Ahead of his new EP, the Russian ambient phenom shares the tracks that pulled him through a period of identity collapse, reinvention, and strange new sonic ground.
Øneheart’s music has always felt built for the spaces between things: night drives, empty rooms, half-remembered dreams, the quiet static after everything changes.
The Russian electronic artist, born Dmitry Volynkin, first broke through with “Snowfall,” his ghostly ambient collaboration with Reidenshi that slipped into the bloodstream of the internet and became the soundtrack to billions of TikToks, Reels, edits, and private little emotional earthquakes.
Still only 20, Øneheart has since pushed his world further outward, collaborating with Moby and Scarlxrd, scoring the video game Atomic Heart, and helping shine a light on Russia’s overlooked DIY ambient scene.
His forthcoming EP find yourself digs into something more personal. Written from the end of 2024 onward, the project was born from a period of rupture, uncertainty, and becoming.
“find yourself is a story about searching, about the collapse of a former identity and the first careful steps toward a new one,” Øneheart says. “It’s that uncertain state where you still haven’t found yourself, but you already know there’s no way back to the path you once followed.”
While the melancholic ambient core remains, the EP widens into hyperpop, botanica, IDM, future garage, and other fractured electronic textures.
Ahead of its release on Friday, May 22, Øneheart shares the tracks he kept returning to while building find yourself: a playlist of music that shaped the project, haunted the process, and helped him find a way forward.
‘These are the songs that really shaped my musical journey and mean a lot to me personally. This is the selection I always kept returning to and what really inspired me to make the ‘find yourself’ project.‘