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What is the purpose of electronic music?
Dance to the radio - communicate in a faster
and straighter way - make people feel some really elementary, fundamental
feelings - finding, searching, exploring. Easy, huh?!?
Do you think that this genre has any
artistic value, or is it just pop?
If you look back to the twentieth century avant-garde,
artists were those who wanted to communicate to many other men in
many ways, bringing and building new cultural scopes. And, though
we don't feel part of an artistic movement - we simply do it because
we like it, and we don't ask for more - you could think to both
electro AND pop as forms of art. It's quite hard to agree, but yes
we think you could: who can anyway assess the artistic content of
whatever?
Should synth-pop be redefined or upgraded,
changed? Into what kind of music?
We don't especially like synth-pop, but we love
both synths and pop. There are many synth-pop bands we love, many
we dislike, but we're not much into it. We've seen it changing so
many times these years, and it was always thanks to some unknown
but really innovative bands, which marked the new guidelines of
the genre. It will surely change soon, lightly or deeply, but we
can't predict how it will be. As always, machines will rule the
scene, and we'll be there to listen, and play.
"Overhead" single has an artwork
of a (blood-red) ear and "Artificial Breathing" album
is all blurry and dreamy. What do those images represent?
When you have an album or a single to be released,
you always have the very important task to explain your music to
those who have never heard it, to get noticed, and to choose the
right title and artwork that represent you and what you put inside
your music. In this particular case, this was our debut single,
and our debut album, so we had maybe too many things that we wanted
to communicate: some kind of urgency – you know, the fashion
of the newcomer – the energy and the beats, the electronic
theme, the romantic
lyrics… and the will to get noticed as artists with a personal
style Anyways, you have to consider our music, our titles and our
artwork at the same time to get the whole picture. The ear in the
single is probably the expected, nervous feeling of the debutant:
"this is something you should listen to, hear this". The
album had
to transmit more of an atmosphere instead, and the blurred image
served that purpose. You should close your eyes and take a deep
breath while "Event Horizon" starts. In preparation. After
just a little while, the beats should get you automatically on the
dancefloor, but there are songs in there that you can also listen
to at home. It's some kind of "intimate dancefloor smasher".
What kind of machine keeps you breathing?
:)
Let me tell you this: the other day I was
moving some of my stuff from my parent’s house to my new bought
house, and when I got in my old room, I found out that the shelf
that was keeping my speakers had collapsed to the ground, the speakers
hanging from cables, a few centimeters from my synths.
My breath stopped for an awful while!
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