DEAD DROP - DUBOK

Their music is not just a blend – taking parts and pieces from different genres and constructing songs. It has it’s own something. Could be played everywhere, but it’s not for everybody. I have my own feeling about it: listening to Dubok somehow associates me with clubs - the atmosphere, the vibe, sex and alcohol. Autopsychoanalysis aside, the first question logically was:

Design a club you'd enjoybeing in: people, ambience, music.

Ian// There'd be no rap music, no drugs, just alcohol and great music. I’d keep it minimal, less flash and more substance with a heavy injection of live music. And you could smoke for fuck sakes! And the bathrooms would work. God I hate rap music!
Heil// Intelligent music, lighting, Berliner Kindl, Erdinger and Kölsch are the only beers served. Lucky Strikes on every table, and most important, yellow bodies wall-to-wall. It’d be on an island isolated from the rest of the world.
Elias// Yeah, at this point I’d settle for a clean place with a good stage and PA system. Working bathrooms would be a definite bonus.

DJ Copper Top starts her sets/Vinyl Conflict album with your 'High in Columbia'. How would you start your set?

Ian// When I DJ-ed it was always nice to begin the night with ‘Sound and Vision’ by David Bowie. Nobody was there that early so I would inject my influence and favorites early and then build up the night from there.
Heil// I start my sets with FSOL or Dimitri.
Elias// Good question…. Probably wouldn’t be a lot of people around, so I’d have to play some Interpol, or maybe ‘Moya’ by Godspeed You Black Emperor. Then bring in the electronics.

Your favourite musical period? 80-ies?

Elias// Yeah, I’m gonna have to go for the 80-ies here. More than anything because that was the time I was growing up. That music had the greatest influence over me as a child… whether it was 80’s
punk, or good synth pop…it really left a mark.
Also… that was just such a great era for the synthesizer in general. It really was all over the place.
Heil// The days of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Johann Sebastian Bach – The Fugue and the blues...
Ian// Probably the 70-ies. So much experimenting and exploration, new applications of instruments, and of course drug induced lyrics and music. Although I don't do drugs, I find the most originality from that era.


What is your favourite historical era?

Heil// Without writing a book about it, I will just say this: anything B.C.
Ian// Pretty much any point in time where there has been plagues and maladies that have afflicted mankind. (Such as the black plague, the flu that wiped out so many people during World War I ). It’s a
nice, decent way to thin the herd. (interview continues on next page)