This episode was filmed during Evergreen Songwriting Camp in Montreal, and I got to sit down with POLYKROME (Canadian Screen Award–nominated producer, DJ, and composer) for a real Behind The Music chat about how his sound started—and how it keeps evolving. We open with the fun, immediate moment: he’d literally just dropped a remix of “Without You” by Theo Day, built from a remix pack Evergreen put together. He breaks down why he went for a faster, high-energy house/tech house/techno direction (135 BPM), and how having strong vocals can make the whole production process feel way more effortless. From there, we go deeper into his origin story: growing up in a super musical household in Jordan (classical music, piano, opera), finding drums with friends in high school, then falling hard for electronic music and stumbling into production software “by accident”—and never stopping. We also talk about how Middle Eastern musical traditions differ (like quarter tones and different scales), and why the current wave of genre fusion feels exciting. My biggest takeaway is how seriously he takes community and collaboration: songwriting camps, local scenes, and being in the room with other musicians. He’s honest about creative blocks (sometimes you just suffer through them), but also shares practical ways to reset—step away, go for a walk, or feed your brain with movies and novels. And yes: his advice is simple for a reason—just start.