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I'm gonna play some stuff from my new album
The writings on the walls here are crazy
"Romanians only"
"Death to gypsies"
"Natural Born Killer"
a swastika...
The "punks" made this back in the days...
and some dude wrote on the whole street
"Long Live The King And The Country"
"*** Dinamo" (local football team)...
"and Basescu too" (the president)...
...plus Gigi aswell " written all in one sentence
The music i create is ultimately the sum of all the stuff i listen to
i listen to.. i don't know
i listen to electronic music
i listen to metal music
i listen to everything i come across
I don't separate them at all
i really don't want to start that classic drama
with the separation of genres and all that
because it is ok that some sort of categorisation exists
but i don't really care much about that
usually i just trade music with various people
i always check new releases
i listen to ...
since i first started doing music more seriously
i don't know like...
two years ago maybe
i keep getting music
but i just don't have enough time
there is just too much music out there
there are like 100 labels...
100 music genres...
and 100.000 artists...
and ...
there just isn't enough time
but i would really like to have more time on my hands to listen more music
Do you ever think at what people listen to nowadays
Do you ever find yourself wanting to keep your music up to date
Not really...
but more like i don't ignore what's currently in fashion
i just try to stay away from ugly things and to remain somwwhat...
true to what i like
i mean i really don't try to sell out or something like that
probably at one time if i do sell out
we will both watch this interview
and we'll laugh really hard
it would be really funny
i don't have plans
but at the same time i really can't give you an exact answer
because i didn't get where i would like to so far
and i don't actually know where the limit is
where this whole music thing ends ebventually
and there are a lot of things that i just don't know
i guess i have to keep working
and anyway you really have to build this whole thing
at least for me it is like that
maybe there are artists that right from their debut records
are getting interest from media and other labels
i haven't done a record like that yet or maybe it just wasn't mean to be
or i don't know...
You recently started having gigs outside Romania aswell
From Dristor to Belgium, Lituania with your music...
I never expected any of this
and it all happened pretty fast
i mean...
Error Broadcast, the label that released my first EP
did a really good job with promotion
it really helped a lot
This whole thing is getting bigger
but there aren't any money to be made from selling records
only from gigs and such maybe
What do you mean by money
I don't know
well i think i can afford not having a job
but on a second thought i'd really like a steady job
but...
it's harder to find a job here
and i don't think i could keep a job now
because making music is all that i have in mind at the moment
but for now i think i have enough to be decent
A new Montgomery Clunk EP is coming february or march via Error Broadcast
With two "OK" remixes
There will be a video aswell
but nothing too fancy
it will be made by this dude that made some nice stuff so far
and also some new Contorsionist material
which will be released by Asiluum
i hope...
i really don't know about the Contorsionist project
i have some plans
some ideas and concepts
but it's moving a bit slow because i want it to be just like i imagine it
and at the right time
it's a things that grows with me
it's some sort of a journal
but it will be released as a free download, just like all the others
With FJORD we're going to do like we did with the first EP meaning...
something very...
It's very hard even for us to explain what we exactly do, musically speaking
because it's something that comes naturally
we don't have a recipe for this
we want the music to represent what's happening at that specific time
there will surely be a new FJORD release in 2012
We've recently sent promo kits to some labels
so far we haven't found a suitable home for FJORD
we released our first album through the danish label Farver
but it somehow remained hidden...
just a link on a website, that's what hapenned
What do your friends from the neighbourhood think about your music?
I'm not really a special character among my friends
I mean they listened to my music
some liked it but it is not something huge for them
and i enjoy it the way it is and i am somehow grateful that our friendship remained the same since we were kids
and i'll probably keep hanging out with them until i'll move from this place
i don't get any special treatments for being a musician around here
but at the same time they don't make fun of me neither for having to go finish a song or something like that
it's a cool thing
i feel good haning out with them
Eveywhere i went people making music had nice gear
and they had lots of cd's and vinyls
they buy more music in Europe than they do here in Romania
i met people with really interesting music gear while touring
i played with hardware that otherwise didn't had any chance of testing here
but being a gearslut was never my plan
because i always knew that it would be hard for me to buy all that stuff
so instead i got used to using software a lot
and i think i can do a lot by using software only but i guess i'd like to have some hardware
Here in the Eastern Europe the audience is pretty much the same
for example in the Czech Republic people were more interested in live acts
than Djs
this for example is different here in Romania
but all the other aspects are basically the same
Well they have more events in Prague and much more variated
But what about the audience, is it any different from Romania?
Are they more interested or opened to new things?
Maybe... they come earlier to shows
but they leave sooner aswell
Here, everyone is obssesed more with the afterparty
and they always miss the acts performing earlier
There are people that are sincerely interested in music here aswell
and also people that come at shows and stay from the beggining till the end but far fewer unfortunetaly
But at gigs in other countries i saw more people that came earlier to shows to see all the artists perform
In Hungary for example everyone left really early like 3 in the morning
and they came at about 11 o'clock
These are visible differences, subtleties if you want
...Kids that seemed genuinely interested in music
at ages smaller than what you would normally found here
they were younger
maybe they were there just to get high or whatever
but they didn't like to show off or something
it was more like a ritual thing
but they did listened to music aswell, that's for sure
here people just like to walk from a club to another
we are a little bit behind with everything but i don't know if i am the one to say it
Last time i've been in Belgium at this dubstep gig
where the medium age was about 17
i played at the experimental stage
somewhere at the first floor
and just because it was called the experimental stage it got a bit stigmatised
there were like 4 people in the front
Who is SUPERBUS?
There's this guy that has "SUPERBUS" tattooed on his arm
but it's not written like in a single word
it has a small space between SUPER and BUS
it worked for him...
and it's like..DRISTOR SUPERBUS
i dont know, they fit together
When did you started making music?
When they released Fruity Loops 3
in the beggining it was fun, i played a bit with it
but i was only trying
to imitate stuff i heard and liked
i used to get an obsession on certain pieces and just made like 30 seconds loops
- How's the music thing going on dude?
- It goes pretty well...
- Yea?
- There's always room for better
- Are you still like underground or?
- No no, i'm underground
- You know when going mainstream, you lose all your innovative spirit...
- When you are commercial, everything gets lost
- Are you filming me now?
- If you guys are uploading this to youtube...
- I'm gonna run you over with my car.