San Francisco’s Lansification isn’t just making electronic music; he’s bending sound into new dimensions. With a signature rooted in French Touch warmth, Afrohouse rhythm, and synthwave nostalgia, Lansification’s craft feels less like production and more like astral architecture. His debut album Constellation (released September 19, 2025) shines as a radiant debut, a work where rhythm becomes orbit, melody becomes light, and every note glows with personal resonance. Among its shimmering galaxies of sound, “Oya” emerges as one of its most captivating stars — a track that bridges human pulse and cosmic expanse with hypnotic precision.
At its core, “Oya” is a vibrant fusion of groove and spirituality, a sonic homage to the Yoruba deity of storms, transformation, and feminine power. From its opening seconds, the track breathes — synths shimmer like distant nebulae while a soft percussive heartbeat takes shape, evoking the rhythm of both rain and ritual. The Afrohouse influence is unmistakable: polyrhythmic drums dance beneath gliding basslines, and the groove feels alive, shifting like clouds caught in lightning.
Lansification’s vocals are a surprising centerpiece — subtle yet soulful, drenched in analog warmth and lightly filtered through a vocoder haze. His tone carries a mysterious calm, an almost spiritual detachment that draws you inward. Each phrase feels intentional, whispered to the cosmos rather than shouted to the crowd. It’s this restraint that gives “Oya” its magnetism; his delivery flows like an incantation, equal parts human and digital, balancing the mechanical pulse of the beat with something deeply organic.
The production is immaculate — layered, textured, and spatially alive. The mix opens like a panoramic sky: shimmering synth pads expand outward, percussion snaps with clarity, and rhythmic effects flutter across the stereo field like celestial dust. Lansification’s understanding of space and sound — shaped by his experience with dyslexia — is profoundly evident here. Where others might hear rhythm, he hears structure; where others might lose pattern, he finds poetry. The result is a track that moves with both mathematical precision and emotional chaos, a beautiful paradox rendered in sound.
“Oya” ultimately feels like a conversation between the divine and the digital. It celebrates motion, transformation, and perception — not just as musical ideas but as reflections of how Lansification experiences the world. His auditory landscape is not linear; it spirals, expands, and breathes.
With Constellation, Lansification invites us into his galaxy, but with “Oya”, he opens the portal. It’s a track that doesn’t just make you move — it makes you float, reminding us that great electronic music doesn’t just fill space; it creates it.
Listen to “Oya” on Spotify
