“In times marked by political division and a steady push toward the private sphere, lua jungck’s debut EP on -ous, «chase», stands as a reminder of something fundamentally collective: the dance floor as a space of shared experience, connection and expression. At its purest, it has always been a site of gathering, of (queer) visibility, and collective presence. In a time where fragmentation and exclusion are often reinforced, and cemented through algorithms, the dance floor offers something increasingly rare: a shared moment that can’t be replicated alone. A place where differences coexist in motion. As lua recalls: «I vividly remember my first nights immersed in Zurich’s club culture, my first raves, and I still treasure the feeling of freedom those nights left me with.» This feeling remains at the core of «chase». Not as nostalgia, but as an active force: a commitment to these spaces’ power to shape identity and enable a sense for the other.

Rooted in dubstep, bass music, and rave traditions, the EP is built on the tension between weight and openness. Heavy sub-bass and intricate, syncopated rhythms carve out a physical intensity, while expressive textures and tonal debris open moments of introspection. At the same time, elastic and at times majestic melodies bring lightness and euphoria to the productions. The interplay between half-time bass structures and more driving, electro-influenced patterns reflects this duality: grounded yet searching, intense yet open. There’s a deliberate focus on space in lua’s productions: space for sub frequencies and bold rhythms to hit with full force, but also space for people to exist within the music, to move through it together. This EP is shaped as much by technical precision as by memory, by those first encounters with club culture, where the music itself blurred into something bigger: a feeling of freedom. Ultimately, it’s an offering to the dance floor as a site of encounter, where community is not just imagined, but felt in real time”. (-OUS)

Porträt: Mik Matter