Interview Anders Remmer /SYSTEM

Finalmente un po' di materiale fresco di produzione dai tre pionieri dell'elettronica danese -dopo circa 5 anni di silenzio-, che rispondono all'algido moniker di System, noti ad alcuni nostri lettori per il loro apprezzato progetto Future 3. In realtà, come ci conferma lo stesso Anders in questa breve chiacchierata che di seguito pubblichiamo, i tre vettori si erano temporaneamente separati per riunire i flussi, considerato che ciascuno dei tre musicisti porta avanti con successo proprie formule sonore: Anders Remmer continua a produrre con il moniker Dub Tractor per la City Centre Offices; Thomas Knak aka Opiate ha sfornato release per la April, la Morr Music e la Raster Noton (assieme ad Alva Noto per il progetto Optp); Jesper Skaanings ha salutato nel 2005 la produzione del primo lavoro del suo progetto Acustic (l'album si intitolava Welcome), edito dalla stessa Rump. In questo EP, i System lanciano sguardi ammiccanti alla scena britannica: il dub-step non è piu' troppo rallentato, ma subisce una leggera accelerazione, il suono -pur ricordando in parte cio' che si ascolta in terra d'Albiuone di recente- mostra comunque quell'imprinting che li rese famosi. Anche se Anders ci dice che non sono disposti -come altri musicisti- a produrre niente che loro non ritengano in qualche maniera originale, speriamo di poter ascoltare presto un loro full length. Nell'attesa ci godiamo questo Tempo! System Tempo EP (Rump Recordings) A1.Nothing A2.B A3.Rumpstep B4.Ekko

Hi Anders! I've listened to System's last Ep. It's really cheeky! Another wedge in the colourful mosaic of Danish electronic-dub music scene! Are you going to publish a follow-up of Tempo? We hope so. At the momment we are all very busy working with another project (a quartet called People Press Play). But we have some new tracks in the pipeline.

In your own words, what are the peculiarities of Danish scene which distinguish it from the rest of the world? Well, it's hard to say...I think the danish scene is quite varied, most international trends have their niche in the danish scene. I think the way I look at danish music is colored by my taste in music. But maybe danish music has a tendency to be more minimal. We are quite good a making sort of see-through music. And we are often very good friends with melancholy.

The reason/s for this 5 yrs long period of silence? We have been working with our solo projects (Dub Tractor, Acustic and Opiate). And making music for films. And our new band, People Press Play, with the singer Sara Savery. And we are not really in a hurry to release records. We have allready released a lot of material (solo and together), so we just take our time to make our music evolve...if it doesn't we just don't release it....

Future 3 has been of the most interesting discovery coming from that latitudes some yrs ago. Very good contemplative music. Are going to make a reprise of it? No, not really. But maybe some of the atmosphere lives on in our current projects.

How do you think music will evolve in the nearest future? Oh no, not an easy question...but I think there will be more and more and more bands filling up the internet. Maybe one day soon the number of bands on the earth will exceed the number of people.

What's your opinion on what has recently happened at Noerrebro's Ungdomshuset? Not really, I used to go there a lot, but thats many, many years ago.

Any work in progess??? We are working on solo projects and on stuff with People Press Play.