Belgian Electronic Music Producer & DJ, Herman Klapholz, better known as Ah Cama-Sotz
Ah Cama-Sotz\xa0 is the\xa0 industrial-techno/ritual-tribal/dark ambient project by Belgian electronic music producer and DJ, Herman Klapholz.
His passion for classical music and his love for dance music has prominently formed his foundation of his present musicality. He began DJing in clubs and local pirate radio stations where he noticed the incessant evolution and metamorphosis of \u201d dance \u201d and experimental music. Yet, he didn\u2019t want to remain a passive onlooker and aspired to formulate his individual sound, by mean of acquiring synths and samplers. His objective was to combine his musical passion and esoteric ideology which resulted in an obscure and macabre but rhythmic and atmospherically sound.
This project required an appropriate moniker, which could integrate and mirror all those constituents. When wandering in Mexico he uncovered a local mythology and found his alter ego: \u201d Ah Cama-Sotz \u201c, named after a giant bat which used extremely elongated sharp claws to decapitate his victims. In the mid-eighties he recorded his first tracks, which were given airplay on a controversial Antwerp local radio station, \u201d radio centraal \u201c, 106.7 FM. While on the air he attracted the attention of an electronic/ritual band called \u201d Hybryds \u201d which resulted into a ritual-ambient project/recording for the Antwerp zoo: \u201d Soundtrack voor het aquarium \u201d (project by hybryds and vidna obmana).\xa0
During his career Ah Cama-Sotz has carved a niche for himself as one of the darkest industrial acts around. His music is steeped in a multitude of mythology, occultism and bloody history, which lend a context and significance to the individual works that is noticeably absent from a lot of contemporary industrial / noise music. The past 28 years, from 1993 to current have seen the Ah Cama-Sotz sound progress from cold, minimalist electronics through to dark ambient soundscapes and pounding techno floor-fillers. \xa0His highly received masterpiece, \xa0 Your Darkest Soul (The Way to Heresy) \xa0was released on October 3, 2005. \xa0His latest album since this interview is called New Skin for Old Tribals, 2020.
https://ahcama-sotz.com
https://ahcama-sotz.bandcamp.com/
https://www.discogs.com/label/14750-Bats-Cats