[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Selected quotes – Cosmic Baby 1991-1998
We are at the beginning of a new, global playground where emotion and imagination will change the entire culture in the future with the help of electronics.
(Tip, July 1991)
Isn’t it an incredible phenomenon that a 909 bass drum in combination with a clear sine tone can catapult you into a completely new world from one second to the next? Not since the days of Jimi Hendrix with his insane feedback on the guitar has such a thing happened!!!
(Radio interview, DT64 with Marcos Lopez, Dec 1991)
My music is an inventory of the world as I experience it, process it and finally release it to the outside world. It’s wonderful when someone can use it to make their own world more beautiful.
(Frontpage Feb. 1992)
Handel and Mozart were “party musicians” in their day. People enjoyed it because it was both functional and ingenious in terms of content. In 1992, instead of the Wiener Hof, there is the “Tresor” or the “Omen”.
(Frontpage Feb. 1992)
It is not the forms but only the content that can be reactionary.
(Frontpage Feb. 1992)
I am interested in the borderline areas of human existence. It’s not so much the verifiable, the measurable that turns me on. I live, have experiences, act and am curious to see how things develop. In mythology and Far Eastern cultures, e.g. Taoism, many insights were gained about trance states: The whole was considered intuitively and not broken up and analyzed individually for itself. It is only in recent years that we have come to realize that in a universal order, everything is connected to everything else, is configured together and feeds back into each other. Unnatural interventions in a system do not result in real knowledge, but are rather destructive and arbitrary. Music also functions in large emotional blocks and not in serial individual events.
We should come back down to earth and focus more on global ecological and human issues. There is still a lot to discover here. Take dolphin researcher John Lilly, for example, who has been trying to study their behavior since the late 1950s. For me, whales and dolphins are the most amazing creatures because they never use their intelligence and communication destructively. As mammals, they have consciously returned to the water. For me, they are the ideal metaphor for universal consciousness.
(Zitty, June 1992)
Exhilaration, ecstasy, the feeling of being able to embrace everyone in the room at that moment: how can we manage to turn this experience into a natural way of life?
(Tempo, Nov92)
J.S.Bach, Buddha, J.P. Sartre, Robert Wilson, I. Stravinsky, Eric Satie, Kasimir Malevich, F. Cappra, Milan Kundera, Heisenberg, Einstein, Claude Debussy, Michael S. Gorbachev, Marilyn Monroe, Max Frisch, Kraftwerk, etc. pp:
Everything that has ever touched me in my life flows into my personality. Ideas, thoughts and experiences are like metaphysical samples and our storage capacity is sooo big!!!
(“Techno”, Philipp Anz and Patrick Walder, Verlag Ricco Bilger, Zurich 1995)
At the beginning of a movement, people are conscious; it’s like you’re on your way to creating a new world. The people you meet in this phase seem to be your kindred sisters and brothers. This feeling releases an incredibly strong potential for power and creativity.
(Cut, 1993)
I think it’s often the people who first celebrate you in the highest superlatives who are then the first to want to destroy you.
(Max, 1994)
I`m not a political composer, but I`m a political person
(Mixmag, Feb 1994)
Techno music should be defined as the sum of all music made with the help of electronic sound generators. Every style has its counter-style and the confrontation with it possibly results in a new idea… Lately I’ve noticed a tendency towards a standardization or a dull separation of styles. There are more and more instances that presume to want to determine what is “right” and what is “wrong”. We really do seem to be living in the “Middle Ages” of electronic music and I feel honored to be demonized as a beautiful Renaissance artist in this context.
(Raveline, September 1994)
My music is characterized by doing harmonies first and then adding the beats. I`d say that most techno artists work in a reverse fashion.
(College Radio LA, Oct 94)
On the negative side, I find the ultra-short-term memory of many parts of the (techno) media and their recipients fascinating: it is not the validity of a statement that seems to be the criterion, but the power behind those who adapt their statements to the given situation at all times.
(Raveline, September 1994)
I would feel terribly restricted and underchallenged if I didn’t set myself new artistic goals other than producing a good new techno 12″. For a while, the development of techno culture and that of my own music went together wonderfully: it had a place in it. In the meantime, I can no longer realize much of it in the techno context, so I have to look for new fields and forms.
(Prinz-Stuttgart, Feb 96)
As your personality changes, so does your sound.
(Partysan, April 1995)
I have to make a very clear distinction here between the content and the form of the term (trance): just because a term has been overloaded by trends and the press and artistically exploited in the cheapest and most grotesque way does not mean that the philosophy and intention of the content must also be thrown overboard … The purely formal gesture has nothing to do with the qualitative intention.
(Partysan, Feb 96)
I’ve always been fascinated by what doesn’t exist and what I can’t explain. If I exist, then let me dream and realize what I dream about.
(Zurich, DRS – radio interview, July 95)
Self-confidence means being aware of yourself. I have to do the things I want to do and I don’t have to care whether they make me acceptable or unacceptable for a certain scene.
(Prinz-Köln, Jan 97)
Knowing that we are on the threshold of a new millennium, I am struck by the ambivalent feeling of looking back and looking forward. We live at a strange intersection between a world that is still physical and connected to nature and a disembodied, technological and digital world. Interpersonal developments exacerbated by the total breakthrough of globalized capitalism, such as loneliness, impoverishment, xenophobia, as well as the unchecked global ecological catastrophe, which has been pushed into the background due to economic problems, frighten me. At the same time, I love the opportunities for self-realization that this time offers me, which were undreamt of two decades ago. Ultimately, I am both an observer and an actor in a world that is changing ever more rapidly; the future: open in a tinglingly gruesome way!
(Nov98, Joy)
Techno as an idea was the starting point for defining myself artistically. The “playground”, as I once defined it in 1991, has become a functionally organized leisure park, in which consumer needs are simply to be covered nowadays. But I would never deny my roots.
(May 98, Prince Cologne)
I still see no reason to want to describe the world in its tendency towards even more speed and objectification with precisely these musical means. I would rather invite people to take their time … because, in my opinion, time is one of the real luxuries of this era.
(May 98, Prince Cologne)
The two events you mentioned have one thing in common: they are both mindless mass spectacles. A boxing match today is above all a TV spectacle concept that aims to sell as many advertising blocks as possible. A state visit by Bill Clinton is a prestige show intended to symbolize the people’s belief in the functioning of the system and that of their leaders. Enhancing these shows with contemporary soundtracks would be a new building block on the road to the Brave New World, where everything is relative, everything is cool, everything is entertainment. Such events deserve the music they deserve: Melodic rock by Bon Jovi or marching music by the Bundeswehr band. We should support a central happening with 7.5 million real unemployed people with our music.
(Partysan June98)
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