Originally published by the now defunct newempire.com
2001
by Evan South
1. How would you compare your new album
“Fundamentum Divisionis” to your last album
“Spectaclebreakers”?
mir Colon: I feel the “Fundamentum Divisionis” deeper
than the one before. It’s deeper because of the themes
are expressed deeply and going downward to the core.
I tried to take the faces of all of the betrayal, disgrace,
jealousy up to my face to make myself full of these
feelings. You know, to get me on the edge to show
the ooze pushing the men doing the obscure deeds.
K-head: “Fundamentum Divisionis” is more transparent
as any previous releases of KIFOTH. We have used
only sampling in past. It means samples of noises and
sounds. But now we mainly use synthetisers and
sampling of voices, noises and drums only. These
things make the sound lighter like the
Spectaclebreakers, but more compact too. The
atmosphere, we have achieved with dark distorted
vocals.
mir Colon: Of coarse that the musical performing is
well done caused mainly of the new technology getting
us closer to the top of the electronic scene. We are
more open than ever before. So there is a lot of
opportunities to enclose any elements being outside of
KIFOTH-existence like the female backing vocals.
2. There are many samples from “The Matrix” on this
album. What is the special meaning the movie holds
that you include so many samples?
K-head: “The Matrix” speaks about a false reality. I
think it’s truthful image of our current being. Now, in
the time of corruption and globalization, we see in
medias only the reality projection. The faithful reality
is hidden in the background of politics, leaders and
big corporations.
Everybody says that everything is much clear like
before, each one has full mouth of a better world, but
where is the waste? Where is the dustheap of all the
wrong things?
mir Colon: I take the movie like a very progressive and
cyberpunk set. There is a big message growing up to
you from many sights. The original message, the core,
is still performing the information. The data is a living
very little organism, the cell changing self figure all the
time you are trying to decode it. And I see the
“Fundamentum Divisionis” very similar. So
complicated structure being in the tracks scheme full
of little tempers supporting the base, the speech about
human villainy, the unlimited ugliness.
3. The new album maintains the slow pace that you had
on “Spectaclebreakers”, with only one fast song “The
Query”. Why does KIFOTH prefer slower songs?
mir Colon: That’s the way to force the listeners feel the
power of the sounds, not just to be pressed by the
rhythm. To affect their minds with the messages we
written down.
The reason that KIFOTH does exist is to perform our
thoughts, present the opinions turned to sensations.
We do not understand us as musicians doing just
songs for radios but are a kind of sounds performing
artists having any visions.
K-head: Each track represents my feeling. I’m looking
round myself taking an inspiration. My tracks are a
mirror of the world behind my eyes. I have a feeling,
a story and you can listen the projection of the world
through the filter in my inside. I don’t care about the
tempo. I start composing the song and everything
comes by self, melodies, rhythms, samples, tempo.
4. You sent me advanced artwork of the back of the
new album including an equipment list, but the new cd
does not have any of this. Was the artwork and layout
changed?
mir Colon: Please, understand, we have signed a
contract with Out Of Line Records. We are the music
performers and they do business. The artwork I have
sent to you was constructed by my own design studio,
the “mirCo Laboratory” which represents a graphic
proposal of the group following our agreement with the
Out Of Line. Their graphics studio had have to do the
same and after we both had prepared the artwork the
label have been decided to use one of them.
K-head: This event is in accordance with the agreement.
5. How is it being on the German label Out of line w/
other bands like Hocico and Terminal Choice? Do you
have a good relationship with your label and other bands?
K-head: Out Of Line is the biggest electro label in
Germany of these days. It has many advantages, but
also some disadvantages. We have to live with them.
mir Colon: But however, any good business might be
based on the good relationship between all sides of
the contract and we do it this way too. We want have
very good relationship with each one cooperating with
us. We have very good friendship with all people
supporting us within the Tierra Electrica tour in 1999,
especially the groups members.
KIFOTH: Best regards to you, Erk, Rasco, Frank,
Jashua and Salva. Hope to meet anyone of you soon.
We’re looking forward to the date.
mir Colon: As far as I know the Culture Cultur will also
play on the Wave-Gothic Treffen in Liepzig, so will to
talk to them for sure.
6. Will you be touring this year for your new album or
playing any large festivals?
K-head: The tour is expensive case. Everything
depends on the Out Of Line. If the new CD will have a
good sale and fans will want the concerts, it might be
possible to tour some land.
mir Colon: For now, only the following dates: the
beginning of June, the Wave-Gothic fest, concerts in
Slovakia (we guess to make a video-recording for our
fans haven’t any possibilities go into the concerts),
hope to visit Prague again, other Czech places too.
7. Will any of the original material from your “Ebola”
release ever see the light of day? It has been a very
long time now...
mir Colon: You are right, it is a quite long time. But it
is not just a question of time, also quality of that
production. In point of a retrospect is a good idea to
release the album. We are still in contact with VUZ
Records regarding the CD release, but no concrete
date fixed yet. I think it will be released once (during
two years ...) but it must be taken as the retrospect,
the flashback to the birth of the KIFOTH.
8. What is next for KIFOTH? Are you working on new
material, remixes, etc?
mir Colon: Right now is the time for live performance
preparing. We mix tracks to the live versions, want use
tracks from both CD albums, maybe from the Ebola
too. It is quite hard job because we have to get
together with some our cooperators from the past era
of Spectaclebreakers, The Ebola epoch too, to switch
on all of the equipment together.
K-head: We try to make one body from the music and
the stage image. I join for it cause I think it will be one
of the best KIFOTH performances.
Mir Colon: In point of the KIFOTH’s future steps, we
are testing another software now.
9. Final thoughts/comments?
mir Colon: Please, support us, we have to convince
the world that is profitable to let us presenting our
thoughts. We could have different visions but
necessary point is the positive progress for complex
future.
kifoth.de
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