Tastatur

Is that club music from Bern’s Daniel Wihler and Jakob Stoller? Absolutely—but Tastatur also wanders into experimental and ambient terrain. Their music resists tidy labels; it’s driven by a pioneering impulse to test, trace, and tweak sound. Active since 2007, what began as a live project has grown into a full-length album. On the club circuit, Wihler performs as Alphatronic and Mustfuzz, with releases on imprints including Inzec and Anthony Rother’s PSI49net. Stoller—better known at home and abroad as DJ Ramax—has likewise issued several records. Wihler’s ear for atmosphere meets Stoller’s playful dance-floor instincts; that tension powers Tastatur. Fragments of dub, disco, house, electro and breakbeats are deconstructed, recombined, and driven by propulsive bass lines. At times a dreamy haze lifts off; at others the music rattles, clatters, hums—and carries you through the night.

Bern, Switzerland