In just four years, Barry Can't Swim’s meteoric rise has taken his finely-crafted blend of jazz-influenced, spiritual house music around the world a few times already. Although now based in London, his story starts with his humble beginnings in Edinburgh, where aged nine he learned to play the piano, on an instrument his grandfather rescued from a local charity shop. Obsessive by nature, his entire youth revolved around his passion for playing and collecting music, especially jazz, and it was only when he headed to university that he stumbled into electronic music. The rest, as they say,  is history. In 2025, he debuts at Sónar with a DJ set that looks set to confirm his status as a global phenomenon.