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1) What are your motivations for creating hard and attacking
complex electro-industrial music in the vein of the classical
FLA album "Caustic Grip"?
I just love this style since I found my way to EBM, cause
to me there´s no other music style that can express
coldness and aggressiveness so directly like EBM in the style
of "Caustic Grip" does, cause it sounds so artificial
and machine-made that the vocals on songs like "Resist"
literally visualize the fight in it. It simply bang!s and
splat!s in every corner.
That is what let EBM (in the original sense) differ from other
technoid music styles : It makes you feel that there is somebody
fighting ! I want to get respectlessness back into EBM, respectlessness
against all kinds of fashion movements and their style restrictions.
To me personally EBM is a kind of electronic punk, it´s
honest and uncensored underground music free from any restrictions
and has nothing to do with pop or anything. Thats why I love
it, thats why I´ll keep making it.
2) The artwork and lyrical content of "We Score"
are based on strong political/social/human aspects. Are you
into any political movement/party or do you want to attract
people´s attention to things you care about, instead
of being just a passive, blind consumer?
No, not at all, I´m not involved in any political movement
or party. Thats boring me too much. All I want to express
is resistance against all kinds of pop and the multimedia
brainwash that goes with it, including the inhibited minds
who create it and the zombies who consume it.
If I would found a political party, I´d call it "The
Common Sense - Party". All you need is a clear mind and
a little intelligence to see whats going wrong. Thats what
I miss on every existing political party.
For example "Shotgun Blast" is written in the ego-perspective
of any partisan or army fighter who finds his only sense of
life in fighting and killing for a piece of desert. This enormous
stupidity and ignorance on both war sides is shocking me always
again. "!Splat!" is the soundtrack for any ego-shooter
video game. This kind of extreme entertainment moves on the
thin border between fun and perversion, and so does the song.
But it also takes a look on those idiots and kids who cannot
handle it and start shooting people after playing.
"Crackhead" tells about a Crack-Junkie and his restless
hunt for still more crack, which is the only and last thought
in his rotting mind. But compared with the rest his rat-like
existance its just one big performance, one extreme kind of
life.
3) Do you believe in the concept of perfect man?
No, how could I ? How can we define what is perfect ? Our
brains are still in evolution, in 10.000 years, if we still
exist, we´ll possibly have a totally different idea
of perfection , an idea we cannot understand right now cause
of the lack of intelligence.
4) What are your life standards? Do you like technological
and psychological comfort?
I like every USEFUL new technology, and Im thrilled looking
forward whats coming next. But the pronounciation is on USEFUL.
Im studying economic engineering whith its main subject on
mechanical engeneering. So I get to know early many
kinds of new technologies, in entertainment as well as in
industry.
But I always buy only the absolutely necessary stuff, if I
can afford it. I hate nothing more than snobs who waste their
money and time for every fucking hightech gimmick.
5) What can cause your aggressiveness ?
Arrogance, ignorance, stupidity.
6) Does the energy and power of the music on "We Score"
have a constructive or destructive nature?
Both. "Destruct to construct !"
7) What reaction of the audience to the album "We Score"
will totally satisfy you?
When they feel the same like I do when I listen to it. When
they understand it an have their fun with it. When I see them
dancing their asses off !
8) What elements in PLASTIC ASSAULT´s music do you
consider as the most important ones ?
The complexity and coldness of sound, the punk feeling in
it. Being honest without any respect.
9) From where do you get adrenaline for your life?
fighting the dayly zombie attacks...keeping up the resistance
against ignorance and stupidity...leading the assault
10) Have you ever got into street fight or any similar dangerous
situations?
There can always be situations where you have to defend yourself,
the trick is to avoid them. Once a friend and I got attacked
by a gang of 4 guys in front of a supermarket. The biggest
one started pushing and finally beating up my friend
without any warning or reason. We´ve never seen them
before. When I saw that he couldn´t defend himself I
started attacking the gang. To me attcking was the only way
to fight them back, but at least I got an report for grievious
body harm, instead of the agressor, who was known to the police
as a criminal. That´s german justice!
11) Do you try to link any concrete image/attitude with band
PLASTIC ASSAULT? How would you describe PLASTIC ASSAULT to
people who never heard about you?
PLASTIC ASSAULT stands for resistance against ignorance and
stupidity. It´s respectless, honest EBM.
12) Are you involved into the so called "black"
scene? What do you think about gruffties, latex, sci-fi, club
parties.?
I dont like the term "black scene", because it
creates a kind of uniform, it sounds like everybody has to
wear black clothing to belong to it. I hate restrictions like
this, more and more during the last months, after I got refused
entry to several clubs cause I didnt wear black (!) but more
oi!-punk outfit. They said they want a homogen style in the
club...fuck´em! After this I tried to avoid black clothing
as often as I could, just for protest :) That may not represent
a usual behaviour, but its enough to hate the term "black
scene", cause it reminds me of these situations. Unfortunately
there´s no other common term for this scene, so that
I´m sometimes forced to make use of it.
Producing music is demands a lot of time, so there´s
not much space left for big scene activities, but I like going
to my favourite clubs on weekend or organizing private parties
somewhere.
I like latex and rubber in all colors, less on myself, but
more on beautyful girls ;)
Im also a big science-fiction fan, no other genre offers so
many freedom in fantasy...I like Star Wars (only the classic
ones !), Event Horizon, Alien, Blade Runner, Hellraiser, Dune...but
also movies like Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, Das Boot,
Eraserhead, Braindead aso, where I took the most samples from.
13) Do you like the current state of the electro-industrial
scene? What artists are a kind of idols for you (or very respected
ones)?
Lots of so-called EBM bands just produce bad dance techno
with wavy vocals on it, it just makes me sick. The music in
the electro-industrial scene has been much better 6 or 7 years
ago, not mentioned the time before. The only thing I like
is the development of the noise/industrial section. Bands
like PAL, Sonar, Winterkälte, Kiew, Imminent starvation
and others created a new kind of electronic hardness, their
music is a very modern way to kick ass!
People I respect much for their great work are Bill Leeb and
Rhys Fulber of Front Line Assembly, Cevin Key and Nivek Ohgr
of Skinny Puppy, Tommi Stumpff and Claus "Leatherstrip"
Larsen, they are milestones in EBM history and influenced
me much. Their music helped me through lots of difficult situations
in the past. Thank you guys !
14) What is the story behind the song "Devotchka"?
Did you have some special experience with russian girls? This
song is a sort of cynical, angry track.
No, I never had any special experiences with russian girls
(unfortunately not ;) !), its inspired by the movie Clockwork
Orange by Stanley Kubrick, where protagonist Alex and his
violent 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 and greedy, dirty sex, it audiolizes
total lack of sexual restraint on both sides.
15) What are the sources of the samples on "We Score"?
Most of them I took from the movies I listed up above, specially
Alien, Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver and several Pornos.
16) Do you think Bloodline is an ideal label for PLASTIC
ASSAULT ? Do you like the bands from this label?
Well, it´s like everywhere, some bands I like, some
I don´t.
The Bloodline management does a great job, they put in a lot
of engagement in promoting their bands, I´ve nothing
to complain about until now.
17) Could you name 5 things you hate?
Arrogance
Ignorance
Hypocrisy
Unreliability
hip-hop
18) Could you name 5 things which ease your life?
E-MU Samplers + Access Synthesizers
Opel GT
sexual fantasy
cold beer
Front Line Assembly
19) Well, the debut album is released. What's next?
At the moment I´m working on new song material and
parallel I´ve started preparing a live show. We´re
planning to release a single of "Shotgun Blast",
so there´s lot of work to do as well. The machines are
running !
20) Thanks a lot for interview. Your final words to our readers?
stay alive !
Valentine Laboda
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