But I must say that everything was really great what came from WAX TRAX and that I never find anything that was even with average quality of music or idea.


Exactly. WAX TRAX had specific taste and whatever they would sign for the label was good and was making sense. It was like in old days when labels were known for quality.


Like at the end of 70's and the beginning of 80's with post punk/new wave. Whatever would get out would be so good and amazing. If you didn't know the band when you would buy a record you would look for the label and year and there wouldn't be way that you make a mistake buying it.

Very true! 4AD, Beggars Banquet, ...

It's really interesting that you couldn't get better response in Europe. It's true that European sound those days was almost 100% pro-Belgium which means pure electronic sound with no guitars while you were doing something called "crossover". At the same time Young Gods were doing the same exact thing as you were but they got so huge and popular. Why was it that way? I do not understand...

Because they have been really revolutionary and the stuff they did blew everyone's head off. They were so technologically advanced and we were doing naive stuff comparing to them and that's the main reason they had much more respond and success than we did. We only get serious about making music when we got to the USA. All stuff before that was a total fun. MONEY was the first serious album KMFDM did even it was recorded in Hamburg.

Yeah, it was huge difference in sound and style. I can say it was revolutionary for whole scene. After that came ANGST album and whole bunch of bands changed, even some huge names, such as Die Krupps, Front Line Assembly, ...

I remember that. "Money" was totally done and affected by American style.

But now when we hear KMFDM it sounds a million years ahead with quality in sound, production and musically of course. Tell me how the development of technology affects on your work. For instance, I was shocked when I saw that KRAFTWERK did the new album totally using software not machines. What do you think about it in general?