Artist: Logic Bomb

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Artist: Logic Bomb

Date: 02-26-02

By: Mars

 

Q: Hello Johan, Jonaz, and Jonas. Now it's been almost 2 years since your first interview with us. Since that, your Headware album was released and was a success, you also released lots of tracks on EPs and compilations, you played live everywhere in the world, and almost everyone say your music is one the greatest...1) So please tell us what you have in stock to make this stay true ? (name/tracklisting/label/releasedate would be appreciated and would be put in the incoming section)

A: The album will be titeled 'Unlimited', which is also one of the tracks on it. It's a 142 bpm joy-ride, which we like really much. Written in the key 'G', it is one out of a few Logic Bomb tracks that blends together very nicely ('The Pawn' and 'Desires' are a few examples that follow the same structure - G, 142) Another track that we are happy with is 'The Neighbour of the Beast'. The rest will be kept undercover until the release =) Relase date is set to the 22nd of march. This date we will also play live at the release-party in London.

 

Q: People are addicted to that psychedelic touch in all your tracks. Will there be significant changes to your style with this album ?

A: There will be a few slower ones, a bit like the ones we put on the 'Moovers and Groovers' 1 & 2. We thought for a long time about this, wether to put slow tracks on it or not, and we came to the conclusion that we think people will like some more relaxed music on the album aswell. However, most of them are full on party tracks.

 

Q: Has your equipment and/or the way you're working changed since Headware ?

A: Not really, we have sticked to the same concept - the tracks have been produced on an analog mixing table. We've changed some pieces in the studio, but it's mostly smaller components just to make our work more efficient.

 

Q: I've been involved in the Demoscene (http://www.ojuice.net/faq.htm) for years, so the first time i heard you track 'Extension', i immediately recognized the 'CyberRide' track made by Jester for the 'Extension' demo (http://www.niksula.cs.hut.fi/~tive/jester.html). How do you explain that ?

A: We're all old amiga freaks, infact, all of us were part of some demo/cracking group back in the days. So naturally this has influenced our lives alot, aswell as the music. The 'Extension' track was put together by Jonaz alone and we all thought it was very nice so we decided to put in on 'Headware'.

 

Q: I saw your planning: you're always out for an act. What did that change in your way of life? How can you find the time to have a family life, to work and to compose ?

A: We don't have families, neither do we have lives. We're slaves under the promotors nowdays.. hehe. Nah, in the beginning it was really overwhelming. Obviously, to have the produtions that we created ourselves played for thousands and thousands of people was in the beginning an incredible feeling. It still is, but with time comes a certain distance to what you're doing - we see gigs more of a 'dayjob' these days. Still its fantastic to reach out to so many people, to see so many people smiling and dancing their asses off.. It's a tremendous feeling. Never gets boring! But it can be very very hard work sometimes. Composing and producing is still a holy experience for us. This will never change. When we get to a certain stage of a track, and we look at eachother and just go 'man....this is really really sweet stuff' - nothing beats that. And we testdrive all the tracks in there aswell! Usually we turn off the lights, shut the monitor off so that the place becomes pitch black - and we freak out.

 

Q: When & where was your best party ? And your worst one ? What do you think of the scene at the moment ?

A: Wow.. The best parties we ever went to were the ones held in Kilsbergen, just outside Örebro of Sweden.. These parties were held back in the days (93-97) when there were no limits, we we're doing a lot of psychedelics and life was... not even present at the time. No boundaries. The music was all new to us.. You don't see parties like that anymore. The best experience of playing at a party.. is really difficult to say. As I mentioned earlier, with time comes experience and distance. The Boom festival in Portuagal 2000 was amazing. Ofcourse, Jonas was just about to collapse from dehydration, we came there with no supplies, and the promotor stuffed us in a 2 man-tent. The sun was burning hot and we had no food or drinks.. We did have a lot of drugs though.. No but seriously, the gig itself was incredible. Another super-event was the Crystal Skulls Countdown, this newyear in tokyo. 8500 people was there, and the vibes were amazing. The list could be very long, but these are two of our best memories. But then the worst one was also in Japan, this summer at Mt. Fuji - the Solstice summer festival. Just about 8000 people were there, the party was brilliant, lovely people, great atmosphere - everyone was having a real good time - but then when it was time for us to play, after about three tracks, the equipment we used just went dead. Complete Silence. We couldn't fix the problem but had to do an improvised DJ-set instead. But first we were running around the stage like three frightened mice. I still wake up screaming in the middle of the night Anyway, in the end it worked out, but it was just sooooo embaracing! Well we got our revenge this new year, so we're more reliefed now. The psytrance scene at the moment is very much unlike how it was when we first got introduced to it. What really got us hooked was the respect and mysticism around the whole thing. It was all related to drugs in a way, but there was no junkie-attitude. Non-psychedelic substances were banned at the parties. People intoxicated by coke, amfetamine and such were not even welcome, and concidered very lame if they dared to show up. There were a lot of free parties - there still is here in sweden, but not as frequent as about 5 years ago. And the vibes have certainly changed on todays parties. I'd say the scene is maturing in a way. It's great, because we can make a living out of it, plus there's so much extremely nice music coming out which makes it interesting, but a lot of the feeling around it has gone lost. It's going the direction all types of music is going when many people start to like it - mainstream. We try to fill the place that we play at with the vibes that we originally catched back in the days. And the music reflects our vibes. That's why we try to blend old and new sounds in our productions. Some people really appriciate it, some don't like it at all. It's all good to us.

 

Q: And what do you feel when you see people totally freak out to your music ?

A: It's incredible. It's such a feeling that sucks you in, and theres nothing to do but to freak yourself.

 

Q: As Tranan is one of you (Jonas), can you tell me how and why this project started and what direction it's aiming at taking ?

A: The Tranan-project started out when the "Moody"-track was written. The track was so different from the Logic-style so it was decided that it should go under a different artist-name. Right now there is a Tranan-album scheduled to be released this spring/Summer. There will also be a 12"-relase pretty soon on Spiral Trax.

 

Q: I saw Logic Bomb live a few times and you played there some Tranan tracks. But I guess you are now planning to make it a real standalone project ? (tracklisting would be appreciated....you know)

A: Well, there has only been 2 tracks that has been released, "Moody" & Cluedo. We're putting most of our effort in the Logic Bomb project so there is often no time to make the "Tranan-music" As things will calm down with the release of the Logic Bomb album, there will be more time for that.

 

Q: As of today, what are your favourite groups and tracks ?

A: The all-time favourites has not changed, and never will; Orichalcum - the man behind the productions from this group did revolutionary things in his studio for the time being. He has given us a lot of inspiration. And the tracks were brilliantly structured and captured a vibe of something that still today no other artist has been able to be re-create. X-Dream - for setting a new standard in soundproduction in the genre. Just remember 'Panic in Paradise', 'The Second Room' & 'We Create Our Own Happiness'. Top-Notch quality and extremely nice tunes. KoxBox - Ian & Frank did some fabolous tracks back in the days, and are still making very very nice music. They have helped us a LOT during this time, and we have them to thank for many things. HuxFlux - Dennis introduced us to the techniques of sound-engineering, and if it wasn't for him we would not be were we are today. God bless this incredible talanted man.

 

Q: Do you still happen to work with Dennis (Hux Flux) from time to time ?

A: Dennis & Henrik has been very tied up for a while with their fortcomming Album. Both Dennis/Henrik and we are also travelling a lot which makes it a bit hard to find the time. But he called us up a few days ago, and we aim to team up in his studio in Stockholm in April.

 

Q: Would you like to make tracks with some other artists ?

A: Composing is a very sensitive thing, and to work with other artists may be either disaster or enlightenment. If we were to work with other artists, we would try to work with somebody who's not involved with the scene. To do something with Depeche Mode or Massive Attack is our dream. But it seem far-fetched at the time being. We would rather do remixes of other artists tracks than to work with them together in the studio. When it all comes down, that is the way it works best for us.

 

Q: As of today, what is your favourite Logic Bomb track ?

A: I think we can agree on that during the time when we produced 'Shadow of the Beast' and the 'Crunch Moles' remix, we were in a good flow, and captured nice soundscapes. We are very pleased with our new productions of course, but its hard to choose favourites from these ones as they are all so new.

 

Q: What do you think of the MP3 revolution, and what do you think of people trading them without buying the stuff ?

A: Well, that people change music over the net doesn't affect us too much. We all do aswell. But if there's some track we like then we don't settle for an MP3, as the dynamics in the files are worthless - even on 256kb/s bitrate. Then we try to find the original recording instead. What is VERY frustrating to see though, is liveset-recordings being done without our permission - and then being spread over the net. We once played in Mexico for an organization called 'Amanit Forest' - and these guys made a DAT-copy of it - spreaded it and traded other´s music for it. Thats such an incredible stupid and unprofessional thing to do. These guys will have a hard time to get other acts booked for their parties in the future, that's one thing that's for sure.

 

Thanks very much and we wish you good luck for the future !

 

Thanks, and thank you for maintaining what could be the best forum & review page on the net. Keep it up.

 

Sincerely,

Johan & Jonas, Logic Bomb