Ambient and downtempo music provide a decelerating and unique function, creating moments of stillness in our ever-moving world. This magic has touched the heart of Zurich-based electronic music artist ECLEKTIC.
A special path has led Dani Stucki to this style, which allows him to unite his deep passion for music and his love for nature. A balanced interaction - a symbiosis of self-recorded natural sounds, slowly evolving synth pads and electronic beats - is therefore the essence of his productions.
Dani was a nature and music enthusiast from the start. At the age of 7 he learned to play the guitar and later completed classical music education – always spending his free time in the forest and in the mountains. Fascinated by electronic music, he constantly followed its development, and in the late 90's he started producing and DJing Progressive-Trance music.
Besides up-tempo music, he found peace and tranquility in chillout and ambient sounds in all their facets, making him sink into listening sessions for countless hours. This is how Dani came to experiment with drones, break drums and his own field recordings. What came out was - rather unexpectedly - downtempo and ambient music. "It's like impressions flowing into me and coming out as music, deep from my heart."
This transformation process was the birth of his current project, ECLEKTIC. He released his first EP 'Sky Holder' featured by XLR8R, worked with different labels, and then joined the Iboga Records (Sofa Beats) family, where the studio album 'Form of Elation' (2019) and the follow-up 'stories of wide' (2020) were released.
In addition to producing, ECLEKTIC enjoys performing live, taking listeners on an unfolding ambient journey. He’s been featured at BOOM Festival, Burning Mountain Festival, Psy Nation, Street Parade, SUN Festival, 7 Vibes Journey, Hive Club and on radio stations such as Ozora and Unite to name a few.
So keep your ears open for ECLEKTIC's future releases and live performances, and get ready for a transformative and intense musical eclecticism of organic soundscapes and captivating rhythms.