What Does Belladonna Sound Like?

Built on years of producing for others, Nico Chiara’s instinct for crafting music that moves people is unmistakable. He spent years behind the scenes shaping records for artists across Germany, Europe, and even the U.S., where he worked with major rappers and pop acts. His fingerprints were all over the music—but there was always a filter, always a compromise to fit someone else’s vision. Belladonna is what happens when those filters fall away.

The sound itself sits perfectly within the world of melodic techno but refuses to get lost inside it. Belladonna tracks stretch out in long, hypnotic movements, pulling listeners into a zone where time bends and details feel sharper. Heavy synths rise and fall like tides, layered over basslines that don’t just thump—they breathe and move. There’s an undercurrent of rhythm, an undeniable bounce, rooted in Nico’s early background with hip-hop—a ghost that still lingers in the way his percussion hits harder, swings looser, and feels less mechanical than the polished perfection common to the genre.

It’s music built for the deep hours: rooms lit by low strobes, moments where you forget exactly where you are. Belladonna’s tracks aren’t about hooks or formulas—they’re about immersion. Each one feels like walking into a story mid-chapter, unsure where it started, but pulled forward anyway.

Naturally, this sound finds a home alongside the Afterlife scene—an environment built around the same idea of bending perception and blurring reality.

Belladonna’s work lives between two instincts: the precision of a producer who knows how to move mass audiences, and the curiosity of an artist who no longer answers to trends. His tracks aren’t trying to light up algorithms. They aim for something deeper, something that sticks with you long after the song fades out.

In the end, Belladonna sounds like what happens when an artist trusts their instincts completely—and refuses to explain too much, letting the music do the speaking instead.