Q: Right now, I'd like to ask you guys a question involving your past but that leads into your present. Some of your fans of your previous project, KMDFM, will want to draw a comparison between your previous style and your new style of MDFMK. And I quote from the inner sleeve of your forthcoming release, MDFMK: similar to their previous incarnation, the music is tenacious, the subject matter is real, and the effect is powerful. Now, how similar are you, in your opinion, to your previous incarnation as KMFDM, or how dissimilar are you, and what does this mean on your inner sleeve?

T: It's just some sort of little text blurb that the labels put on the advance copies only. That is not something that's going out to the general public, so there's not really much need to talk about that. That's just like to educate people as to what they're looking at here. We would not by no means, you know, deny the fact that this is kinda like KMFDM backwards, but that's about it.

S: I mean there's no way we can hide from the continuation, nor would we want to, you know? We're proud of what we've done and we're proud to be able to continue it into a whole new realm. I mean, fifteen years of being KMFDM, fifteen years of having the same artwork, fifteen years of having revolving cast members become, you know, really redundant at that point. I met Tim Skold and he joined KMFDM for the Symbols tour and then Tim and I worked on the Adios album together. And at that point it was very clear that we had a future beyond KMFDM. There were aspects of him and I working on the music that I could not have found in the confines of KMFDM at that point. So, really, changing the name, changing the outlook, getting rid of fifteen years of expectations and continuity, that was the way to go. And then, at some point, we had a bunch of tracks written for our new project, MDFMK, and we needed to take this to the next level, it just happened very organically.

Q: So, you and Tim have actually worked in the past together on projects such as KMFDM, now you Lucia, it's your turn now, have you worked in the past as well with Tim or with Sascha or is this the first time working with them formally as MDFMK?

L: I cannot stake any claims on the KMFDM legacy, no. I did work with Sascha in the past. He worked with me and my band, my former band Drill, he did a remix for us for the Empire Records soundtrack, and that's how we met, initially, and then we kinda lost touch for a while, and later reconnected for this project. And it's very exciting to be part of it, we're starting a new legacy.

Q: Now, I would like to ask all of you this question. How do you feel that your work now, as MDFMK, is unique to anything that you've ever done in the past, together or otherwise?

T: It seemed pretty obvious as we were working on the last KMDFM record, me and Sascha realized that what we were doing was different, based on what we had done before. To call it KMFDM would be wrong, and to call it something totally different would also be wrong, and sothere you have the name, MDFMK.

L: And there's new elements added to it--

S: And it's a very KMDFMish thing to do, to just reverse the letters.

Q: Make them all small instead of capital.

S: Yeah, it kinda topped it all off that way.

Q: Sascha, this next question is for you. How do you feel that your previous brash or obnoxious, persay, imagery of KMDFM will affect your efforts to create a new style and/or image as MDFMK?

S: You refer to KMDFM as having an obnoxious image, I would probably want to find out what exactly you mean with obnoxious. I would probably rather say that KMFDM was renowned for a certain staunch kind of taking position on certain aspects of the music industry, of general rip-offs, of the general patronization of people, etc, etc, and so forth. I don't think KMDFM was an obnoxious thing, I think that is something hopefully that MDFMK will become.

Q: Oh yeah? You want to become an obnoxious type of band?

S: Be obnoxious! (not really sure what he says)

Q: No, no, really, to be honest, I was thinking of your Money video when I said that. And I was thinking of the obnoxious corvette looking car, the fur, the girls and everything.

S: First of all, that's more menacing, and like really funny tongue-in-cheek and stuff. KMFDM has never made anything secret out of it. KMFDM was like a stomping ground for people to have a lot of fun, and just try out stuff and experiment.

T: What we do is not generic simple stuff intended for the masses, it's gonna be some stuff that's tricky to find out, tricky to figure out, tricky just overall. And it's gonna be misinterpreted but that's just the way it goes.

Q: Right now, I'd like to ask you directly, Lucia, if you don't mind telling our listeners, and elaborating about these news elements which have been incorporated in this new album.

L: Tim originally had his project, the Skold project, and Shotgun Messiah. I come from Drill, so Sascha is working with two people that have different influences and bring something new to the party. So obviously, the sound is gonna take a new shape, and I think that it has, it has taken a new shape.

S: The way it looks to me, what is kinda like the new part of it is in KMFDM I got really, really lonely and used to being just there the only one that really worked all the time. Not to downplay contributions, but at best I was surrounded by a few musicians. Where now I'm surrounded by a few radical elements. And that's really putting a whole new twist to it. There's stuff happening that just couldn't happen any other way.

Q: Do you guys, Lucia and Tim, like being referred to as radical elements?

L: Actually, we don't mind it, it's very exciting. Mysterious!

T: If we thought there was something wrong with that, we'd be objecting by now.

Q: I want to get into the actual technical part of the music. For example, Control, now that is a song to me that has a lot of very forward sounding, like drum and bass, actually, percussion in it. It's very techno oriented more in a danceable way than, say, another song like your single, Rabble Rouser, which is gonna be coming out very soon.

T: Yeah, sure we like to span the gamut. I mean, one thing with MDFMK is that we don't have a clear-cut format or a realm that we have to fit into or measure up to. We can do pretty much whatever the hell we want to. And sorry about the hell there, but I think that's kosher.

Q: Yeah yeah, you can say hell.

T: HELL! And it is a very diverse record that way.

S: If you think about it, if you had to pinpoint who came up with the chorus to Rabble Rouser, you would think that's a very KMDFMish kind of thing, right?

Q: Well, not really, actually. I was thinking when I saw MDFMK I was thinking it was more like completely different but when I listened to the music some elements of course reminded me of certain elements that you guys had practiced before. But definately your combination is gonna give listeners out there a new taste of what you guys still have to produce. Like what's out there in your artistic brains that you haven't spilled out yet.

S: Right, the funniest thing about this record, though, is that you would go and sit down, listen to it and say alright, here's Tim's influence, here's Lucia's, and here's Sascha's, you'd be wrong, pretty much 99 out of 100 times. And that's, for me, the fun part. It is unpredictable in a way, the way we work, the three of us work, to me looks like it's completely unpredictable. You never know what comes from it, you never know what happens, and that's really the best element of it.

Q: Is that gonna continue in your live show? You're planning on touring, right?

S: Oh yeah.

Q: Okay, good. Can you tell our listeners out there to expect the unpredictable in your live shows?

S: Expect the impossible. (laughs)

T: I wish we could actually talk details to you, but we can't at this point. We can say this much: without hyping, and without being overblown, I can say if we're able to pull off what we want to, you're gonna see a show that you've never seen before. It'll be the ticket.

Transcribed by JoshBot