My parents did not really have what you could call a collection of recorded music, but thinking about it now – it was in fact alive all around us, and often we played a part in the making of this sound and music. Demonic air-raid sirens regularly tested to remind us of the constant threat of nuclear war.

Cows wearing bells, and men wearing these same bells. Moved to tears by soul-wrenching choirs, singing carefree rhymes about shoemakers and swans and the sombre singing and ringing of small bells in church. Time told by church bells every quarter hour, seasons announced by big brass bands and marching drums coming out for Carnival, with us banging pots and pans in the wintry streets at 4am. Unknown Artists – Unreleased (Past, Present, Future)Īs a child growing up in a village in the Swiss Alps in the 1980s, I mostly experienced music and sound as an essential part of life. He DJ’ around town as Saca La Mois DJ!! playing a mixed bag of ghettotech, tropical bass and cumbian rhythms, hosts the genre bending weekly radio show Space Is The Place on 106.7 PBS FM and regularly produces documentaries for ABC Radio National, his most recent referencing his Swiss roots, Recently he sat down for Cyclic Defrost and reflected upon some of the more influential music in his life. Their debut EP Delire Nostalgique is available here. Recently he collaborated with Christoph H Muller from the Gotan Project, for the Swiss Conspiracy, a project they describe as their attempt to find the hidden links between their Swiss roots, Latin America, the Caribbean, Australia and Africa. With releases on Melbourne label Scattermusic and the Berlin based Chusma records, their live show is an overwhelming audiovisual feast for the senses with silver spacesuits, live percussion and that rollicking cumbia rhythm. A producer with Cumbia Cosmonauts, he’ at the forefront of the worldwide digital cumbia explosion, taking traditional cumbia onto the dance floor with electronic treatments and rump shaking tropical bass.

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