Éclat VA. Vol 3

Éclat Vol 3: spilt rubies in the flash frozen steam

Since 2018 Éclat Crew has been redefining the Berlin music industry as a collective of FLINTA* electronic music producers. Two years ago, the collective released its debut compilation, showcasing the talent within its vibrant community. Now, Éclat Crew proudly announces its third release – a dazzling and diverse collection of tracks that transcend genres, geographies, and aesthetics.

The title Éclat Vol 3: spilt rubies in the flash frozen steam embodies the essence of this dynamic collection of tracks. Éclat’s producers and DJs, who regularly grace lineups across Europe and beyond, bring their signature innovation and artistry to this release. Unsurprisingly, Éclat Vol 3: spilt rubies in the flash frozen steam is a rich source of sonic surprises and delights.

From the transcendent, healing ambiances of Joa Luna’s ‘Love Is Everything’ , to harmonies paired with bold percussions in Giugiu’s ‘O-EE’, alongside the hypnotic dancehall energy of Carmel Zoum’s ‘Demon Slayer’, this compilation vividly showcases the unparalleled range and creative depth of this renowned Berlin-based collective.

As with previous editions, the title and artwork for this volume have been designed by the multifaceted artist Judy Greta Moore aka Ignatz Höch + Hannah Mouse who also contributes her own Hi NRG goth track, ‘Three black trash bags, a silk neck tie and a few dozen bear traps’ adding yet another layer of intrigue to this extraordinary release.

*FLINTA* = Female Lesbian Intersex Nonbinary Trans & Agender

( ether o )

( ether o ) is an interdisciplinary artist who works conceptually with sound and music through varied medium including installation, performance, video, dj and music production. They explore sonic materiality and its relation to body and space, drawing particular focus on somatic, care and healing in listening.

IG // SC

A.N.Halter & The Other Within

A.N.Halter

A.N.Halter is a new audio artist from Berlin, Germany. Their experimental ambient sounds are saturated with queer imagination: digital, floaty, the radical mixed with softness.  A.N.Halter’s classical music background in singing and choir music shaped their fondness for complex layered soundscapes and storytelling like audio composition. 

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TheOtherWithin

Under the name TheOtherWithin, the non-binary musician and performer Jane Rieck produces genre-crossing and text-based songs with a distinctive melancholic touch. TheOtherWithin explores queerness, different qualities of relationships, and various concepts of love. Ranging from fragile polyphonic voices to steady aggressive shouts, intimate thoughts, feelings, and personal insights are shared within an electronic setup of sounds and heavy synths.

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Carmel Zoum

Based in Berlin, Carmel Zoum is a versatile dancehall artist—singer, beatmaker, and DJ—at the crossroads of cultures. Her Congolese roots blend with her diverse musical influences, creating a unique sonic identity that translates into electrifying performances and innovative productions. Beyond music, Carmel is also known for her advocacy for women’s rights and refugee support. Her DJ sets combine Techno, Psytrance, and DNB to create a captivating mix.

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Giugiu

As a child, giugiu‘s curiosity for sound led her to secretly cut her hair just to hear the scissors at work. Since then, she’s developed more resourceful ways to pursue her sonic adventures, exploring classical piano, jazz, and eventually electronic music production. Now based in Berlin, she balances warm, textured harmonies with bold drums, mixing playful blips, snappy claps, and chopped samples into her beats.

IG // SC // BC // Spotify

GubbiAnn

GubbiAnn (no pronouns), silver-haired gentlepunk and sound-bug, lives and creates in an eclectic and intentional dis/comfort zone composed of varied constellations and methods like noise, ambient, drone, improvisation, DIY oscillators, no-input, circuit bending, but also community tools and designs for living like collective collaboration, intersectional feminism and temporary autonomous zones.

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Ianni Luna

Ianni Luna makes dense music, with textures that intertwine and sparkly bits of noise. Her sound creations blend slow evolving patterns with sustained ambiences that carry an experimental tropical tint.

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Ignatz Höch + Hannah Mouse

Judy Greta Moore is a multifunctional artist and a busy little bee. She makes drawings and stories and teaches art. She’s exhibited at The National Portrait Gallery London, The Institute of Contemporary Art London, The Freud Museum London, The Museum of Communication Berlin, Whose Museum Malmo, among others. Her comics have been published with Hobart after Dark, Pink.Life, WEIRD and Moom. She was a Best of the Net finalist, nominated by The Offing. When she’s not drawing, she likes to make Hi NRG goth music, watch monster movies and eat candy.

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ionzi

Iona Evans (artist name ionzi) is a Welsh producer and multi instrumentalist based in Berlin. Her primary inspirations are from Ambient pioneers such as Aphex Twin, The Orb and LTJ Bukem  although her style is not defined by a single genre.

She is influenced heavily by atmospheric vocals and is constantly drawing sonic inspiration. She uses music to capture fragments in time, space and memory, aiming to evoke nostalgia and emotion in the listener. She views music as a transcendental journal.

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Joa Luna

Joa Luna creates patchworks of rich vibrating sound that interlace between avant-garde, ambient, electronica, broken beats and the unknown. Originally from Poland, she now occupies a unique space in the Berlin music scene and is actively involved with many projects and collectives including female:pressure, ECLAT Crew, Music Ashram, her current incarnation was nudged together by all these experiences and connections.

Connections are particularly important to Joa, the acceptance and embracing of the human experience inside nature guide every song. She is a daydreamer, a wandering creature. In order to express, transcend and understand the complexities of this modern life she constantly expands and tinkers with her toolbox of techniques and approaches.

What this manifests as is something that breathes air into the space around it, Joa moves with an electric sensuality, her body becoming as much a part of the performance as the music, one suspects even in the studio that this is the case and it carries into everything she does.

You want to move with Joa and join her in her ecstasy, an ecstasy that heals and imparts rarely granted freedom.

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Klaus Heidi

Klaus Heidi likes to entertain herself and her computer machinery with funny piano chords. Together they create music for fantasy elevators and supermarkets.

IG // SC // BC

Klementia (aka INVERNO)

Klementia is the Ambient, Experimental and Drone Music alias of the DJ/producer and radio host INVERNO. Klementia creates dark drone music, blending melancholic atmospheres with liminal soundscapes. Their work explores the edge of sound, evoking deep emotion through immersive, eerie textures.

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Lilmieux

Lilmieux is a Berlin-based singer, songwriter and producer creating dreamy beats with poetic lyrics, blending hope and melancholy. Her soundscapes zoom into the subtle movements, nuances, and contrasts of emotion. She twists and turns them in unexpected ways, transporting listeners to other realms. Her music feels like a comforting embrace, offering a bit of solace against loneliness.

IG // SC // Spotify// Apple

Love, Builder of Worlds

Love, Builder of Worlds is a multidisciplinary anti-binary agender artist belonging to the Olólúfè Collective, an artist collective with a focus on the most marginalized people. Love uses all and any pronouns as they found that “non-binary” did not encapsulate their resistance to colonial binary frameworks. Their work is informed and inspired by disabled people, people seeking asylum and gender non-conforming people of African descent. And with this, Love has found the foundation and lens for the intention to convey their music. Embodying the principle of anti-binary they move effortlessly through punk rock, neo-funk, disco, blues, afrobeats, alté, indie-electro pop and garage music demonstrating the breadth of their self-expression. The dynamism of their music compels one to movement and transports you to imagine the lived experience they are conveying through the sounds.

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Lun Ário

Lun Ário creates soundscapes using field recordings, oscillators or objects fed through Effects, resampled and fed back to the mix, creating multilayered textures that evolve slowly evoking narratives in the mind of the listener. Lun Ário is happiest playing live improvised electronic music.

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NaN

NaN journeys through the frequencies, fusing voices from the spiritual, political and physical realms that are present in their reality into one tapestry of sound. Moving fluidly between distant genres and eras, they weave unexpected connections between disparate musical fragments, creating new contexts and meanings in the spaces between. Their sets unfold like a stream of consciousness, where jazz might dissolve into ambient drones, folk harmonies could intertwine with electronic pulses, and spoken word might emerge from layers of environmental sounds. Through this intuitive approach to mixing, NaN reveals hidden dialogues between seemingly unrelated pieces, allowing the music to forge its own path through time and tradition.

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Spherical Aberration

Spherical Aberration, an innovative audio-visual venture crafted by Ioana Bîlea, goes beyond traditional artistic boundaries. Rooted in the enchanting landscapes of Transylvania and currently weaving its narrative between the dynamic scenes of Bucharest, Berlin and Copenhagen, this project is a fusion of real-time generative visuals and textural ambient sounds.

Ioana’s creative journey, inspired by the rich tapestry of nature’s sounds in lush forests, unfolds in a mesmerizing audio-visual odyssey. The ambient layers, dark drones, and haunting vocals, often extracted from recordings in unique natural settings, converge in a generative AV dialogue. Spherical Aberration invites you to transcend conventional artistic realms, inviting you into a captivating realm where music and visuals coalesce—a harmonious and immersive sensory experience.

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Voltracat

Voltracat takes countless steps on her sequencer in search of rhythms and beats. Using her beloved machines and synthesizers, she experiments with her voice and lets the inner unicorn gallop in different directions, on a journey through chaos to find the joyous spark that fuels the dance.

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voxblood

As voxblood, Lana makes moody, industrial-inspired tracks featuring her signature gritty vocals. She also writes, plays guitar, and sings in Cope Harder, an indie garage rock band, and organizes jam sessions for female, trans, and non-binary musicians as part of the GRRRL-NOISY collective. Lana lives and creates in Berlin.

IG // SC // BC

Working Memory

Working Memory has long been incubating beneath the surface, burrowing tunnels between reoccurring dreams and feeding on the detritus of our past.

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Yvois

Yvois is an Aotearoa (New Zealand)-born, Berlin-based producer of warm, wonky beats and singer of moody aural treats. Armed with a collection of dusty guitar pedals, warbling tape machines and a smattering of found sounds, she creates chill electronica and low key grooves in her treetop home studio.

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