Hi!
I'm back in the land of the living from much needed breather. And do I have a good one for you this time:
Antibody interview! I am so happy of this since I'm a fan. Thank you! Blog will continue as before focusing on goth and electronic music with different genres. no edm,dubstep trap etc I promise.
How did Antibody start and what were your inspirations to become a musician?
I think i started making music in 2013 when i was just 12 years old. A dude in school showed me bands like X-rx, Centhron or Suicide Commando and i instantly fell in love with the genre. Another friend of mine showed me Fl studio and i started doing music. Every song sucked when i started but after some years some decent stuff came out. In 2014 i first released under the Antibody monica! I released 2 albums, 3 Eps, some singles and a lot of remixes over the past years. My recent release is called ”I Don’t Understand” and features 2 new songs and 4 remixes by C/A/T/, FabrikC, Xotox and MATT HART.
Antibody is really cool name it sounds like something out of cyberpunk movie or from Watchdogs game. How did you come up with it?
Actually i got it from the Aesthetic Perfection song called ”Antibody”. I thought it would fit very good because its short and memorable while still fitting the whole industrial, gothic theme!
Where do you get inspiration for your songs?
I get my inspiration from pretty much everywhere. I listen to so much different music and its always possible to implement some stuff you hear in your own music. The biggest inspiration always comes when im back from attending concerts or festivals, but that fell a bit short over the last 2 years.
How would you describe Antibody to new listeners?
Thats always a hard question. I think its the hard pounding instrumental industrial stuff from bands like Chainreactor or Phosgore, but i try to implement some new stuff and i always try to evolve my music. A lot of songs dont have the same sound formula but i think i still achieve to have that Antibody touch on every song.
You also have 2 other projects (Frame Of Mind and Gen-ZX), so you had album out every year. Not many artist can pull that off, so how did you manage?
Actually im just a live member of Frame Of Mind and i dont have anything to do with the music alone, thats all Marko Hains work. Working on that gen-zx album was really hard work because of the complexity of the songs but i think we created an awesome album! Im not under a lot of pressure of releasing new songs every year or such. I just work on music and when i have an EP or Album ready i just release it!
All these projects sound like you are evolving and wanting to test out new things but also like they are different sides of you. (Am I wrong?)
Thats my main goal with every project i have. Antibody tries to evolve that standard industrial techno vibe and i always love to work with other artists regarding collaborations or remixes.
Gen-zx is even more experimental with the vocal and guitar stuff. With that project we wanted to do some softer stuff also that different to the boring synthpop stuff you sometimes hear in our scene.
Gen-ZX released an album last year and it is so good one! What is the state of your other projects?
Right now me and Marko both focus on our own stuff, but i am pretty sure we will work on some new music sooner or later. Also i definetly want to play our new album stuff live sometime!
What were the inspirations for Darkness Of The Day?
After our first EP called ”Tick Tock” which was very experimental we tried guitars for the first time on our debut. We wanted some softer cuts but also some very hard and danceable stuff. All in all we just wanted to be very experimental and we wanted to evolve the standard future pop theme. Marko is responsible for all the lyrics so i dont know where he has taken his inspiration from, but his lyrics and singing always fits perfectly to the music i do. Also the whole artwork is just super awesome and so well fitting. Im super proud of that release!
Will there be a tour this year?
I will actually do my first Antibody live show this year at no other festival than the legendary Resistanz Festival in Sheffield! Im super hyped and im so much looking forward to play there!
We will see what happens after that but i would love to play a lot of gigs in my home country Germany and also some new countries!
As for gen-zx there is nothing planned yet, but i would love to present our recent album live too!
What are you future plans?
I just released a new Ep and i will play my first live show soon. So i will definetly work on more music to follow up and i will definetly release a new Antibody album next… though this will still take some time!
