About / Ray Velarde
Built from rhythm.
Kept by instinct.
Ray Velarde is an independent artist, producer, and DJ whose work grew from club nights, studio experiments, and the drive to release music on his own terms. Hipnotic was an earlier DJ alias; today, the music is released and found under Ray Velarde.
Artist / Producer / DJThe story
The music came first. The rest followed.
Long before streaming became the default, Ray was putting his music into digital stores through Velarde Productions and finding listeners across online platforms. That independent path still defines the work: write it, shape it, release it, and let people discover it wherever they listen.
His catalog moves through house, dance, electronic textures, melody, and piano. The same curiosity carries into performance, video, and photography—different ways of catching the energy of a room and turning it into something that lasts.
How Ray works
Follow the feeling.
Finish the idea.
Ray is drawn to music that changes the temperature of a room: a rhythm that pulls people closer, a melody that opens the space, or one unexpected sound that makes a track feel personal.
Whether the starting point is a beat, a piano phrase, a photograph, or a live moment, the goal is the same—to make something honest, complete it, and put it into the world.
Photography
Finding the frame inside the noise.
Photography gives Ray another way to work with timing. He is drawn to nightlife, people, performance, and available light—not simply to document how a scene looked, but to remember how it felt to be there.
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