Hugel

Hugel is the working name of French DJ and producer Florian Hugel, who began his career as a teenage DJ, drawn to acts like Daft Punk, Carl Cox and Laurent Garnier. He built his profile through a run of house records that lean heavily on Latin rhythms, percussion and Spanish-language vocals.

His first widely noticed record was "I Believe I'm Fine," a 2017 collaboration with Robin Schulz that went gold. The following year his remix of El Profesor's "Bella Ciao" became a substantial hit across European dance charts, going platinum in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and passing 280 million streams; it remains the track most listeners associate with him.

Since then he has concentrated on a warm, mid-tempo strain of Latin house, often built around guest singers and cumbia- or reggaeton-adjacent grooves rather than big-room drops, releasing "Morenita" in 2021. He has held residencies at Ibiza clubs including Ushuaia and Pacha.

He works largely as a studio producer and remixer alongside DJ dates, and his catalogue sits at the commercial end of house without abandoning the percussion-first template. In 2024 he released "I Adore You" with Topic, Arash and Daecolm, his most successful single to date.