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A slow, hypnotic acid techno track at 125 BPM, built on a field recording from a rainy night in the hills above the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal.
In late August 2025 he travelled to Nepal to make field recordings, and Nagarkot, the hill station that gives the track its name, was the first stop. After he had visited Ama Yangri, a sacred peak in the Helambu region, the end-of-monsoon rain seemed to wash the road away. The guide and the driver decided it wasn’t safe to go on, and they stopped for the night at a mountain resort at Jarsing Pauwa, a few kilometres from Nagarkot.
Late that night the rain eased. He brought out his microphones and recorded the humid dark: crickets and insects, and water in the distance. That recording became the start of the track. A classic 303 bassline repeats as he slowly opens the filter and resonance, the drums drop out and return, and in two breakdowns the night in Nepal comes to the front.
“It was a hypnotic experience, just being present in that soundscape. It reminds me how important it is to be present and to listen. That’s a lot of what I do with my field recordings, and with this track I’m bringing it to the dance floor.”
Made for the early hours of a club night, it came out on 6 November 2026 on iDJa Recordings.
Composition iDJa
Production iDJa
Field recordings iDJa, Nepal, August 2025
Cover photo iDJa
AI use none
The trip Supported by Nordland County Council
Acid Luohti began around four in the morning on Berghain’s dance floor in the spring of 2026, where he was dancing with his friend Ole-Henrik Lifjell. As a techno track was mixed in, he caught himself humming and quietly joiking a melody over the music.
The melody followed him home, met a squelching 303 bassline and became a techno track at 142 BPM. Luohti is the North Sámi word for joik, and bringing joik into acid and techno questions what Sámi music can sound like.
“For me, the dance floor is somewhere where you come together and become part of something larger than yourself. It’s all about love and feeling connected to your surroundings.”
The track still takes him straight back to the night that gave him the melody: places, people and moments get stored inside a track, waiting to return when it plays again. The release has the original and an instrumental that puts more weight on the 303 bassline. It came out on 2 October 2026 on iDJa Recordings.
Composition iDJa
Production iDJa
Joik iDJa
Mix and master Jeff Sojka
Cover photo Dan Mariner
AI use none
A melodic disco track built from field recordings, a melody caught on a phone and a weekend alone in the mountains. Duottar is the North Sámi word for the high country above the treeline.
He spent the weekend alone on Saltfjellet in Nordland, hiking and recording, after a week of planning and new microphones. It was unusually warm, 25 to 30 degrees even at night. “Thirty kilos on your back makes it a hard trip. But when you are alone in the middle of the mountain and all you can hear is the wind and a brook in the distance, it is worth it.”
Saltfjellet lies where Norway meets Sweden, with sacred Sámi sites across it, and communities from both sides have met there in summer to work with the reindeer. “Alone up there I could almost feel the presence of my ancestors.”
There are two versions. The original is longer and opens with the nature recordings before the beat comes in. The radio edit is shorter and more direct, and its intro is built on sampled duodji, Sámi handicraft, used as percussion. It came out on 14 August 2026 on iDJa Recordings.
Photos from SaltfjelletWatch the filmA voice memo from SálltoduottarWhat “partly AI” meant
Production iDJa
Field recordings iDJa, Saltfjellet/Sálltoduottar
Drums Programmed manually by iDJa
Vocals AI-generated vocal fragments, chopped, processed and rearranged by iDJa
Mix and master Gabe Lehner
Cover photo Dan Mariner
AI use Generated sound elements (vocal fragments, acid bassline and some synth layers), developed through an iterative process and selected, edited and arranged by iDJa. Track structure and all creative decisions are iDJa's own. Field recordings and drum programming contain no AI
A dark, minor-key deep house track at 125 BPM. It rests on a simple contrast: the feeling that something is slipping away, and the refusal to accept that it is fully lost.
The vocal is sparse. In the opening, “I can feel it slipping away” appears as a clear signal, and at the end it returns with a quieter answer: “not gone”. The feeling of growing up Sámi where the language isn’t part of everyday life is turned into deep house.
“The phrase ‘I can feel it slipping away’ became connected to language for me. When you grow up Sámi in a place where you do not hear the language every day, it can feel distant. But it is not gone.”
The release has “Not Gone” and “Not Gone (Instrumental)”, and came out on 19 June 2026 on iDJa Recordings.
Composition iDJa
Lyrics iDJa
Production iDJa
Mix and master Jeff Sojka
Cover photo Tina Dubrovsky
Vocals AI-generated voice performing lyrics and melody written by iDJa
AI use AI-generated vocal performance. No AI in composition, lyrics or production. The instrumental version contains no AI
Composition iDJa
Production iDJa
Mix and master Jeff Sojka
AI use none
Composition iDJa
Lyrics iDJa
Production iDJa
Mix and master Juan Felipe Ramirez
Vocals AI-generated voice performing lyrics and melody written by iDJa
AI use AI-generated vocal performance. No AI in composition, lyrics or production. The extended version uses the same vocal source
Composition iDJa
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & Sárá Nilut
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa
Production iDJa
Field recordings iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & Ramona Linnea
Production iDJa
AI use none
Original track by iDJa
Remix by TØNDRA
AI use none
Original track by Sweet Tempest
Remix by iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa, DJ Oabbá & Arne Ivar Johnsen
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & Arne Ivar Johnsen
Lyrics Arne Ivar Johnsen
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & Sunna Utsi
Lyrics Sunna Utsi
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & Inna Marja Amundsen
Lyrics Ellisiv Olsen & Arne Ivar Johnsen
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & Ellisiv
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa, ÅVLA & Ramona Linnea
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa, ÅVLA & Ramona Linnea
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & ÅVLA
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & ÅVLA
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & ÅVLA
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & ÅVLA
Production iDJa
AI use none
Composition iDJa & ÅVLA
Production iDJa
AI use none
Electronic music has always evolved with technology. I believe artists should be open about how new tools shape their work. On this site, every release includes a short note on whether and how AI was used, with links to more detailed production notes where relevant.
My principle is simple: AI can support the creative process, but it should never replace the human craft behind the music.