Pop music

It is still a very powerful medium, every media is limited within its own definitions. Pop has certain grey area where projects can be taken much more seriously. Some see us as serious, others as dangerous and subversive which is really the priveledge of the pop media. If we did the same thing in theatre we would only be seen as a theatre group.We don't see the point in making quasi original work because there is nothing which has not yet been made. Pop music in not original these days, it's all the same as 20 years ago, for example what can you do with a guitar after Jimi Hendrix? It still exists because the industry demands a circulation of trash. Technology just updates it - techno/experimental comes from the beginning of the century through Stockhausen to Moroder, not to mention Kraftwerk - they seem to be the last great German classical composers. This is the law for techno/ambient/experimental sensibility.Novelty is a great thing because it is a rarity. Kraftwerk were revolutionary and still have influence 20 years later, there are interesting things going on with ambient/techno etc., particularly with language - that all goes back to Kraftwerk, Eno etc. Pop needs a history to refer from and we are taking from this history and reinterpreting it to reveal a new face. With "In the Army Now" we didn't change the text at all and it brings out a new content. We have no prejudices against popular music, we take anything we find intriguing to make a complex picture.