Your Name/pseudo : Gabor Andrae
Instruments in the band : Words+machines

1. If I say to you: gore, violence, pornography? Your reaction ?

gore : I´m thrilled. Torn back and forth between disgust and curiousitiy. But I have personal limits.

violence : Depends on what motivates it. In general, not concerning if it´s right or wrong, violence mostly has a very honest character. If you´re so far that you´re attacking somebody with all your agression (verbal or physically), you´re no more hiding anything. No more lies, no more hypocrisy, violence lets all masks fall.

pornography : To me it stands for loosing any kind of sexual restraint or limits, showing everything, including the deepest animal greed that´s turning a woman literally inside out, proves real freedom. I like taking samples from pornos, especially when greed looks real and they´re not syncronized.

2. Is there any message in the titles & the artwork of "We Score" or is it a pure piece of harshness & a way to unwind yourself ?

When I chose the terrorist pic for the cover as the first picture you see after opening it I liked the thought: you´re jogging through a forest some evening and come across such a society !! They stop talking, and then, all eyes focus on you. What would you do? Apologize ? Walk away ? Run away ?

3. Dead bodies, terrorists,? Do you think that your listeners can be scared by your imagery ?

No, I think nobody will be scared, I believe most people from the so-called "black scene" are used to more graphic cover artwork like :Wumpscut: uses, with the riot pics I just want to visualize the aggression in the tracks, from my point of view EBM is electronic punk and not another kind of dance music, that´s why I didnt want any senseless techno-styled cover. I like images with a unmistakable message.

4. Can you tell me more about "Leeb/Fulber" and the successfull album "Tactical neural Implant" ?

Bill Leeb´s and Rhys Fulber´s work is just the highest quality electronic music I´ve ever heard, produced at a standard I can only dream of. Still more than "Tactical Neural Implant" I like "Caustic Grip", because to me it seems still more agressive, more static, harder, faster. To me it´s one of the best EBM albums ever produced. But I can´t reduce Leeb´s and Fulber´s work to this album, the following are seperate, independent works and difficult to compare with each other. They always proved that they can turn to every possible direction. Today musical equipment is available for almost everybody, if you really want you can produce almost professional with a very low budget, compared to the circumstances 10 years ago. But as far as prices will ever fall, what you can never buy is genius. This is what let Front Line Assembly differ from everything.
Facing the big synthipop-invasion its urgently necessary to get the new FLA album released...it hopefully bombs everything away.

5. "Crackhead", "!Splat!" or "Shotgun Blast" seem to be well received by the electro fans. Did you ever hope to be played in club before the release of your debut album ?

No, I didnt expect so quick success. Sure, while producing you have thoughts like "how would this sound in a club?", but I was very unsure if my recordings would ever find an ear at bloodline, facing the omnipresent synthipop movement.
This went so far, that I spent almost half a year with re-recording and remixing "We Score" to make it all as perfect as it was possible to me, to send it to bloodline with a plain concience, knowing that I did the best I could, to eliminate at least "low recording quality" as a reason to refuse it.
But after I sent away my first (and only) demo I got an enthusiastic email from bloodline to sign immedately. From that on the whole thing stareted to accelerate, and now everything follows hot on each other´s heels.(DAC on 5th position now)

6. Some titles like "Devotchka" sound more classic industrial featuring powerful & driving guitars?

At that time I listened to a lot of Ministry and Nine Inch Nails stuff, a lot of Oi! and Punk Rock like The Exploited as well. That´s why I wanted guitars on that track, also to make it sound more violent. "Devotchka" is inspired by the movie Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick, where protagonist Alex and his gang use self-created terms for all kinds of things and actions, that it almost sounds like an own language. This terms are a mixture of russian, gaelic, german and know the hell where from words, so they use "devotchka" for "girl", which is meant in the sense of "bitch". The song is about domination(from man or woman) and any kind of greedy, dirty sex that lets the actors fall into an unstoppable animal excess by returning to their basic instincts.

7. Through your website, you link to several strange (or uncommon) pages. Are you fan of plot theories and governments manipulations ? Why ?

No, don´t be afraid, I´m not making bombs at home to assasinate people or buildings, but I like the respectlessness of the anarchyrules guys, because they´re posting some really nasty stuff !! I remember a file called "how to make the hell out of somebodys life" or so, starting with how to cancel his video card, credit card, insurance membership, continuing with how to deactivate somebody´s bank account, changing his phone number + email adress, sending him tons of sand poured in front of the house while he´s on vacation and fun like this, how to start all kinds of rumors about him, ending up in really hard stuff like sending him bombs and rioters until you scare him out of his own house. Very useful information :), I laughed my ass off when I read it. On the other hand, I know a lot of arrogant bastards who derserve a treatment like this !!!

8. What's your point of view on our social & cultural future ?

Looking back the last 100 years I have the feeling people very slowly understand. I hope it continues that way.
Ignorance will always cause problems, it´s the root of desaster. And there will always be ignorant and stupid people who are making trouble. I dont know how long it will take until everybody understands that kindness, honesty and respect are the keys for a better and more effective society. As long as somebody doesnt understand this, he needs to feel the consequences with full force.

9. If you've been a revolutionary or a terrorist (of good intentions :-)), what kind of assault would you made ?

I remember my mother calling me "a terrorist" when I turned up the volume too much...but thats everything...no bombing attacks on gouvernment buildings, no partisan activity, (almost)no street fighting or punch-ups with the police, I´m also not a member of any radical political party or movement, policy is just boring me....again, dont be afraid...I will only send you some pictures...no bombs :)

10. Your immediate plans for PLASTIC ASSAULT ?

Continue working on new songs, setting up a live show and getting Fasko closer involved, who worked on "Pesticide" and "80 F...en" together with me. (watch him mutilating himself on the start page, click on "Faskos Selbstverstümmelung" at www.plasticassault.com)

OLIVIER CAMUS

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