Widerstand is a relatvely new label hailing from the small city of Graz, Austria. Their first release managed to get around to those with some luck and helped establish their noise-based grinding sound. This round of interrogation is with label owners Christoph & Daniel, who produce individually under the names Gwal & Eiterhard.

DJ Entox: Are you both from Graz?
Daniel/Christoph : yes..

DJ: Did you meet up in school or after.. when?
Daniel: Well, after a time we got together and I wanted to make a label, and I didn't want to manage it alone. So when we met up there was energy to do it so we started up the label.

DJ: So were you both listening to techno when you met?
D: yeah, sure.. we had both done something separately. We organized some parties and did some composing on computers and such..

DJ: So, were you both producing before you met..?
C/D: yeah...
D: .. just at home, nothing for official release.

DJ: Do you come from different scenes + background, such as Death/Black Metal, Industrial, etc. ?
C: Yeah, I'm from more of an industrial background..
D: Me, I come from listening to hip hop stuff and metal.. hardcore, death metal, grindcore.. anything just hard.. I didn't like techno at first, but then it became harder and better..

DJ: Hmm.. well, what do you both think of Graz?
C: It's very easy to live here because you don't really have any problems.. you can do many things..
D: Yeah, it's a little town and everything is quite near.. but at night it's pretty boring, there's not much to do.. just say home make music, etc.

DJ: Do you both go to Vienna a lot?
D: sometimes, yeah..

DJ: Do you DJ when there are parties in Vienna..?
D: No, we pretty much just play live. I DJ'd a few years ago, now I don't really have the time & I just recently started buying records again... no money before..

DJ: Have you done anything in any other cities in Austria?
C: Not really.. once in some small town..
D: There's no hardcore scene in other towns... maybe Salzburg a little bit..
C: lots of towns are very soft, ecstasy takers and shit.
D: Why did you start a sublabel of Widerstand.. Silent Revolution?
C: The first idea was to make another sound.. completely different from Widerstand. Silent Revolution 1 isn't very different to Widerstand's stuff.. erm...
D: we wanted to do more noise-oriented stuff.. just making 7", release more..
C: In the future, we want to release stuff with complicated covers..
D: .. more special things... blood in the cover and such things.
C: Silent Revolution 2 is 2 7" and it has blood in the cover..
D:.. it will take some time to do this!

DJ: do you think packaging is very important.. as far as doing things with graphics..?
C: yes, very much.. Silent Revolution will be against heroin, so that's why I want to make.. um..
D: .. a very shocking cover, against heroin.. total anger, disgusting.

DJ: So heroin has become prety big in Graz?
C: In the winter.. now it's better, but in Winter, everybody's sitting around and has nothing to do..
D: it's a big problem here and no one realizes what they're doing to themselves.
C: If you compare Vienna to Graz.. it's worse here in Graz.

DJ: So with your labels, are you going to try to make a statement with each record?
C: yes, of course..
D: yes, like on Widerstand 3 there is a microchip on one label.. this refers to everyone having microchips injected into them in the future.. it's something I believe will happen. I think everything should have a message. On Silent Revolution 1 I took the image on the back label from a Communist revolution poster, if you don't know it's from the communists, you might think it's facist because of the lettering used.. so we made sure to put "FUCK FACISM" on the insert card.

DJ: What do you think of speedcore and gabber right now?
C: erm... only important thing is the quality. Anybody that thinks that speedcore represents them, then that's OK. But, you can hear the difference in any record... that.. um..
D: the producer just does a record off the top of his head or something.. Um, i think for me it seems Speedcore is becoming as popular as Gabber was.. like the old Dutch gabber stuff.. when it gets bigger and bigger.. the quality does not remain the same.. this will probably happen to speedcore.. in another sense.. just doing the same thing..

DJ: and only sampling from each other, which they do already..
D: for me, if I buy records i like it to have something new in it.

DJ: What do you think of techno labels that seem to not really have a message behind their music? Not necessarily that they only make party music but they don't really make much of a statement...?
D: like normal techno labels and such? Yeah.. it's almost like the whole rock business before.. Trance to Pop and it's the same.

DJ: when you perform live, do you perform seperately or together..?
D/C: seperately..
C: We have totally different styles. I would play a track and then Daniel would play one.
D: If we realize a tour next year, we like to do maybe 2 parts.. perhaps with a good MC and such..

DJ: you were telling me earlier you wanted to get a death metal MC to do something for a record of yours..
D: yes, for me..
C: I just want to do some suicide music.. i don't wanna have some death metal emcee.. too.. erm...
D:.. too harsh. I really like harsh stuff .. so for me it's very cool. Confronting them and shocking them in a way.

DJ: So your styles are pretty different. (to Christoph): so what's your approach to doing music, is it less harsh, more something else?
C: Erm.. with extremly hard breaks and (harsh) spoken samples.
D: It's more industrial like..
C: No! not like that..
D: yes it is.. it sounds like a machine.
C: well, I like machines. Um, I can describe my songs better in German! I think..

DJ: do you use any actual machines.. ?(industrial equipment)
C: yeah, I use a lot of metal plates to sample.. a hammer for a bass drum. I sample everything.

DJ: Have you ever worked on a track together?
C/D: No... not really...
D: At the beginning we wanted to.. but we have totally different styles.

DJ: So on Silent Revolution would you release a noise or metal band on the label?
D: yes.. maybe if we can get contact with them!

DJ: Do you work with other people from around Graz?
C: Yes.. Widerstand 4 is by a local guy.. it's ambient.. very dark. (After checking out the episode of Faces of Death which the Heroin record will be based on, there was only one question left)