Joe Carl & Kat Unso’s collaboration investigates inner dichotomies of self and other. There is an intrinsic longing for more going on; an indistinct craving for encounter. Inner fantasies of escapes and escapades – a pulsating longing for more.

Who are you? 
I am you? 
But I am me! 
No, you are me! 
Don’t you see me?! 
I see no body, no man marching in this world; 
No place to go. No thing to offer. But because it is simple, we don’t see it. 
Where are we going? There is no place, we haven’t arrived already. 
We are facing each other all day long, yet we have never met.

Ektoplast’s Ether is a collage of experiences and memories – like a forest walk, a meeting, a dream, a futuristic painting, a psychotropic experience, an ethnomusicology course on Indonesian music, a Bach fugue, a song by Radiohead, or an amazing track discovered one summer morning during a festival. Experiences that shape our connection to our own emotions.

Music on the border. Let yourself float away in the ether.

Music and the desire to create constantly inhabits me. I conceive composition as a kind of lifelong quest whose ultimate goal is actually quite vague, although it sometimes seems to me to be a simple personal quest. In any case, it is this goal that constantly pushes me to move forward, whereas it is the path I find myself on that makes it its richness. Each track is then in reality only one step in this infinite process. Each step allows me to keep trying new ideas, and to let new perspectives appear on the horizon. I then like to take a step back, analyze this sinuous road and thinking about the creative process. So the composition does offer me both a ground for reflection and experimentation, but it also leaves me space for something more intuitive, which speaks directly to my affect.

I am a musician. I’ve always played in bands. The first time I wanted to do electronic music was in 2012 when I installed Ableton. That was the point when I stopped listening only to folk and rock music. As well as Peruvian music, cumbia, Argentine folk songs. I started to develop more knowledge about sound. When I installed Ableton Live, I was able to start creating textures and imagining soundscapes. It is contradictory, that with the rigidness of Ableton live you would be able to explore unstructured textures.

Then I started doing workshops and met a lot of people in Argentina using the ‘exquisite cadavers’ technique. A technique that allows you to work freely. I work on something and then pass it on to someone else, etc. It gives a different dimension to the work. Then we started making more music and contributing to a shy ‘downtempo scene’. The music we were making was introverted, and we stayed on that path.

Music is like an escape for me. It reflects some aspects for me. I think that the music I released last year were really compositions that I feel are meaningful (I felt good when I made them and listened to them afterwards).

Barda has a history. Because it’s not a random name. I grew up in Patagonia, near the Andes and Chile. It is a kind of desert; the landscape is not mountainous (some dune structures with fauna and flora). All these dunes were called bardas. I thought of a landscape, Bardas was the place where I spent my time as a child. It is the landscape where I saw my first colors.

A hypnotic prose emerges from the sluggish and deep beat; like a lotus flower coloring a pond with its presence.

An out of context charango lute and a pitched trumpet form a strange, but peaceful environment, as if the pond wore a mantle of fog to brighten the appearance of the flower.

Groovy acid sound – live recorded – by our very own Faul & Spaeth.
Rave, rave, rave…

My name is Sandrine, and I am living in Bern. The story behind Sun Drine is quite simple… Since I was a teenager I’m addicted to finding and collecting music from various different styles. Six years ago a very close friend of mine showed me how to mix tunes and I was immediately fascinated by the endless newly opened possibilities to create journeys through different moods. And well, the feeling when people are dancing to the music I have selected is just incredible!

After a little break, the chameloncast series is back with a special.
This one is a bit different than our typical four to the floor grooves. Sun Drine from Bern made a mix of: well, what exactly?

Somewhere between Ambient, Dub, Downtempo and some secret spices. A well planned trip into deconstruction of expectations and contemplative atmospheres. Glitchy percussion meets the warm and organic.
Genres stop mattering.