Hi everybody hope you are well. I proudly give you Beyond Border interview, enjoy!
Hello Beyond Border and thank you for ths opportunity!
Hallo....and the thanks is all on our side....
Let´s start from begnning what inspired you to form Beyond Border?
We didn't form the band in the classical way, but it grew out of the one-man project "Imitation Of Life", which I had set up as a purely instrumental project. At a concert of In Good Faith I met the singer Kai and asked him if he wouldn't want to lend his voice to a piece I had written shortly before...no sooner said than done... "Enjoy Your Life" was born....unfortunately Kai lost his brother to suicide shortly afterwards and I wrote the piece "Where Are You" for him...so a certain intimacy developed which then formed us into a band....but we are still in this forming process....
Describe your music to someone who haven´t heard of it yet (shame on you go listen to them now!)
Actually we want to make pop music, nothing more nothing less...but we want to be guided by our feeling and accordingly we didn't want to set any limits...but we also want to make music that you can listen to classically, like in the years before the 2000s, and not that one song sounds like the next....we make pop with nuances of electronic, indie, rock and trance...but like you said...just listen for yourself...
What music did you listen to when growing up?
With music, you don't really stop growing up. Kai is a child of the 90s with the developments in alternative, the start of techno and underground electro...I'm more of a rock musician with all the AOR from the 70s to the 90s...the common interfaces are the 80s and the current indie sounds....
You really have been productive since day one, it feels like you got music bottled inside you that needs to be out there in a world.
Yes, my head is constantly buzzing with rhythms and melodies...I am a sponge of sounds and soak up everything, from all genres of music...and it all has to come out...for many years I was just the drummer who couldn't contribute to new pieces, then purely a cover musician...now as a mastermind I am able to do everything...technology also helps me a lot....
Where do you get inspiration for songs?
As I said, I take building blocks from everything that surrounds me musically...from every decade of modern pop music and also from the classical realm. I was also a DJ in the rock, metal, indie and gothic scene for many years....
Synthpop/Futurepop/ebm scene is very big in Germany and dominates pretty well DAC (Deutch Alternative Chart) but in other countries the scene is pretty small. How did the scene grow so big in Germany?
Many countries have their own alternative scenes and the German scene is a bit influenced by the black scene...but the question is always, what came first? The music or the festivals that made the scene so big? Something in this direction developed in Germany very early on. Kraftwerk and co have laid the foundations... Techno became a mass movement and many got stuck musically in the 80s... all in all, it is great to find such an offer in Germany.
What I like about the scene is people are polite and bands communicate with fans and that makes it feel special.
In any case...the scene is also very small and has a certain problem of new blood...the people who move in this scene are at the age where one has mostly still learned a sensible way of dealing and where life experience also gives one a certain calmness...the energy is then let out in the music.
For bands and fans, communication is the most important thing, so you get to know each other and get the stories around it. Often, as an artist, you draw your ideas from the feedback of fans and listeners...everyone is equally important to everyone and so everything is very direct and immediate...but that also makes the system very fragile!
If we go back to beginning was it how easy to break into scene?
I (deity) came to the scene through metal music and the eighties...a mixture that continues to this day in various streams of the scene. But I also liked this technoid part in the music and so I had an easy entry into the music...The pretty robes of the girls did the rest. I already had friends in the scene and have quickly found some to....also no, the entry was not difficult. But is also always such time windows, where the scene really sucks you in and you're in quickly and then there are again such closed times or even pandemics ... the scene is basically very open and tolerant, as long as you're somehow different -lol
What are biggest challenges for an artist these days?
The biggest challenge is the overabundance of releases, by simplifying production and putting out technically high quality music...there to hit the right note that is current and not too plagiaristic....simple stress ;-)
What advise would you give to people who want to start making music?
Believe in yourself, stay permanently on the ball, do what comes into your head and if everyone does it, it is not automatically good...and always take successful music from different times of your favorite music and listen beyond your normal listening habits also in other music genres.
Things are finally getting back to normal. During pandemic streaming gigs emerged also virtual band meetings. Do you think those are here to stay?
I think we have to keep coming up with new ideas and alternatives, but without a real audience it remains anemic....
What would be your biggest dream as artist?
I think that as musicians we have very normal dreams...for example to play in a lot of different countries all over the world to meet a lot of fans and friends...to attend all the big festivals and hear great stories that you can share with our music...something like that...
What would be your future plans?
Do more music...have a long and proser life in peace ;-)
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https://beyondborder.bandcamp.com/
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