| ragazzi: |
"You call yourselves a "Cybergoth-Project". What do you understand by CYBERGOTH? Why do you define yourselves as a PROJECT?" |
| Tech: |
"We are more gothic in a "Blade Runner" sense than we are gothic in an Anne Rice sense. We are more vinyl and latex than we are ruffled poet shirts. We create in several different mediums. We do our own photography, design, make fetishy art films, and all manner of other madness. We do and create more than we think the term "band" encompasses." |
| ragazzi: |
"In how far do you intend to provoke people with your appearance, show, lyrics etc.?" |
| Tech: |
"I don't know if we intend to provoke people any more than any other artist. We want to provoke an emotional response from the audience, but that's the whole point. Music is supposed to be fun and pleasurable. Sometimes it feels good to express dark things or vent hostility and aggression. We are not really interested in being controversial. We are only being ourselves and creating reflections of who we are and what we think and feel at certain instances." |
| ragazzi: |
"In how far is sex / erotic important for your music, performances and life?" |
| Tech: |
"I have found this very interesting about our coverage in the European press. They seem very quick to label us as one, finite thing. They see a sexy cover and us dressed in latex and immediately assume we are a 'fetish act'. MMTM is a fetish act in some senses, but that is only one aspect of who we are and what we do. Our sexuality is very important to us, but it doesn't define us entirely. That same sexy CD cover is also very violent and menacing. That same CD also has as many songs about social issues and personal relationships as there are songs about fetishy sex and S&M dynamics. I am not running from the fetish side of what we do in any way. I just find it amusing that the European press seems so quick to label and limit the identity of MMTM. We Americans are supposed to be the prudish ones!" |
| ragazzi: |
"What is your musical background?" |
| Tech: |
"Tasha and I were both in several bands together and separately since we were very young. We have both gone through many phases and genres. We are both from a heavy metal background." |
| ragazzi: |
"There are several remixes of MMTM songs. From your point of view what is the sense of remixes?" |
| Tech: |
"Industrial music tends to be a genre where most musicians work and create alone or in very small groups. This is a great environment for us that makes us very happy. But it is also refreshing to see your ideas reinterpreted by other artists. It has the benefits of working in a larger collaboration, without all the limitations. With the remixes on ELECTROLUST, we got to see our work interpreted by some of our biggest influences! KMFDM, Girls Under Glass, and Razed in Black. It was an incredible experience. As musicians, we have spent our lives trying to create the sound we hear in our minds. These remixes actually taught us to better achieve that goal." |
| ragazzi: |
"How do you create your songs?" |
| Tech: |
"That is a hard thing to be specific about. We do not often write the same way. Sometimes we create music first and then write lyrics for it. Other times it is exactly the opposite process. We both start ideas that the other develops. We both write vocals and music. It is a very fluid situation for us." |
| ragazzi: |
"What is your impression from the American Gothic scene?" |
| Tech: |
 "The scene here is well connected, even for such a geographically huge place. As we have toured here we have learned that everyone in different regions know each other. The goth scene is probably smaller and more underground than it is in Europe. There is no goth/industrial music on the radio or MTV. Wolfsheim is a mainstream success in Europe and entirely unknown here. Depeche Mode releases an LP and no one notices. So the goth scene here in the USA is well networked and operates independently, without any huge festivals or media coverage." |
| ragazzi: |
"When will you play in Germany? What will happen on stage?" |
| Tech: |
"We will hopefully perform in Europe late in 2003 or early in 2004. Black Flames Records is making arrangements now. The MMTM live show is very much like a multimedia art installation. It is very fetishy, but also political, comic, violent, creepy. But our live show is not the 'spanking bench and a strap-on' stage show associated with most 'fetish acts'." |
| ragazzi: |
"Apart from music what is important in your lives?" |
| Tech: |
"Not much….Is there live beside this???"
Stefan |
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