Noorglo - A big 'fuck you' to all bands using playback at concerts

Noorglo became quite famous as a DJ in Italy and as organisator of the famous Decadence parties in Bologna. Besides this Noorglo is also a musician and producer launching his first official release "Hard Body Music" on the Rustblade label mixing industrial music and trance. According to Deranged Psyche who reviewed the album "Hard Body Music" is an appropriate title for a hard-hitting album that one of the best releases coming from the Italian electronic fields in quite a long time. A very good reason to talk with Noorglo... (By Elise Din and Bernard Van Isacker )

Q: Noorglo became quite famous as a DJ in Italy and as organisator of the famous Decadence parties in Bologna. Can you tell us some more about these parties? What kind of attendance do you get?

A: Decadence is the party I was dreaming of when I was a teenager and it really started a new era for italian clubbing. I started to organize it with Carlo in the early 2004 involving the best names from the European scene. I met him when he was promoting Starfuckers hardcore parties and the Sun Explosion beach festival. I was already organizing electro gothic nights with Daryl Syx at that time. We discovered that we had similar objectives about creating a union of fetish, electro, industrial, gothic and everything we learned working with thousands people dancing on festivals and parades. We never have been politically oriented, but our point of view about sexual freedom is clear. And I remind you how the Vatican is literally inside Italy...

Q: There's quite some diversity on your album, with a more experimental approach on the “Ophrmx” and a pure atmospheric end on “12”. I guess this reflects in your musical influences? Where are these situated exactly?

A: Everything I hear influenced and stimulated me. I mixed everything I knew, trying to create my own eclectic style. My 1st release contained ebm, industrial, breakcore, idm, ambient and it represented only one of my sides. I recorded about 100 tracks in 2007 and 2008, and 30 of it were potentially grantedg a place inside the "HBM" album. Before "Hard Body Music" I released a chillout work bootleg.

Q: This is indeed your first official release after some sampler contributions and remixes. Is it the typical story of the DJ trying to do better than what he had to spin?

A: Not exactly. Djing was not what I originally had in mind, but I discovered soon the power of a dj-producer, I've never been a producer. I started around 1998 and in 2000 I met Daryl Syx with whom I produced some remixes and "postwave" tracks for the dancefloors. Later on he asked me to start DJ-ing at parties he was promoting.

Q: What do you and don't like in the current scene and how did that find its way in your album?

A: I think that our scene was in a bad shape in the early 2000ies. perhaps because of the narrowmindness of artists and club owners. It was exciting to renovate... Ebm is not only a musical style, and only by resuming why it was born we can pursue and keep it modern. It was still considered a subgenre of gothic music and it wasn't positive to keeping it modern. I love the new industrial ebm wave coming from Italy and Germany and the hard dance from the Netherlands.

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Q: Are there clichés that still deserve being used for being just too good not to be used?

A: The word "cliché" is not something I can associate with...

Q: What does your studio look like?

A: In the bigger room of my house, I placed a big wooded table from a 1800 church, with all my live instruments linked to two computers, a sofa and white empty walls.

Q: Cool... What kind of remixes did you do in the past and did they already define your current sound we find back on this debut? I noiced you remixed Halo Effect's "Their G.O.D.".

A: I'm really glad about the one I did for Halo Effect and I hope to work together with these guys again, some day. Remixes are a satisfing way to promote both projects and I love to do it. When I do a remix I realy "fight" with a song, until I reach an antithesis. Some other artists I remixed include Spectrum X, Maleficent, Violent Diva. I actually want to relase a remix sampler.

Q: What about the unreleased track "Addict"...

A: A while ago I came back home, still drunk from the evening and I turned on my Korg E-MX. I played and recorded a pattern which became "Addict". There's nothing of really interessing to tell about this track but it worked :)

Q: Your main influences are industrial music and trance. Bands like Nebula-H combined this quite well in the past. Does it bring a more vivid feeling to industrial instead of the wellknown dark electro influences?

A: What we have to remember is that ebm has influenced a lot of other modern styles, and its normal that the new ebm scene is contaminated by the latter. I really listen to every kind of music, from jazz to grindcore, and I play at different parties too. I also wrote soundtracks for independent movies and extreme body art live shows. I've never wanted to classify. And sincerely I don't feel the need either.

Q: You got some really cool sounds and samplings on this album, were these effects you created or some obscure presets?

A: I filled my sampler with slices and selfmade synthetic kicks. Generally I start a track producing a live pattern on my live set up and then I record a jam of it. This way of working gives my music a lot of impact and directness. I don't like using the pc for productions, I use it almost only for dj sets. I hate to produce and publish stuff I can't perform live. And I want to send a big fuck you to all bands using playback at concerts.

Q: Our reviewer described the album as one of the best surprises coming from the Italian electronic fields in quite a long time. Is the Italian scene still alive to your taste or did it need the injection you just gave it?

A: I think that Italy can be proud of its own industrial scene, Rustlade Records label is one of many examples, and we are organizing more and more good parties.

Q: What do you actually expect from this release?

A: "Hard Body Music" wants to stimulate the new step we are aproaching in the body music scene during our parties. I want to rise up what we call "ebm" to all others dance styles and dancefloors, like house, techno, psy.. adapting the original minds to our days.

Band: http://www.myspace.com/noorglo
Label: http://www.rustblade.com /
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