Tinlicker

Micha Heyboer and Jordi van Achthoven, working together as Tinlicker since 2014, are based in Utrecht and have built one of the most coherent album-led catalogues in the modern Anjunadeep ecosystem. Their breakout arrived with the 2019 debut album This Is Not Our Universe — released on Anjunadeep and treated by the label as a flagship LP — featuring tracks like "Breezeblocks" and "Lost" that defined the sound that would shape Anjunadeep's direction for the following five years. Subsequent albums Because You Move Me (2020), In Another Life (2022), and Never Let Me Go (2024) have made Tinlicker among the rare modern electronic acts whose discography is structured as albums rather than as a string of singles. The records reward sustained listening: each is built around a consistent harmonic palette, the running order matters, and the instrumental tracks function in conversation with the vocal-led ones. The approach has produced one of the more critically respected catalogues in the contemporary melodic-house space. Their live presentations — particularly the Anjunadeep Open Air Prague set (recorded for ABGT350) and the Anjunadeep × Printworks London editions — have helped articulate what a long-form modern progressive set sounds like in 2024-2026, with sustained 10-to-30-minute musical arcs rather than peak-time-only programming. The duo regularly headline Anjunafamily events globally, and their 5.8 million Spotify monthly listeners place them comfortably in the upper bracket of the contemporary melodic-house scene. Tinlicker also operate independent of the Anjunadeep system through Bandcamp self-releases and one-off projects, a posture that gives them creative latitude unusual for a flagship label artist. For listeners interested in album-era melodic house — the territory between Above & Beyond's late-period vocal work and the Afterlife melodic-techno scene — Tinlicker are currently one of its most distinctive voices.