Girl & a.dixen b2b HAKEEM
05.07.2025 - Bubbling Inside Takeover w Tine Valentin & a.dixen b2b HAKEEM @ Radio Panini
06.06.2025 - HAKEEM b2b Baltza @ Pleasure Control Water Party
04.06.2025 - Distortion Club @ Module
24.05.2025 - Gavnlig & HAKEEM all dayer @ Slow Burn Brewery
13.05.2025 - HAKEEM b2b Poly Chain @ Mutant Radio Berlin
02.05.2025 - HAKEEM & Signs of Weakness all nighter @ Module
29.03.2025 - Gavnlig b2b HAKEEM @ OUTLOOK ORIGINS x RADIO PANINI x BAGGEN takeover
29.03.2025 - Bubbling Inside w IRONBOARD (MEX), Malika Mahmoud, Muskila b2b HAKEEM & Maria @ Jolene
08.03.2025 - HAKEEM @ Radio Panini
14.02.2025 - Spin Cycle w Tight Cherry, HAKEEM b2b DJ JM @ Den Anden Side
07.02.2025 - Pana Radio Aarhus
07.02.2025 - FEUM w Sengelyst, HAKEEM & DJ Mohajer @ Institut For X
18.01.2025 - HAKEEM & Keeptress all nighter @ Module
04.01.2025 - Bubbling Inside w Debfoam, HAKEEM b2b Gavnlig & Tine Valentin @ Jolene
14.12.2024 - Bash is Back @ Trixie
19.10.2024 - Radio Panini
17.10.2024 - Spin Cycle w/ HAKEEM & DJ JM @ Drift Radio
13.09.2024 - Kein Angst x The Yard Women @ Module
12.07.2024 - Ground Connection w/ Gavnlig and HAKEEM @ Den Anden Side
06.07.2024 - Tanzen Und Springen @ Module
28.06.2024 - honeydew w/ Fruit DJ, Cirkeline & HAKEEM @ Jolene Bar
27.06.2024 - Ground Connection w/ Gavnlig & HAKEEM @ Drift Radio
16.05.2024 - Radio Panini
18.05.2024 - Radio Panini
25.04.2024 - Spin Cycle 02 @ Drift Radio
13.04.2024 - honeydew w/ Fruit DJ, Cirkeline & HAKEEM @ Jolene Bar
23.02.2024 - honeydew w/ Fruit DJ, Cirkeline & HAKEEM @ Jolene Bar
25.01.2024 - Spin Cycle @ Drift Radio
31.12.2023 - MOTOPOL NYE
26.10.2023 - U Make Me Wanna @ Drift Radio
14.10.2023 - Culture Box - Red Box takeover w/ Tight Cherry, HAKEEM & Dröm
29.08.2023 - Collect Radio (Lisboa)
25.08.2023 - Café Au Lait (Porto) - HAKEEM x Ghetthoven
05.08.2023 - Second Nature # 005 @ Kapelvej 44 - HAKEEM B2B Tight Cherry
22.07.2023 - KUNE Festival
07.07.2023 - Second Nature # 004: Hidden Dungeon
10.05.2023 - Drift Radio
03.05.2023 - Bird CPH
22.04.2023 - Cashmere Radio (Berlin)
03.03.2023 - Second Nature # 003 @ H15 Studio
23.09.2022 - Second Nature # 002 @ Joy Bar
26.08.2022 - HAKEEM b2b Dancehallmandela @ Joy Bar
02.07.2022 - Second Nature @ Joy Bar

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