Atmosphere
ZHU
After-dark tension and controlled heat.
The experiment
Music made in motion.
HEATSOAK is a dark electronic musical experiment run by Trevin Hermosillo and opened to anyone drawn to the same pressure: heat, machines, long roads, heavy bass, and human contact after dark.
Trevin Hermosillo
The driver's seat became the listening room.
Trevin drives a lot. Cannonball runs, races, long-distance missions, and ordinary miles have put years of listening time behind the wheel. The driver's seat became a private room for hearing what survives fatigue, repetition, speed, darkness, and the long gap between one place and the next.
Born and raised in northwest Montana, Hermosillo learned to work with tools in his father's garage before spending a decade in the railroad industry. He later co-founded the experimental R&D company SWAE, helping turn ambitious automotive ideas into one-off machines and road-tested stories. In 2023, Maxim followed him and a small team on a 2,767-mile Porsche expedition from Montana to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
That history does not sit beside HEATSOAK; it runs through it. Mechanical rhythm becomes percussion. Red instruments, wet pavement, engine heat, distance, and the strange intimacy of a night drive become the visual and emotional vocabulary.
HEATSOAK is what happens when the garage, the road, and the headphones become one room.
Signals in the mix
Atmosphere, scale, intimacy.
Hermosillo cites ZHU, Chet Faker, deadmau5, Billie Eilish, and more as inspiration. Their work can make restraint, space, scale, and closeness feel as important as the notes themselves.
Space
Chet Faker
Human grain inside electronic restraint.
Scale
deadmau5
Long-form propulsion and engineered release.
Intimacy
Billie Eilish
Close detail that can still fill a room.
Human direction
An experiment with a visible hand.
Every HEATSOAK track is written, directed, sequenced, and art directed by Trevin Hermosillo. The performances are AI. That production fact is stated directly rather than hidden.
The experiment is not about removing the person. It is about directing new tools with taste, memory, intent, and a coherent point of view, then inviting listeners to share the result and shape their own route through it.
- Artist
- HEATSOAK
- Experiment by
- Trevin Hermosillo
- Sound
- Dark electronic / synthwave
- Debut
- August 2026
- Album
- Thermal Overload
- Focus track
- Melt me
Selected public background
The road into HEATSOAK.
Founder profileGearshift GarageGarage upbringing, railroad work, Cannonball runs, and experimental builds →Independent profileDaily Inter LakeSWAE, R&D, one-off machines, and ten years in the railroad industry →Road storyMaxim2,767 miles from Montana to Prudhoe Bay in modified Porsche Cayennes →CommunityWachholz Innovation CenterBuilder in Residence: founder, investor, and consultant →
Share the experiment
Choose your route through the heat.
Lose the destination inside Night Drive, or take control in Thermal Sequence: pick a track, save the signals that pull you in, and let the system learn the shape of your heat.