Q: Who are Loop Records? DJ Pure: I'm responsible for what's released on Loop.

Q: When did you start Loop and why? P: I don't remember exactly. In 93 or 94 I did 2 trax together with Hoschi from Labworks and he took the DAT back to Germany and pressed 500 records. It was in light blue vinyl and had no name. On the one side there was a picture of Hoschi and the sentence "how live sucks" and on the other side a picture from me and "it's OK". After this I decided to start a label. At this time I did parties called "Loop" so that's where the name comes from. The first release was Loop 002 from me and Liza´n´Eliaz with two trax: Killerbees on Acid and Tube Travel.
Loop records is for now and the next future for releasing my stuff which I did either alone or together with close friends.

Q: So what happened to Loop 001?

P: Well, I would say it still has to be done...

Q: So you're a bloody Anarchist! (smiles)

P: So that's anarchism?

Q: It is if you're an arsehole like me! I hear you were thinking of stopping Loop. Why was that?

P: For Loop 004, Violent Shit, I had a manufacturing deal with Plastichead but they aren't able to sell this kind of music and also I got fed up about all this administration worx, it sucks.

Q: A lot of people have said that about Plastichead. Why did you decide to carry on with it?

P: Because I decided to focus on producing and releasing and I prefer to make everything myself so I have to go thru all this dealing with pressing plant, distribution and so, writing invoices...

Q: Did you know there is a Loop Records in, I think, Sweden? You'll probably get sued...

P: I know but who cares. They're releasing trance and I think they stopped already. I was in Zurich/Switzerland last weekend and found the Violent Shit between all those shitty trance records in the Loop Records (Sweden) file. That was fun (laughs).

Q: I guess it would freak a few people (smiles). What music have you been into over the years, like when you were a kid?

P: When I was a child of course I listened to fairy tales. The first record I bought must have been either Beatles or Jimi Hendrix, maybe Doors. I have a very bad memory in general (I often need some time to find my car because I don't remember where I parked it the day before). Then came jazz! Yeah, I listened to much jazz when I was 16 or so. The next step was when a friend played HALBER MENSCH from EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN to me. This was the first of two big musical shocks in my life (the second was when I went to the TRESOR club in Berlin in '91 and experienced (not only heard) the first time techno.). Then I got into Gothic music like Joy Division, Christian Death and so and went further to industrial music like Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Coil, Current 93, Whitehouse and so on. And that's still my biggest influence. Then came my Tresor experience and I got completely into techno and nothing else for about three years. After the end of techno I'm now listening to very different things.

Q: "the end of techno"... what do you mean by that?

P: The main innovation of techno to me was this combination of electronic sound experiments and its effect on the body. It was the first dance music style which sounded strange enuff to me to make me get into it (just remember Underground Resistance: X-101, Vortex on Plus 8, Meng Syndicate, Mescalinum United, Analogue Bubblebath 1+2, Hardwax records, Pro 9, to mention only a few...). in the following years it mutated more 'n' more to the usual entertaining muzak. Techno started as a dance music outside those fucked up clubs with their door policy, fashion victims, overpriced drinks 'n' entries. Look where the "official" techno stands now - it degenerated to a remix of disco music with all its decadent attitudes. So the revolutionary phase of techno is over, it's now part of the system.

Q: What do you think of the word "Underground" and the way it's used now?

P: I think its the most inflationary word of the last years. Everybody says his things are of course underground. If a term is too often abused it looses its profile and that's what happened to "underground". Nowadays it tells you nothing anymore. I can't put my definition of underground in a few sentences but everybody has its own idea of it. The more I think about it the more it seems to be a global term for something what many people are looking for nowadays.

Q: What music do you like now?

P: That's really much, although its mostly electronic music! To describe it with some styles: noise, speed/deathmetal, hartcore, electro, ambient, drum´n´bass, industrial, some of the old Gothic stuff. My DJ sets now are either hard and dark with records from hardcore to techstep labels... or listening music like Autechre, Mego, Japan noise, Ash International, Staalplaat, Vivenza, Coil or just the flyer from the bar.

Q: What got you into electronic music?

P: To me its not important how music I listen to is made as long as its interesting and unique. Just techno made me really listen deep into music and starting to analyse and understand it, so when I started making music of course I started with techno.

Q: Have you thought of making your own instruments, like Aphex Twin supposedly does?

P: He just modified them I think. I also have my little tricks to create sounds I like but basically it's the idea which counts. Connect your mixer with a pick up micro, put it through some effect boxes in any configuration and connect it with your amp and you have your first self built synth with soundsource- filter- amplification.

Q: I don't know much about Austria and the "music scene" there.. what is it like?

P: Do you mean the musicians or the "party" people of the technoscene or what?

Q: Well, tell me about the "techno" scene in general.

P: I'm not in it anymore.

Q: How has it changed over the years?

P: Sadly.

Q: What do you see as it's future, if it has any worth mentioning?

Selftermination. To write something serious: I just don't care about this scene-here-scene-there thing anymore. Ask somebody else I don't know what to answer and I specially don't wanna waste time with thinking about this. Sorry I'm the wrong man.

Q: (Laughs) No worries. You've put on parties in the past. Have you any plans to for more in the future?

P: For hartcore no, not really. To me it makes no sense anymore, it's a waste of time and energy because people come to hartcore parties just for sitting and chatting, there's no party anymore. You have 95 people standing around and 5 dancing, that's no joke. I'm organising a weekly half-private thing for "strange listening music" now with some other guys, that's enuff for the moment. !!!!!!!! (for those who are interessted and have even RealAudio installed try: http://www.t0.or.at/events/e~scape/lounge.htm, it´s every thursday and its live broadcasted, if there are no problems...)!!!!!!! I'm just in general not interested in publicity and social contacts at the moment. I focus more on working in the studio and on my Mac.

Q: Is that why you've given me nothing for the Loop Web site? (smiles)

P: The problem is that I'm into too many things and - you know - the not so important things have to wait till the others are done. (sweetly smiles)

Q: (Grits teeth) MF. I hear you DJ'ed on Christmas Eve and played Praxis 17, Disciples of Belial, the Death Metal track. How did that go down with the crowd?

P It seems that your global net of agents is quite big! (smiles) I must explain that I stopped playing speedcore on parties so this was a special set for a special event in a very special venue and as I said before: people are just sitting around. So while they were chatting I played DoB, GTI, Napalm Death, Nailbomb, Delta 9...

Q: So what was their reaction to this violent music?

P: Reaction? I think you don't want to understand me...

Q: So folks just sat around chatting?! What plans do you have for future Loop releases?

P: Releases under Information:Overload for the harder, noisier stuff. Current 909 for the darkest trax. The second Violent Shit. A collaboration with smoke from GTi. One release called SLAB and much more... Lets see if it happens this way...

Q: It never happens the way you think it will. (smiles). You seem to like making records with other people. Why?

P: All four releases were made with people who played on one of my parties and stayed at my place for some days so we did some tracks together. Other people smoke a joint with their visitors I make music with them.

Q: OK. As usual, I'm confused. You mention four releases, I know of 002, 003 and 004…. Was the other one the trax with Hoschi, if so, where were they released?

P: You shouldn't smoke so much dope it perforizes your brain: the record with hoschi is the not existing cat. no. 001

Q: Bloody anarchist (smiles)! Have you ever not got on with any of the people you've made trax with?

P: I don't think so. Why are you asking?

Q: Because I'm a sensationalist, gutter press, wanker. Is there a different attitude to Austrians and the people you've met from other countries when it comes to music?

P: Yeah. Everywhere else people are more enthusiastic about music.

Q: Everyone in every country says that. Do you think it may just be that people get more enthusiastic when working with folks from other cultures?

P: I meant the people on hardcore parties. All the people I worked with are different because they're different personalities.

Q: On average, how long does it take you to make a track?

P: It depends on the way of creating the track: sampling or synths, midi or cv, hardware or software sequenzers. The shortest were about 15 minutes the longest 1 or 2 weeks. Mostly its 1-3 days.

Q: Is there any producer or musician who you think stands out from the crowd these day?

P: In each style you can find outstanding producers like Richard James, Masami Akita, Ed Rush, Mover, Panacea, Somatix, etc.

Q: Is there a producer or musician who's work you hate?

P: I don't hate other music I simply don't like it. Hating other peoples music would lower me to the same level of these people who - because they cant follow the music I do - hate it or me.

Q: That's very noble! Is there anyone you'd really like to work with?

P: Of course but I wont start any name dropping. I just let things go their way.

Q: I don't know who told me this but I hear you call yourself Pure because you don't smoke or do anything like that....?

P: That's not exactly correct. I just live the way I like to. I try to avoid things which violate my body or my mind, and I want to use them in 30 years too so I think I have to respect them.

Q: Do you try to put a message in your music.. like political or something?

P: I don't have this urge of transmitting information in my music. To me making my music is a quite subliminal controlled process. Its more about emotion and interaction with the machines. Also I can't write lyrics and till now I met nobody who's lyrics I'd like to set to music but I would be interested... maybe once...

Q: What equipment do you use and what equipment would you like to use?

P: My mostly used boxes are: 606/808/909, 101, Korg Monopoly and MS20 and SQ10, Akai VX600, Prophet 600, a small mixer abused as soundgenerator and a couple of cheap guitar effects and finally I got friend with my sampler. As softwaresequencer I use logic 2.5 on a mac.
The equipment I would like to use:
A sampler which is that uncomplicated that even I have fun working with it.
A hardware sequencer which is a mixture of MMT8+Q80+909+MPC3000.
A mixer with Parametric EQ.
A drum computer with all these bad natural drum kit sounds I don't have.

Q: Dream on! There's rumour of a video with one of Loops future releases.

P: The video project is on ice at the moment because the guy had to start his social service for 12 month.

Q: Do you think all the senses should be used in "entertainment"?

P: "entertainment" what an ugly word (smiles) but I agree. Of course music can become more intense if you combine it with visuals.

Q: That's showbiz! (smiles). You do some computer grafix. Would you consider planning a… uhmm… multimedia type project on the future?

P: Like what?

Q: I hoped you'd tell me! Well you're a Graphic Designer as well as musician, perhaps you could combine the two?

P: Perhaps (smiles)

Q: Thanx, that's most informative! What sort of movies do you like?

P: Splatter, trash, horror, any kind of sickness.

Q: Why do you appreciate "darkness"? Why do you enjoy sickness?

P: ´cause its KEWL (laughs)… oh God I don't know.

Q: Have you ever done ski jumping?

P: Of course not. Not everywhere in Austria are mountains! We also don't eat sachertorte and wiener schnitzel all day long.

Q: So you don't wear lederhosen, wrestle bears and do 50 km of cross country skiing just to get a pint of milk for your cornflakes in the morning? Hmm… (smiles). If you gave up making music, what would you do?

P: I enjoy doing computer graphics as much as making music. I definitely need both.

Q: OK. The last question. Tell me about "Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS."

P: KEWL PURE TRASH...(laughs) DIANE THORNE RULES!!!!