Originally published in Side-Line magazine
2003
by Evan South
1.) Let's begin with the new 4-cd box set celebrating 10
years of Hocico. Tell us all about its contents and what
we can expect to see and hear...
Three of the Cd's contain each one of the three Hocico
demo tapes in their original versions, including the very
first demo "Misuse, Abuse and Accident" that was
never released before plus a bunch of old tracks never
heard before as a special bonus. You´ll hear the real
start of the band, which is what we want to share now
to celebrate. The other CD contains remixes from:
Suicide Commando, Terminal Choice Combichrist,
Kiew, Soman, Aslan Faction, God Module, Solitary
Experiments, Obedience, Haujobb, Dyoxide and two
multimedia live shots.
2.) How would you compare your older material to
what you are doing currently? Any worries that your
re-releases are going to sound too "dated"?
The quality of these old recordings can´t be compared
to our new stuff, but all of them, old and new songs,
keep the same spirit, so in this aspect the old songs
aren´t too dated, they are still full of energy and most
of them can still be played to satisfy the current club
standards.
3.) Your fourth disc of newer, remixed material has
quite a lineup of talent doing the remixing. How do you
feel doing remixes, and also having your material
remixed? Any particular favorite remixes from the cd?
Our favorite remixes are from Combi Christ, Suicide
Commando, Terminal Choice. Musically we prefer to
work with new stuff, rather than remixing someone
else´s music, though it is fun sometimes. Having our
material remixed has been sometimes a very pleasant,
but also a very disgusting experience. This is the first
remix CD we realse and most of the bands included on
it are friends of us.
4.) You have toured extensively in the past (especially
Europe) and have another tour lined up for Nov. 2003.
What are some of your thoughts and expereinces
touring (first USA tour included)?
It´s been very good years, we have known the
underground scenes of many places of the world in a
short period of time and we have been enjoying this to
the maximum. Touring is something very important for
us as a band, It gives us energies to keep on doing
what we do, it is important to get personally the
feedback from the audience. Touring can be hard
sometimes because it could become a routinary
activity in which you lose emotions during it, but we
always try to get the best from the people on every
show and that gives us the life. The USA tour was a
great experience, we hope to get back there to play
live again.
5.) How do you translate the anger and aggression
from your cd's onto the live stage? I have also noticed
on your live recordings you have all new music/intros
as part of the live set...
Recording at studio is a different experience than
playing live, so that´s why the songs meant to play live
need a different treatment, at studio we make
something like dummies that need a special
arrangement to be on stage to please us and get this
special “live“ touch. Recording the live versions of the
songs is like recording another CD, we add new
sounds and atmospheres to them. We need this to play
live otherwise it would be something boring for us.
Compared to the CD recordings anger and agression
take a new face on stage, We have no compassion for
the keys and the mic, so the energy flows without
limits all over the show. The rest is done by the
audience.
6.) How is the electro/indutrial scene in Mexico
currently? Besides yourself, Cenobita is one of the only
other notable projects coming out of Mexico. It
seemed there were more bands earlier (like Deus Ex
Machina, etc) when "La Corporacion" was around.
Your thoughts on this?
There has always been bands, year by year the scene in
Mexico has been growing. At the moment many young
bands are coming out, some of them are: Amduscia,
Acid Trauma, Data, Disfuncion Organica, Epidemia.
And there were many others that deceased. There have
always been people in Mexico doing hard electronic
music, not only for the “corporacion”.
7.) The Dulce Liquido project is doing quite well for
Racso, and the latest cd "Shock Therapy" is much
more song/vocal oriented than the first release. How is
it written and kept a seperate project from Hocico?
Racso has kept doing DL for the same period of time
than Hocico, but he just released an official CD until
2000. DL it is his personal way to make music and and
it isn´t hard to keep this separate project, because he
don´t put limits by being the Racso of Hocico. At the
beginning DL was more electro/vocal orientated and
Hocico was more like electronic punk and black metal
orientated, but as the time passed things changed and
Hocico has become more a band experimenting with
different trends, we call it music recycling, and DL has
become a more extreme thing.
8.) You've come a long way in the last ten years. Early
on you were compared to the likes of Wumpscut and
Yelworc before establishing your own identity. Also,
you signed to a bigger label in Europe and in the last
year finally licensed in the USA through Metropolis.
Do you feel you've accomplished everything you set
out to do, or is there more work to be done?
Definitely there´s still a lot of work to do, this is just
the beginning. So far we are happy with everything we
have acomplished, but it is still too early to say that we
have acomplished everything we wanted. There´s still
many songs in our minds waiting to be released.
9.) Are you already working on new material, and what
else is in the future of Hocico and Dulce Liquido,
releases, tours, etc?
We just finished the small tour over Europe celebrating
our tenth anniversary. We´ll get back home to work on
the new Hocico album, with which we plan to do our
most extensive world tour ever and Dulce Liquido will
play one exclusive show in Mexico city in february.
10.) Final thoughts/comments?
Los hijos del Infierno say: fuck the US government!
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