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translated from dutch by sum1 on the yahoo newsgroup:

Oor interview

human music is not unapproachable, not being correct pulse, but a
scrap in the throat, a light hasitation, a tear. We remind our
carefree youth, rather then that we dream of a life between robots.

We want to prove that we are ordinary blokes and no magician which
bring man sacrifices on a mount top

Mike: if you stay away from the media for a long time, people will
fill up automatically the breaches in your tale.

Mike : The biggest misunderstanding is our humor. A lot of people
don't see the irony of it. They take it to litteral. We are just
interessted (says almost with excusing there selfs) in old cultures
religious rattans, scientific questions, everything what deviates
from the standard. That's it!! don't seek anyting more about it.

Actualy we never wanted to make idm, in fact we aren't really
interested in dancemusic. We just took all kinds of instruments when
we were kids and made a lot of noise with it. We are no technokids.

About the campfire headphase:

the basis is a fantasy mind trip, sits itself somewhere in a camp in
the bunch, spaced out around the campfire. It is dark, you are
alone, you close your eyes and you fantasise concerning the america
of the 18th century. you lose you time notion. Hours become days,
weeks. There event strange solicits, unexplainable things, jumps in
the time, transformations, a little surrealistic without you
experience it as such.

Marcus: Complete chaos, a world without logic, that kind of idea. Do
you know the movie : Zabriskie point? For me this album is the same
environment, It is a lunatic movie. there happened of everything
what is not logical, you try discover a line, find a declaration,
but at the end of the movie you still don't know what now has in
fact happened.

Mike: The central question is: How much of these experiences are
real? have they really taken place? how much executed itself in a
hallucination? he who sometimes had a psyhedelic experience , knows
that you aren't able to tell litteral what has happened, it changes
every moment

At the end of a good trip = the campfire headphase, there will be a
downer, the last 3 tracks are going very deep. Marcus: as a result,
it continues longer (it will stay longer with you, (dont know how to
translate acurate)

Mike: I never could make anything that is complete optimistic.

Mike: Farewell fire is Marcus on keyboards, nothing more, he made it
in one night session.
They wont say for whom they made that track, though it could only be
for someone who past away .

The singing guitar in chromakey dreamcoat has been recorded on the
beach with the rottenest taperecorder marcus could find, he also has
digital recorders though he is using those seldom.

Never call their music nostalgic, Marcus hates it, also retro is
word he doesn't like.
Marcus : we referring to something from the past, something
tragically or something beautiful that has lost has gone. We try to
take that back, but we wont stop there, we try to bring it "further"
to imagine how it would become if it still existed. We don't copy
the past, we rewrite it. We go back to a certain moment in time and
place and take an alternative road. We say to each other : make it
1978 and then take it somewhere.

Mike admires jeroen bosch (1450-1516) a deeply religious painter,
in antagonism of contemporaries, the work of Bosch was about : fear,
abomination,calamity emergency. Mike: His work was about weird,
spooky elements, elements where no declarations for were it were
fantasy's, his work was surrealistic though surrealism didn't exist
at that time.
There are elements in his work that shouldn't be there,
inconsistencies. This elements make the work of bosch so strong and
seizing.

A parallel to music has the right to children, on what naieve child
voices clash with atonal sounds, chromocoloured beats and dissonant
melodies. Those voices from children don't belong there in such dark
music, they make you feel upset in away. You don't know why they are
there, but they just are around. They suggest innocence but also
danger. You just don't know but it just seize you.

Their life aim is the desire to their youth, the lost youth, the
time that life was still simple en luck was very ordinary. That's
what they are searching for, those warmth those innocence. The
feeling that every adolescent slowly looses.

Marcus: I have a long history of depressions, when im depressed I
always seek for consolation in my childhood. That sadness,
melancholy is always around In our music.

Marcus about geogaddi: It was a project, its its own thing, a
claustrophobic trip through a world full of paranoia and darkness. A
lot of people confuse this album with humanity, we are no
(cursethinkers……don't know of an accurate word, thinking about it)

Marcus continues: Don't forget that we were in the studio when 9/11
happened, the last 5 months of geogaddi were at the same time with
the aftermath of 9/11. It was a time of fear, feel liked we got back
to the cold war. Suddently I felt this fear again, the fear of the
nuclear bomb I had as a child. I think everyone of our generation
knows that feeling. We couldn't escape of that fear, it influenced
our conscience. The tone was getting more oppressed. The atmosphere
the samples everything has to do with it. Moreover I was having a
very difficult time for myself, it was a bad year

Now 4 years later:
Marcus takes over the conversation : The threat of 9/11 seems to be
permanent now, the world seems to be changed permanent, permanent
unsafe. More chaos en darkness and paranoia. When you experience
that day in day out, you will eventually ask yourself: How can we
escape from this? How can we forget reality?

Mike: Instead of going with this flow of psychosis, you can search
for an evasion. (Coincidence or not in this period mike listened a
lot to the first record of "the polyphonic spree") I thought I
wanted to make something hopeful, optimistic.

And so arised the idea for the campfire headphase : they would go
back to the time when there music was "simple" escapism, back to
twoism.

Twoism is probably our least political album we made. Its music to
dream with, even if your life isn't great and you hate your job,
when you listen to twoism and carry along with the melodies you will
forget your misery. We tried to create this again with TCH : an
airbubble where you can rise and fly away, away from everything.

TCH hasn't got a secret agenda, the only thing it is saying ; Fuck
all this stuff, turn of the news, get away from your shitty job, get
out of town and take some time to think back about your memories,
think about happier periods. Everyone has a great year in his mind,
the best summer of his life. That's our goal: We offer you a window
to the best summer in your life.

Marcus: see the album as an appliance, as a timemachine, a private
timemachine. Our music doesn't work in public spaces, she will speak
to one person at a time. Our music is music to listen alone, music
to crawl away, we offer you a safe place.
Mike: A place to go.

Mike: Music is for me an escape from gap, when im in a clothing
shop, I think very soon: fucking hell, I could possible strike
someone, I have to get as quick as I can get away from here, back to
my world of fantasy.

About orbital:

On all orbital records there was written: By hartnoll & hartnoll. We
didn't like that really, we wanted to go anonymous through life and
no stories about the musical family Sandison.

We have 2 brothers, they are also making music, one lives in
Australia and the other in London.

They have plans for soloprojects, they are negotiating about a
soundtrack of a big movie. They are already started a new BoC album.
They still have a contract for another 3 albums by Warp.

Mike: the next album will be for everyone a big shock, nobody is
expecting this from us.

There are even some plans for liveshows in spring, but this rumour
was 3 years earlier a fact

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They seem to get more and more personal with every review.
It's not a perfect translation, but certainly an interesting read...
Is there someone who can translate the HUMO interview? I'm not that good in English...

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"They are already started a new BoC album.
They still have a contract for another 3 albums by Warp.

Mike: the next album will be for everyone a big shock, nobody is
expecting this from us.

There are even some plans for liveshows in spring, but this rumour
was 3 years earlier a fact"

WOW i wonder what road there going down?
Tradlectro i think would be next lol
thats a good interview, they have bros workin on stuff too.
wonder what there music and stuff is like.

but also they did say right after geog that they had the next album finished, look what happend there.

thanks for the interview
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yeah, thanks ross, it broke me out of a sad loop :D

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thanks for the interview, it's very interesting

if i find the time i'll translate the humo one.

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so far, this has been the most interesting interview yet

the pitchfork was good, revealing that they are brothers, but shit, this one is pretty fucking awesome :)

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Yes, thanks for posting this very cool interview. That statement about their next album being a shock really makes you think about what they could be planning. Who knows, it could be quite far out there. My suggestion: Boards of Crunk, BoC do it Southern rap style. Just picture it, gold teeth, chains with iced out hexagon medallions, all kinds of Scottish beeaatches in their videos...or maybe not.

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zander two wrote:Yes, thanks for posting this very cool interview. That statement about their next album being a shock really makes you think about what they could be planning. Who knows, it could be quite far out there. My suggestion: Boards of Crunk, BoC do it Southern rap style. Just picture it, gold teeth, chains with iced out hexagon medallions, all kinds of Scottish beeaatches in their videos...or maybe not.


hahaha that crossed my mind, bling of canada

maybe vocals? maybe a beatless album? hmmm... and the major movie, wonder what it is

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zander two wrote:Yes, thanks for posting this very cool interview. That statement about their next album being a shock really makes you think about what they could be planning. Who knows, it could be quite far out there. My suggestion: Boards of Crunk, BoC do it Southern rap style. Just picture it, gold teeth, chains with iced out hexagon medallions, all kinds of Scottish beeaatches in their videos...or maybe not.

Rofl, hexagon medalions? Yeah, that'll be the day. :lol:

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one never knows..."yeah, that's right"...

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This interview was a very pleasant read!

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boardsofdublin wrote:"They are already started a new BoC album.
They still have a contract for another 3 albums by Warp.

Mike: the next album will be for everyone a big shock, nobody is
expecting this from us.

There are even some plans for liveshows in spring, but this rumour
was 3 years earlier a fact"

WOW i wonder what road there going down?
Tradlectro i think would be next lol
thats a good interview, they have bros workin on stuff too.
wonder what there music and stuff is like.

but also they did say right after geog that they had the next album finished, look what happend there.

thanks for the interview

This new album was shock for me to, i've expected something else, but that's life. :(

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It was really interesting to read this interview.
I wonder what that movie is :roll:

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scans...

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Fredd-E wrote:scans...


If you wan't to see the humo scans check out mine, atleast you can read them. :lol:

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D4VERD4NN wrote:
Fredd-E wrote:scans...


If you wan't to see the humo scans check out mine, atleast you can read them. :lol:

Well these are readable too.. just click on those thumbnail images to see the full version... :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

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Fredd-E wrote:
D4VERD4NN wrote:
Fredd-E wrote:Image
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scans...


If you wan't to see the humo scans check out mine, atleast you can read them. :lol:

Well these are readable too.. just click on those thumbnail images to see the full version... :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

Oops Sorry Mate. :wink:

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Top notch interview. Some interesting points esp the relation to the tail end of Geogaddi and 9/11. Also, it would appear like there are busy times ahead for the boys.
Im desperate for tour news!!!!!!! 8)

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That part about 9/11 is indeed very interesting. Things weren't going so swimingly for me that year either. The reasons they said they make music were just great! You can tell that's what they're shooting for! An escape from the dredges of this retarded life we all lead as adults. A harkening back to the inncence of childhood.

Quite a superb interview. Thanks for translating.

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Maybe I'll translate the full interview later on. But it'll take a long long time...

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