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DUNKELWERK . Operation: Duesterland [CD / 2CDbox / digital]
Old school Endzeit Electro with modern elements and an attitude. Deep emotions on movie-like sceneries of total defeat! Authentic rare original German war broadcast recordings. One of the strongest anti-war albums this scene has to offer!
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electronic music with attitude
It’s been 3 years already since the last IMPLANT album… Will IMPLANT be able to surprise us again? I’m not sure if I’ll surprise people or not. I never wrote an album with the idea in mind to surprise. This time again, I have a feeling we worked on an album that makes
You mention one song together with Claus Larsen… Can we expect more collaborations again as always? The collabs are not that many this time. One reason is that a lot of those collabs end up being the very good tracks of the album, and then we can’t do them live, unless we put the vocals in the backing. And again, the track with Claus is so good, it’s kind of a shame we’ll never be able to do this live. Or maybe once, who knows. Still, it’s not going to be a track we’ll play on every concert, simply because You already let a few songs out on we can’t put Claus in the backline! some compilations… How much Other collabs on this album are do these songs represent the new Bonnie from Krystal System, who does guest vocals on a track, and 2 album actually? Only the one on sounds of the ma- backing by Isa Garcia from XMH. trix 013 will be featured on the And that is it. But lots of friends album as is. “Lord knows I tried” from the music scene did remixes with Claus Larsen is also on the al- for disk 2 (and disc 3). So lots of bum, but totally reworked. To my collabs there still though. opinion way better than the previous released version. The track Where do you still find that inspion Endzeit Bunkertracks act VI ration after all these years without will be on disc 2 (the limited ver- ever repeating yourself? sion). All other released compila- Hé, we are the productive citition tracks will not be on this al- zens… laugh! bum. Basically because they didn’t fit the flow of the album.
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The Productive Citizen»… How should we understand such album title? Sarcastic? This is our feel to the current economic system. Belgium is strongly taxing on the working mass to keep the brute national budget in balance. We have an index system, constantly rising wages, so companies expect the production level of the workers to increase or outsource working capacity. There is this constant pressure to produce more, to contribute, to participate in the system. And I have a feeling that is not only a Belgian story, but something that holds up for the world economies. Yet, art is never valued in that balance. While I feel more productive on releasing a new album, than producing more e-mails. Maybe we should re-evaluate productivity or log out of the game!
sense as the next step. We did rework and re-work end re-worked tracks. That was kind of a new approach to an album. But we wanted to step away from the normal pattern of creating a track, record vocals, next. These tracks have been re-altered after the vocals and then re-worked again, till we felt like they were really finished, and reflected a track to the best of our abilities. We also wrote a few real lyrics, using rime, chore rime. And that is something new for Implant…