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Hi, and thanks for your
time. First of all, please introduce your band to the
world.
Christo (bass): Hi! I’m Christo from Deflore. I’m
the bass player and the one who gets mad with all the
electronic stuff! Deflore is a non conventional
instrumental band. We love to search for new sounds and
atmospheres, to mix it together and to create something
very innovative. We have two words to define our music:
‘Pathos’ and ‘Saturation’.
You call your style "Human Indu[b]strial". What
exactly ís "Human Indu[b]strial"?
Christo: We don’t like being closed in one
definition, industrial metal was too tightened for us.
We try to explore all the possibilities that music and
technology gave us, we try to navigate thru psychedelic
atmospheres like electronic dub or trip hop (we love
bands like Massive Attack or Portishead) and to mix it
with industrial beats. We decided to give to our style a
brand new name: ‘Human Indu[b]strial’. Human because our
music is real (we play everything and we try to recreate
all the sound during the live shows) Indu[b]strial it’s
a mixed world that want to mean ‘Industrial in dub’..
What are your main influences?
Christo: I don’t have a preferred music style, I
listen to almost every kind of music (excluding some
shits like Linkin Park & sons) from industrial metal to
electronic music, dub, trip hop and classical music (I
personally love Wagner). I really don’t like to feel
strong influences from other bands, I think that
everyone who wants to play music must find his personal
way of communicate , his own sound….like we do! However
some bands I really love are Neurosis, Godflesh, Massive
Attack and Autechre Fantomas to name a few.
Your debut album came out some months ago. Please
give me and the readers some information about it.
Christo: “Human Indu[b]strial” it’s out on SX
distribution (www.sxdistribution.de) since the 15 of
November 2005, and it will soon be reprinted for the
English distribution Pro-Sonic (PHD). You can also find
“Human Indu[b]strial” on digital distributions like
I-Tunes and Napster. I think it is a very good album,
complete and introspective… it kinda represents our
life, our point of view on music and the world we live
in. We’ve done hard work on it, we’ve been experimenting
a lot, trying new sound solutions and implementing new
instruments like metals, saws and radio noises etc...
you will surely love it! (yeah my ego is my
bestfriend…heheheh!!!)
You are on a pretty new and independent label,
SubSound Records, which currently only has two bands
signed. How did you get in touch with them?
Christo: Subsound Records is a brand new
independent label from Rome that gave us the possibility
to produce a good album. Davide “The Boss” believe in us
and is trying to create a new italian scene of
electronic noise rock! Davide (he is also a good
independent director) produced our first videoclip
“Incudine” during 2002, then he fell in love with our
music and two years later we signed the contract with
the newborn Subsound Records.
Why did you decide to take the step to a newborn
label in stead of releasing some more demos to watch out
for other offers?
Christo: Well actually I really don’t know! We
play togheter since 1999 and we love composing music,
but we dislike the music business itself and we don’t
like all the work that you have to do to try to find a
label and produce (or probably co-produce) an album.
Subsound Records is a newborn label, but with great
ideas and an intelligent way to look at the music.
Davide produced all the album like a big label: he gave
us lots of time without any pressure to record the
album, he arranged a good sound engeneer (Andrea Secchi)
and the mastering was done at Finnvox studios in
Helsinki (by Mika Jussila)! This is not really the style
of an indi label!
What can we expect of Deflore in the future?
Christo: I really think that wé are the future!
Maybe a little reality but that looks forward to
innovation and power! Great live sets that everyone cant
miss during our next tour! And we are near to shoot the
first videoclip from the Human Indu[b]strial album,
probably of the song “Emostatico”. Brand new
merchandising is coming up too, like t-shirt, pins,
stickers etc.. and be sure you can expect another album
in the next year!
Thanks a lot for your time! Something to add? The
final words are yours.
Christo: Not a lot to add, only one thing for the
readers: “never stop to search….there’s always something
different.”
Interview by: Gerardo (May 2006) |
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