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Topic: Electric OrangePosted By: toroddfuglesteg
Subject: Electric Orange
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 03:35
Electric Orange are a German (neo) krautrock band, mainly based on two masterminds Dirk Jan Müller (keys) and Dirk Bittner (guitar). Up to now both musicians had uncounted collaborations during their development and produced a huge amount of material on MC, Vinyl and CD-R. Besides some temporary flirts with house/techno elements the band actually deliver trippy krautrock adapted music, cheerful electronic like Tangerine Dream or Popol Vuh as well as provided with obsessional rhythms near to Can or even Kraftwerk.
I got in touch with them through Dirk and here is his answers to my questions.
I believe ProgArchives biography on
Electric Orange
is pretty accurate. But why did you choose that name and which bands was your
main inspirations ?
As I
formed the Band in 1992, I wanted a bandname that sound like an old
Krautrockband. Inspiration came from Electric Food, Electric Sandwich
etc.
Let's run through your releases.
Please say whatever comes into your head about them, starting with Electric
Orange from 1993
and finishing with Krautrock from Hell from this
year.
1993
Debutalbum: This is only me with guest musicians. Drums off the computer. Not
much in common with our style of today. Amateurish. 1996 Cyberdelic: Mixing
Krautrock with then actual sounds of Trip Hop/Drum’n’bass. 2000 Abgelaufen:
Back to Krautrock and full Band 2003 Platte:
Very long sessions 2005 Fleischwerk: Very mixed in style, not to everybody’s
taste 2007 Morbus: Most successful up to now 2010 Krautrock From Hell: For
me, the record I am most pleased with
How is your writing and creative
processes ?
We are writing while
recording. Starting with a beat, bassline or riff. The first album down in
1993 and Cyberdelic in 1995 were 100% composed, but with improvised instruments
on top.
Abgelaufen, Platte and Fleischwerk were recorded and edited
session-tracks with overdubs.
The new album and morbus
were composed again with many improvised parts. It’s always a mixture between
both.
Most ProgArchives readers does not
know your music. How would you describe your music to those here who are
unfamiliar with your band ?
A
mixture of Krautrock, 70s Electronics, 70s Prog, hypnotic beats and Space. All
this with a mixture of 70s sound and production, but with modern
approach.
Is any of the Electric Orange members involved in any other bands or projects ?
Not at
the moment. Some sessions here and there, but nothing
concrete.
Is music your main occupation or do
any of you have daytime jobs outside the music scene ?
We all
have normal jobs, nothing related to music. With this kind of music, you cannot
make enough money for a living.
What is your latest update and your
plans for this and next year ?
Playing
some more gigs this year and starting recording a new album for end of
2011.
To wrap up this interview, is there
anything you want to add to this interview ?
We
hope, interested readers of the progarchives will give us a chance a listen to
our music. Support bands buying their records and don’t download their
stuff…
Thank you to Dirk for this interview
Their biography is http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=3249 - and their homepage http://www.electric-orange.com/ -
Replies: Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: August 10 2010 at 14:58