B-Side Guys

Sometimes the most potent dream pop emerges not from bedroom studios but from precise Swiss engineering. On “Not Tonight,” Basel’s Andrea Thoma—performing as Amoa—has assembled a team of sonic architects who understand that electronic music isn’t about escaping humanity, but about finding new ways to amplify it.

The track’s production, helmed by Roland Vollenweider, creates a delicate ecosystem where Jonathan Nagel’s machine work and Simon Boss’s guitar lines coexist like digital flora and fauna. Rather than fighting for dominance, these elements create something closer to supervised chaos—imagine watching snow fall in a wind tunnel, each flake’s path precisely unpredictable.

What’s particularly striking is how Thoma’s voice serves not as a guide through this electronic landscape, but as another element being tumbled and transformed by it. The vocal production treats her timbre like a vintage photograph being slowly dissolved in chemicals, letting the edges blur until memory and moment become indistinguishable.

“Not Tonight” suggests that Basel’s electronic scene has evolved beyond mere genres like trip-hop or dream pop. Instead, Amoa and company are creating temporal spaces—rooms where time moves sideways and every echo carries the weight of both past and future. It’s the sound of nostalgia being remixed in real-time.