Originally published by the now defunct newempire.com
2000
by Evan South
1. Can you give us a little background on KIFOTH,
its beginnings and its members?
mir Colon > The KIFOTH was born in spring of 1993
as a thought of two persons: mir Colon and K-head.
The persons which have sole responsibilities within all
KIFOTH existence. The first KIFOTH’s gig was
executed in summer 1994. It was a part of some two
days summer festival. We done a record of one of that
live performances and covered it with name of our
unofficial demo tape “First Time Public”. No archived
copy owned by myself. But what I remember, there
were some good stuffs, “Mad Dog” of K-head and my
“Jesus Christ” which is recorded twice on our first
official demo material “Civilizative Collapse”
(beginning of 1995). All the KIFOTH’s early songs, a
period until the second half of 1995, are sung by
Slovak tongue. By the end of 1995 KIFOTH recorded
the second demo tape called “Ebola”. And finally the
year 1999, the year of editing our first CD album,
“Spectaclebreakers”, on Slovak FRONT CD label and
later on under licence of Out Of Line for world wide.
As I already told, during all the time KIFOTH consists
of two mentioned brains, which they have performed
themselves to this time to a function as programmer,
sound performer, sampling and mixing master (K-head)
also as philosophy performer, sampling and
arrangement master (mir Colon).
2. How does Spectaclebreakers compare to your earlier
material, circa the Ebola era?
K-head > Spectaclebreakers is an older brother of
Ebola, he is much sophisticated as the brother, is
complicated and more compact like a final matter.
Ebola is divided to two parts by the atmosphere,
lyrics and structure of songs. There the first part is
faster and more conventional like groups from old EBM
school, but the second one is much deeper in sound
and sense of atmosphere. I think the startpoint of the
Spectaclebreakers is where the Ebola finished. He is full
length atmospheric and rolling like a mass from first
track to the last. It‘s a long wall full of graffity where
you can‘t find a space in between them.
mir Colon > The album Spectaclebreakers is the
best shot we have ever done. There is more adventure
in the album. The sound itself is talking story.
Somebody said that the tempers keep the songs alive
listen after listen. Also the themes and the performance
of them are more deep and more particular then the
Ebola themes.
3. Speaking of Ebola, what happened to all the original
demo material that was to be released on VUZ Records?
Will it ever see the light of day or be re-released on
Out Of Line?
mir Colon > I do not think that Out Of Line wants to
deal with the Ebola. But fact is that we prepared a
remastered version of the Ebola album with two
additions: “Release” and treboR’s mix of “Possessed
By The Right To Modify (Disastrous Desire)”. The last
discussion between us and VUZ says that the CD could
be released on spring 2000. For details, keep visiting
KIFOTH homepage.
4. How was the Tierra Electrica 99 tour experience?
How do you approach the live setting? Can you tell us
about the live cd recording of that tour w/ Hocico and
Culture Kultur?
mir Colon > Definitely great. It was our first tour at all
and after that I hope not the last one. We had the
chance to meet any different people, also visit a lot of
beautiful places where the visitors talked to us about
or music. And theirs expressions to our live
performance where sublime. Some people compared us
to our minions. Just amazing experiences that will keep
in us forever. Many thanks to all the people which took
care of us during the tour.
To compare with the Slovak live setting, in the point of
technics they are better definitely. A powerful audio
systems and especially excellent interior of the rooms.
For example, we played in old workshop of squeezing
machines, or a club which seems to me like an interior
of the tower from movie “Name Of Rose”. I can not
forget the boat, a trawler one. Within weekend we
played on festival stages in big halls which was very
interesting in point of visitors image mainly. Some
stirring creatures over there.
There is the live CD TIERRA ELECTRICA already
pushed up to daylight. It includes 4 tracks of each
group, Hocico, Culture Kulture and KIFOTH. And a
bonus of Hocico as an intro. I am talking about 1000
copies limited DIGIPAK edition. The KIFOTH’s
tracks, which you can find there, are Crucified Thief,
Painspeech, Reconciliation and Gripped Illusion
(Reflected version). We had support on stage, a
drummer. So, especially the first two track sounds very
powerful.
5. How do you see the current state of the electro-
industrial scene today? What would you change and/or
improve?
K-head > I am curious what will come, because I
heard everything of all kinds of music and it looks the
same like with technology. 90‘s were improvements of
invents form the 80‘s. We came to the new era of 21st
century, so we have to be ready for new things and I
think that somebody have to invent something new in
electro-industrial music, but it is not so easy. To invent
means lot of experiments and some people have not
sense for experiments.
6. Will all your songs continue to be in English, or will
you revert back to your mother tongue, like you did
while under the original band name of Kneel In Front
Of The Hangman?
mir Colon > We keep the English language. At the
beginning, the English using was a way how to cover
myself, but at present, it is the way how to
communicate. Because of KIFOTH wants give any
messages, I need to adopt that tongue that I can speak
to anybody on this earth. There is still anything to say.
7. What is next for KIFOTH? Are you working on new
material, re-working old material, remixes, etc? Will
you continue to play live?
K-head > New KIFOTH must smell of development.
Also I want to add some faster songs for a new
material. It will be not so easy because I want conserve
the KIFOTH’s face on the forthcoming CD. The
album has to be compact and all songs must sink
together like a puzzle. It will be hard work.
mir Colon > Our intention is to finalize the album till
this autumn. Finally we have the software that we can
re-mix our early stuff. What else? Who knows?
8. Final thoughts/comments?
mir Colon & K-head > We would like to thank you,
Evan, also all of you, the electro fans that you interest
to our production so much that this interview might be
executed. Thank you very much and stay with us.
kifoth.de
myspace.com/kifoth
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