BLACKOLOR As Blac Kolor states in his own Bandcamp: Black is not a color. Black is the mixture of all the colors. With his music, he has known how to mix every kind of tone to create a body of work, that even a decade of releases, it’s still unpredictable. In an interview you said that you got your first cassette in 1985 and that it was one of Depeche Mode.What album if I might ask?What didyou feel listening to it for the first time? It was Some Great Reward and it was not my first tape,but the first original one by DM, with proper cover and shit. So that was my sanctum back then when I was 12. It was my fav back then and it probably still is (alongside 101), only hits. I was totally into it. Listening to it a million times. Think, the ruff industrial like elements caught me, without knowing that other bands laid the foundation for the sound. A couple of years later I understood that. When you had more information. When I amwriting this interview I am listening at the same time to De/Vision, one German band that never hid the Depeche Mode influence. Why do you think that Dave Gahan’s band was so popular in Germany? Oh, I love De/Vision . DM was so popular because of the content. It was a hit machine. Everybody loved it and could deal with the sound. It was fresh and always creative.We all wanted to be Dave back then.Plus,DM played in the GDR just one time, in 1988, which created a massive hype around the band especially in the Eastern parts of Germany. Later you got into industrial with bands like Throbbing Gristle and SkinnyPuppy. It’s an important influence in your music. Howdid you get into that style ofmusic? At the end of the 80s,I got introduce to these bands by a friend. The copied tape business, you heard that already. When the wall came down and we had access to the physical releases we basically gathered around our local record store and shopped everything the record dealer recommended. Heaps of stuff to catch up with back then.In 1990 or maybe 91,I finally realised, this is basically my kind of music, triggering more emotions within me than any other styles.And it is still ongoing. Howdidyou start DJing?AnyDJ that you sawas an influence? I started DJing in the early 90s together with 2 friends, establishing the Electrosmog crew.All out of the need to hear our kind of music in the club. So, we created our own local club night on a regular base and taught ourselves the DJing mechanisms… Learning by doing it in front of the audience basically. All very naive and simple but without any fear of www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be - 14 - makingmistakes.The people honoured that behaviour since we brought them their music – lovely times. And to be honest I had no real DJ role model back then. So, no name dropping here. At the end of the nineties, you started djing Drum’n’ bass and breaks. I was also listening a lot to those styles at the time. Howdo you remember the scenes back in the day? Oh, that was just the best time. I neglected the dark scene almost totally back then,slipping right into that massive energy drum’n’bass could deliver at the end of the 90s.The DnB scene was totally different since it was not about artists and image in the first place. It was all about the music and the rave feeling. Pure energy. I loved that and still do. We still had our regular club night going but I kind of preferred doing the Drum’n’Bass warm up under the hidden moniker of “Fiesemopp”.The people hated it but knew their dark hits will come later, so they let me do and didn’t kickme out of the room.Fun times. How do you remember the composing of your first EP Range? Howdo you see it nowadays? As said, it all started with the track “Range” from the selftitled EP later on. I earned more and more production skills back then and got more confident about the question which sound and techniques could be mine. The positive feedback enabled me to focus on a narrower range of sounds and styles. I kept on producing more stuff like that and my first proper release was born … and so the moniker Blac Kolor. I am still proud of the result nowadays. Considering the circumstances and the level of skills back then, I still think it was the right thing to do. Kold, released only a few months later, is more industrial techno.Why the change? Well, I think Kold was created even before “Range” finally came out. I knew I would like to have a proper album right after the EP, so I produced a lot of stuff in order to find my sound and tried to put things in a context, creating a concept. So most of the sounds of Wide Noise (inclusive Kold) were created pretty much parallel to the Range EP
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