The Brvtalist: So I have to ask you to talk about how this whole thing came about and what is the idea behind it.
Brad Apodaca: The band is a bit free-flowing. People can come and go and return when they please. I would say it's centered around the studio that Cyrusrex has built and branches out from there as we have friends all over that have helped in some way. The record began with the preproduction on what would have been the next DJM/Rex album. Cyrus, Douglas, and Ken had started working on a follow up to their EP's 1 & 2 & 3 (3 being unreleased). . . . and as friends and collaborators started to help out, it soon became much more than the duo that started it. Once you open the door to working with people and nurture a creative environment you will either get a massive pile of egos that nothing good will come of, or you luck out like we did and have a lot of fun and make something original, with no singular voice that we can all be proud of.
TB: With two founding members of Nitzer Ebb, the bassist from Ministry and one of the most well known names in the electronics world just to START, what can we expect in terms of sound?
BA: I suggest listening in headphones. There is a lot of ear candy on this record. Zack, Douglas, Cyrus, and Ken did a really great job of reeling some of us in. It's easy to get in there and just make so many cool sounds, but sculpting it into listenable "music" can be a chore. We wanted the record to be challenging but not unlistenable. We want people to hear it and feel that we've done something different and that it was worth every bit of work we put into it.
