Insights

10hr 20min

of curated sound

5 mixes · 201 tracks · 270 artists

Total Mixes

201

Tracks Played

172

Unique Tracks

270

Artists

97%

Spotify Coverage

Your Sound

Dance 97 51%

Dance / Pop 14 7%

Dubstep 12 6%

Bass House 12 6%

Tech House 8 4%

House 8 4%

Electronic 8 4%

Electronica 6 3%

Trap / Future Bass 3 2%

Pop 3 2%

Melodic House & Techno 3 2%

Hip-Hop 3 2%

Deep House 3 2%

Reggae & Dancehall 2 1%

R&B 2 1%

Afro House 2 1%

UK Garage / Bassline 1 1%

Rap 1 1%

Signature Tracks

×3

Waves

Zeds Dead, Flux Pavilion, DeathbyRomy

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 011 Sonic Canvas 012

×3

MR. SANDMAN

Oppidan

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 011 Sonic Canvas 013

×3

No Broke Boys - AVELLO Remix

AVELLO, Disco Lines, Tinashe

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 011 Sonic Canvas 013

×2

Ray Of Solar

Swedish House Mafia

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 013

×2

Dress Code

Mau P

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 011

×2

PLAY SOME RECORDS

AYYBO, Dances

Sonic Canvas 011 Sonic Canvas 012

×2

When The Beat Bang Extended Version

Tchami, Malaa

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 012

×2

Dirty Cash (Money Talks)

PAWSA, The Adventures Of Stevie V

Sonic Canvas 010 Sonic Canvas 011

×2

Heaven Takes You Home - SHM Remake

Swedish House Mafia, Connie Constance

Sonic Canvas 010 Sonic Canvas 012

×2

Ease My Mind

Chris Lake, Abel Balder

Sonic Canvas 009 Sonic Canvas 011

Top Artists

AVELLO

5 plays

Flux Pavilion

5 plays

Disco Lines

4 plays

4 Swedish House Mafia

5 Tchami

6 Zeds Dead

7 AYYBO

8 Chris Lake

9 DeathbyRomy

10 Mau P

11 Oppidan

12 PAWSA

13 Sean Paul

14 Tape B

15 Tinashe

16 Abel Balder

17 Alok

18 ClockClock

19 Connie Constance

20 D.O.D

Top Labels

1 Polydor Records 5 tracks

2 Black Book Records 5 tracks

3 Helix Records 4 tracks

4 Virgin

5 Thrive Music

6 THRIVE MUSIC

7 Promised Land Recordings

8 Nice Life/Atlantic

9 Heldeep Records

10 Deadbeats x Circus Records

11 Big Beat Records

12 Armada Music Bundles

13 Armada Music

14 bitbird

15 WEFOR

16 Tape B

17 TH3RD BRAIN

18 Swedish House Mafia

19 Sweat It Out

20 Subsidia

Genre by Mix

Sonic Canvas 009

2026-01-30

Dance 78% Dubstep 13% Tech House 9%

Sonic Canvas 010

2026-02-14

Dance 94% Funk 6%

Sonic Canvas 011

2026-02-20

Dance 73% Deep House 7% House 8% Dubstep 8% Pop 5%

Sonic Canvas 012

2026-03-20

Dance 74% Electronic 10% House 8% Tech House 7%

Sonic Canvas 013

2026-04-24

Dance 62% House 15% Electronic 13% Progressive House 6% Hip-Hop 5%

Where to Buy

🎧 Beatsource 54% 108

🎵 Beatport 40% 80

💿 Bandcamp 4% 9

🍎 iTunes 1% 3

🎧 Spotify 0% 1

10hr 20min of curated sound

On Closer Listen

Steel Orca is a long-form selector dressed as a party DJ. The mixes move like sets built by someone who actually thinks about the hour ahead of the drop, not just the drop.

On paper it reads like another big-room catalog — pop-house openers, predictable peaks, a dubstep detonation on cue. In the listening it behaves differently. Each Sonic Canvas takes its time arriving, leans on warmth before weight, and trusts a closer like "MR. SANDMAN" to undercut its own euphoria. The palette hasn't reinvented itself across the run, and it doesn't need to; what's sharpened is the patience of the first half and the wit of the exit. Consistency, here, is the argument.