

Cameron Gaut, aka “Modcam”, hails from Portland, OR, a city known as being a part of the “silicon forest“, the home of Intel microprocessors. Born in 1985, he grew up in a tech-savvy home during the early days of the Internet: when music from around the world became instantly accessible to anybody with a computer modem and a dial-up connection. The internet helped introduce Cameron to a diverse range of musical influences, which he has incorporated into his music today. From the blues and jazz, to psychedelic trance, dub, and chill-out sounds of Shpongle and Ott, to the ineffable beauty of Indian classical music, Cameron’s musical influences have known no bounds.
Growing up with a father whose one condition of helping him buy an electronic drum kit was that he played blues music, he learned to appreciate raw simplicity and humanity in music. After moving off to college, his first electronic music creations were a byproduct of his new dorm life: living in a small shared room with nothing but a laptop and a cheap midi keyboard. After years of producing, DJing in chill-out rooms, experimenting with psychedelics, and recording friends, his time as a college kid was over. His college graduation ceremony included the dean of Philosophy announcing Cameron’s post-graduate goal: producing his first full-length electronic music album. Within the next 9 months, he completed his first album: Six Minute City. The album was created with the idea that beneath the wires is a connection to the earth, that there is a parallel relationship between the digital and the analog worlds — the organic and the synthetic intertwining to make something greater.
Over the next decade, Cameron gave up on producing much new music. He realized that he didn’t want to be the bedroom producer who could program a synthesizer and create music by clicking a mouse, but who couldn’t perform live on a real physical instrument like guitar or flute. So, he began to study flute to embark on a journey that has spanned over 15 years. Today, Cameron is not only skilled electronic music producer, he’s also a fluent and adept study in raga music on his bansuri flute: a mellifluous bamboo instrument originating from the Indian subcontinent; Its purity of tone and intoxicating melodies inducing trance states, shifting one into the parasympathetic nervous system and inspiring vivid visions in the imagination.
Beginning in spring 2021, Cameron was inspired to join an online music production course from Ben Last, aka Temple Step — on the psychoacoustics of sound. It was there when he was introduced to the music of Tashka Urban. Her chakra-themed “Red Album” had inspired him with its unique ethereal vocals and wide palette of sounds and effects. He reached out about collaborating and she sent him a stem pack for the album. Track by track, Cameron remixed all but one track. Then both he and Tashka took a long hiatus from the project, until summer 2022 when Cameron was inspired to finish the project at last.