PROJECT JEWEL

Yeah two further great interviews!!

Great. I had fun reading those interviews.

Now i'm glad that I know a lot more about you guys XD

Nice Interviews Guys...i like your favourite drug @nitro it's one of the best... AugZF you have cat? which color (...and no, i'm not a cat-color-racist )

Is that your Pic for the booklet Aug?

+ is that experimental window chilling cat yours??? Very cool way to hang around

my cat, i may include her in the booklet, not bad idea!!

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INTERVIEW WITH FAKTOR4

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Could you explain how the music in your early years effected you and the music that you produce since years and today?

Since i could remember i was interested in electronic sounds.... at the beginn with 3 years, i listen the strange sounds from the MW or LW rates on the radio of grandpa. Later, at the beginn of the 70's, it was the time of the first sythesizers, i listen Wendy Carlos, Velvet Underground and lot Pink Floyd.1975 i listen the first Kraftwerk tracks and i was very excited about their music. In the late 70's i listen Tangerine Dream, Jean Michel Jarre, Can, Klaus Schulze, Blondie, Gary Newman, Suicide, punk music like Sex Pistols, The Clash, Jam, Joy Division.... 1980 beginns the "Neue Deutsche Welle" with a lot interesting stuff like Deutsch Amerikanische Freudschaft, Liasions Dangereuses, Palais Schaumburg, Krupps, Einstürzende Neubauten and many others. In this time i also listen Human League, Ultravox, Depeche Mode, Art of Noise, Yello, OMD, but also rap music like Grandmaster Flash or Sugarhill Gang. Later 1984 i listen bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Virgin Prunes, Tuxedomoon, The Cure, 23 Skidoo, Bauhaus, Alien Sex Fiend, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Test Department, Dead Can Dance, Foetus, Big Black, Christian Dead, The The, Front 242, Legendary Pink Dots, Laurie Anderson... In the late 80's was my first contact with house - spring 1991 i listen the first techno tunes. I make music since 1988, 1997 i start my own electronic orientated musicproject FAKTOR4.

What kind of music are you listening to?

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Where do you find the inspiration for your music?

Life

How old are you?

45

What´s your favourite drug?

Weed

What´s your favourite videogame?

GTA, Bioshock, arcade classics like Pacman, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders...

What´s your favourite musican at the moment?

Lusine Icl, Milieu

What equipment do you use for your music?

I use software for my newer stuff - only Apples GarageBand and NI Reaktor.

What kind of hobbies or interests do you have outside of music?

My daugther, my wife

What do you do on weekends? Do you do a lot of clubbing or do you like to stay at home?

I prefere to stay at home, sometimes, not so often I go to festivals or clubbings.

What are your all time top five albums?

Autechre - Chiastic Slide
Mum - Yesterday Was Dramatic - Today Is Ok
Autechre - Amber
Mouse On Mars - Instrumentals
Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume 2

Is there any singer you would really like to work with?

No

Did you ever played live?

Yes, 2 times 1997 & 98 as live event by music festival in Austria

Could you please describe your genres in the exact order from your musical beginning till now?

No, sounds every time like FAKTOR4 ;)

Very interesting interview. Also, nice cat Augz :]

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INTERVIEW WITH AMZ

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Could you explain how the music in your early years effected you and the music that you produce since years and today?

At my very early years of my life expierence...i used to listen to strange, distorted, piep-type kind of sounds from the LW and MW, that were from out of range of any radiostation, on the radio of my dad. I recorded them and kept listening to them, after the moment i got my first gameboy i recorded parts of the music from Super Mario Land or other games between the parts of the radiowavesounds. Sometimes when the audiotape got caught in the cassette deck, i tried to fix it, but it was upside down, so when i played it - it came out to played reversed which gave it a whole other sound. I had to listen to a lot of countrymusic in my early years, like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson because my dad loved it. I also was on a concert of Johnny Cash in my early years and i hated it. But now i think in a other way about Cash's music. My first rap record i listened to was Mr.Dobalina from Del the funky homosapien...so i got infected with Rap...my first Cd was the Above the Rim O.S.T...as you can think i listenend to a lot of rap music. A little bit of Sonic Youth, Saul Williams, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Anti-Pop Consortium...at one night i saw Aphex Twin's Windowlicker on that M(K Ultra)Tv...which caught my interesst. Then came Drum'n'Bass / Jungle in my life trough Dj Hype, Ragga Twins, Bad Company and artist like them. Somewhere in 2005-2007 i started to do music for myself...

What kind of music are you listening to?

I listen to nature.

Where do you find the inspiration for your music?

I quess from the ether.

How old are you?

28

What´s your favourite drug?

Prana

What´s your favourite videogame?

I don't play videogames, but i loved to play Metroid, Tetris, Castlevania...especially 2D Games...and now i only play one game which is The Cosmic Game called Life.

What´s your favourite musican at the moment?

got none at the moment

What equipment do you use for your music?

Reason 3.0, Wavelab

What kind of hobbies or interests do you have outside of music?

First off my lovely Madame, our Animals, Meditation and Researching So Called Reality

What do you do on weekends? Do you do a lot of clubbing or do like to stay at home?

The same i do everyday...clubbing? No Thanks.

What are your all time top five albums?

in alpha-beta-cial order:

Autechre - Tri Repetae
Aphex Twin - Richard D. James
Squarepusher - Ultravisitor
*censored* - *censored*
N/A - N/A

Is there any singer you would really like to work with?

Betrugah

Did you ever played live?

I deejayed a few times...but i never played live.

Could you please describe your genres in the exact order from your musical beginning till now?

Undescribable

Beautiful interviews of AMZ, Faktor4 and AugZF. Its really cool, now you can read them and learn a bit about the musicians. AugZF is 30? I thought much younger. And AMZ is also 28? Wow and almost everyone has a cat, like me. Funny bunch of guys we are. I love these interviews, fucking excellent they are... but there´s still more to come... lol