TB: Why did you prefer to record 2 long tracks instead of multiple shorter ones?
L: I really like the idea of a story expressed in a musical form. I’m not an author and not good at writing, but for me a single track is like one scenario in a book or movie, capturing one emotional development. But personally the crucial part is overcoming this particular emotion and transforming it into something else. Those three seconds between the one track finishing and the other one starting is enough to lose the connection and reset your mind to the next one. It’s like reading a book, and after every scenario there is one empty page in between, it would just drag me out of the experience.
TB: I like to see these tracks as the duality of the human nature, where the ambient version represents our inner, more authentic but also raw self, and the techno version is the persona, that constructed self we want to put out there in the world, while both being necessary to balance each other. How do you see these tracks and what would be the result of these personal interactions and transformations?
L: First of all, that is really a nice interpretation. I was never really interested in crafting a narrative around the music, so it is interesting for me to see what kind of impact it has. Choosing this title and the names of the tracks, it sort of structures your perception beforehand and your interpretation, because let's face it, if I would call the album the “fairytale of a lunatic”, you might have come to a complete other interpretation. I wanted to keep it raw and let it not be rationalized and structuralized, but at the same time it is impossible not to do it. Because our mind does it naturally, it needs to create those “personas” around the raw images, so it can understand and predict it into future events. Personalization on a higher level I guess, so that’s the game between those two interpretations, keep going on in a loop until eternity.
I like to follow your interpretation. I guess what techno certainly does is to provide structure, even though it can get really chaotic. So the popularity of these genres shows a demand of certainty, something you can rely on. On the other side the persona we construct has to be under surveillance at all time and needs to be reevaluated and adapted when the environment changes. Therefore it is necessary to go back to this more raw and pure form of our self, so we can look at it and identify what’s needed to be changed. I have been always interested in the transformative aspect of this process and constantly seeking for techniques and methods to develop and evolve.
