Felsmann + Tiley

Felsmann + Tiley are a German producer duo known for their emotionally charged, drumless blend of synthwave, neoclassical, and cinematic music. Best known for their reinterpretation of M83’s Solitude—which has amassed over 200 million streams—the pair maintain a distinctive yet largely anonymous profile. Formed in 2017 after a five-year creative break, the duo originally met in 2003 on a music production forum, bonding over melancholic trance and a shared hometown of Stuttgart. Their early career included club tracks and global DJ tours, but their current sound emerged from a desire to fuse electronic, classical, and film music—under the self-imposed rule of excluding drums. Their debut album Tempora (2018) was a conceptual rework of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, while 2020’s Weltschmerz captured the existential gloom of the pandemic. With 2022’s Retrovision, they shifted toward