bonaNza

Eberhard and JSX, aka Alexander J. Eberhard and Jorge Sánchez-Chiong, created bonaNza to introduce different club music influences into their electronic art music. Soon they dissociated themselves from the usual operation methods like abstraction and deconstruction of sources and gestures and the simplicity of art-scene-acceptable fare. They started to perform in clubs and worked on different aesthetics written off as "commercial", proceeding from where they might have had they not become art students and eventually music academics, adopting a parameter in their work that otherwise tends to be ignored in the art world: the functionality of club music, its dance-ability, its groove.