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1996-06-13 22:35Alex Ageyev (idm) Interview with Can (Khan?!) Oral
1996-06-13 22:36Alex Ageyev (idm) Interview with Can (Khan?!) Oral
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1996-06-13 22:35Alex AgeyevHere is the interview which was taken in NYC a little less than a year ago. Interview with
From:
Alex Ageyev
To:
IDM
Date:
13 Jun 96 18:35:04 EDT
Subject:
(idm) Interview with Can (Khan?!) Oral
permalink · <960613223504_71543.456_EHL130-1@CompuServe.COM>
Here is the interview which was taken in NYC a little less than a year ago. Interview with Can Oral,the head of Temple rec./DJungle Fever. A founder of Global Electronic Network, also known as Bizz O.D and Gizz TV.
quoted 1 line Alex Aeyev>Alex Aeyev
---Can Oral
quoted 1 line When was your label found,and where?>When was your label found,and where?
---Ok,the store was open October 1994 and the first Temple record came out in the beggining of 1995,it took us few months to get the store going,and then we had some money,we started producing records,and the first is CUBE40 which is Jammin Unit from Air Liquid and myself.And you know,it is a funky acid sort of record.
quoted 1 line Tell me more about your artists?>Tell me more about your artists?
----So far we have 4 releases on Temple Rec,no 1 is CUBE40,no2 is Black One,it is two guys from Cologne(Germany),no 3. the record I did,there is only one copy which is in Australia,it was sold for over $500,it was on the auction.It is a picture disk,it is one-off record,it is one side,and the other is just a picture.
quoted 1 line Where are your artists from?>Where are your artists from?
-They are friends of mine --pretty much ,so far.They are from Germany,some of them are from NY,from America,like I work with Tomadry he is from Plus 8 Rec. it is in Toronto,Canada.
quoted 1 line What were you doing before you organized a record label?>What were you doing before you organized a record label?
--I was spending my money in New York,i was doing like all kinds of things,i made few soundtracks in Germany it was like 4-5 years ago,and the money I made with that soundtracks,i moved to NY and just spent it in two years.i was recording tracks,and I did a few films.
quoted 1 line What made you move from Germany,where electronic music is more popular to>What made you move from Germany,where electronic music is more popular to
NYC,where it is much more harder to make electronic music? ---Yes,you know Germany is much bigger scene,you can earn money much easier,i could earn money,i mean I can play every weekend in a club,i can have tons of work,but I was kind of bored. Germany is a nice ,cute little country and I was just bored :cute and boring.I didnt really want to move to NY,but I stayed here for 4 years now.Sometimes I like ,sometimes I hate it.
quoted 1 line Is there anythign else in your label, except for the music?>Is there anythign else in your label, except for the music?
---No,no it is only about art and fun,you know life should be art,a art should be fun.
quoted 1 line Do you listen to Demo tapes?>Do you listen to Demo tapes?
---I dont really ask them,i dont really want them,but if someone gives me a Demo tape I ll listen to it.I know if I dont like I dont get back to them,because you know I didnt ask for the tape and I dont feel responsible for it. Do you usually offer to musicians to send you a Demo tape? ---No!I mean sure you can send me a tape it is cool,but you know I want to know people,music is a very private thing,usually tapes I get they are really awful,i dont want to be arrogant or something,but it is totally different direction,people think if Allright you are a label,so you do everything,but I am totally narrow,because I just want what I like.
quoted 1 line How would you rather describe the records,which you make?>How would you rather describe the records,which you make?
---On Temple Rec. it is very much in New York sound,it is a techno label,for me it sounds very much like NY style,it is a kind of tribally,and danceable.We do some other stuff like XXC3,which is a record label from Cologne,it is very expiremental, one of our editions it is called XXC3 Temple Records,it is just like noise anything weird crazy,expression of anything. (there is a new one out a great piece for every IDMers collection it is a collaboration beetween Can and Walker,yellow vinyl -A.A.)
quoted 1 line Looking into the electronic music evolution since Kraftwerk and,how do you>Looking into the electronic music evolution since Kraftwerk and,how do you
imagine to yourself electronic music development in the next few years? -----It is like different movement or different development,like after all these originatives like Kraftwerk and stuff,everything was pretty much like song and arrangment ,and all that was gone for a while,techno it was like no more harmony,there was a tradition,there was pretty much a beat,like measure 4/4,and I see one development which is going back,and I see one development which going further and further, for example: you can do a dance track you want people just dance to it,or you can do a real art.and that is what move todays music.
quoted 1 line Dont you afraid that electronic music would became very popular,like>Dont you afraid that electronic music would became very popular,like
alternative now.and all progressive would loose interest to it,because it will became a mainstream? ----It depends of what you do,if the music is interesting and it is an honest music,and it is allright with me if it will became mainstream, because I dont want to hear this crap on the radio.
quoted 1 line Dont you think that peple would get tired of it,if they will hear in every>Dont you think that peple would get tired of it,if they will hear in every
store and a radio station? -----Well it is a kind of very flexible,i mean it is already like this in Germany,that why I dont consider myself like techno anymore, it is just like electronic music,and it can go in any direction,i do disco stuff sometimes, all this BIZZ O.D. stuff is mostly disco,i call it disco music produced today, The Global Electronic Network,stuff I do it is more like concept thing.
quoted 1 line What other releases of Temple Rec. we will see in the nearest future?>What other releases of Temple Rec. we will see in the nearest future?
---The next Temple Rec. release is a Gizz TV, and Madonna 303 record,which is like hard acid,Madonna 303 are two guys:one from Berlin and one fron Cologne,and Gizz TV that is me,it is really hard tribal track,a very long one.
quoted 1 line Do you distribute your production somewhere outside the US?>Do you distribute your production somewhere outside the US?
---We distribute them only to France,to the people we know,it works so far,we are not making so many records you know.
quoted 1 line Is it still Underground?>Is it still Underground?
----Oh Yeah! It is very underground,whatever that means-haha!
1996-06-13 22:36Alex AgeyevHere is the fragment from interview which was taken in NYC a little less than a year ago.
From:
Alex Ageyev
To:
IDM
Date:
13 Jun 96 18:36:22 EDT
Subject:
(idm) Interview with Can (Khan?!) Oral
permalink · <960613223621_71543.456_EHL130-2@CompuServe.COM>
Here is the fragment from interview which was taken in NYC a little less than a year ago. for Ptuch Magazine, Moscow. Interview with Can Oral,the head of Temple rec./DJungle Fever. A founder of Global Electronic Network, also known as Bizz O.D and Gizz TV.
quoted 1 line Alex Aeyev>Alex Aeyev
---Can Oral
quoted 1 line When was your label found,and where?>When was your label found,and where?
---Ok,the store was open October 1994 and the first Temple record came out in the beggining of 1995,it took us few months to get the store going,and then we had some money,we started producing records,and the first is CUBE40 which is Jammin Unit from Air Liquid and myself.And you know,it is a funky acid sort of record.
quoted 1 line Tell me more about your artists?>Tell me more about your artists?
----So far we have 4 releases on Temple Rec,no 1 is CUBE40,no2 is Black One,it is two guys from Cologne(Germany),no 3. the record I did,there is only one copy which is in Australia,it was sold for over $500,it was on the auction.It is a picture disk,it is one-off record,it is one side,and the other is just a picture.
quoted 1 line Where are your artists from?>Where are your artists from?
-They are friends of mine --pretty much ,so far.They are from Germany,some of them are from NY,from America,like I work with Tomadry he is from Plus 8 Rec. it is in Toronto,Canada.
quoted 1 line What were you doing before you organized a record label?>What were you doing before you organized a record label?
--I was spending my money in New York,i was doing like all kinds of things,i made few soundtracks in Germany it was like 4-5 years ago,and the money I made with that soundtracks,i moved to NY and just spent it in two years.i was recording tracks,and I did a few films.
quoted 1 line What made you move from Germany,where electronic music is more popular to>What made you move from Germany,where electronic music is more popular to
NYC,where it is much more harder to make electronic music? ---Yes,you know Germany is much bigger scene,you can earn money much easier,i could earn money,i mean I can play every weekend in a club,i can have tons of work,but I was kind of bored. Germany is a nice ,cute little country and I was just bored :cute and boring.I didnt really want to move to NY,but I stayed here for 4 years now.Sometimes I like ,sometimes I hate it.
quoted 1 line Is there anythign else in your label, except for the music?>Is there anythign else in your label, except for the music?
---No,no it is only about art and fun,you know life should be art,a art should be fun.
quoted 1 line Do you listen to Demo tapes?>Do you listen to Demo tapes?
---I dont really ask them,i dont really want them,but if someone gives me a Demo tape I ll listen to it.I know if I dont like I dont get back to them,because you know I didnt ask for the tape and I dont feel responsible for it. Do you usually offer to musicians to send you a Demo tape? ---No!I mean sure you can send me a tape it is cool,but you know I want to know people,music is a very private thing,usually tapes I get they are really awful,i dont want to be arrogant or something,but it is totally different direction,people think if Allright you are a label,so you do everything,but I am totally narrow,because I just want what I like.
quoted 1 line How would you rather describe the records,which you make?>How would you rather describe the records,which you make?
---On Temple Rec. it is very much in New York sound,it is a techno label,for me it sounds very much like NY style,it is a kind of tribally,and danceable.We do some other stuff like XXC3,which is a record label from Cologne,it is very expiremental, one of our editions it is called XXC3 Temple Records,it is just like noise anything weird crazy,expression of anything. (there is a new one out a great piece for every IDMers collection it is a collaboration beetween Can and Walker,yellow vinyl -A.A.)
quoted 1 line Looking into the electronic music evolution since Kraftwerk and,how do you>Looking into the electronic music evolution since Kraftwerk and,how do you
imagine to yourself electronic music development in the next few years? -----It is like different movement or different development,like after all these originatives like Kraftwerk and stuff,everything was pretty much like song and arrangment ,and all that was gone for a while,techno it was like no more harmony,there was a tradition,there was pretty much a beat,like measure 4/4,and I see one development which is going back,and I see one development which going further and further, for example: you can do a dance track you want people just dance to it,or you can do a real art.and that is what move todays music.
quoted 1 line Dont you afraid that electronic music would became very popular,like>Dont you afraid that electronic music would became very popular,like
alternative now.and all progressive would loose interest to it,because it will became a mainstream? ----It depends of what you do,if the music is interesting and it is an honest music,and it is allright with me if it will became mainstream, because I dont want to hear this crap on the radio.
quoted 1 line Dont you think that peple would get tired of it,if they will hear in every>Dont you think that peple would get tired of it,if they will hear in every
store and a radio station? -----Well it is a kind of very flexible,i mean it is already like this in Germany,that why I dont consider myself like techno anymore, it is just like electronic music,and it can go in any direction,i do disco stuff sometimes, all this BIZZ O.D. stuff is mostly disco,i call it disco music produced today, The Global Electronic Network,stuff I do it is more like concept thing.
quoted 1 line What other releases of Temple Rec. we will see in the nearest future?>What other releases of Temple Rec. we will see in the nearest future?
---The next Temple Rec. release is a Gizz TV, and Madonna 303 record,which is like hard acid,Madonna 303 are two guys:one from Berlin and one fron Cologne,and Gizz TV that is me,it is really hard tribal track,a very long one.
quoted 1 line Do you distribute your production somewhere outside the US?>Do you distribute your production somewhere outside the US?
---We distribute them only to France,to the people we know,it works so far,we are not making so many records you know.
quoted 1 line Is it still Underground?>Is it still Underground?
----Oh Yeah! It is very underground,whatever that means-haha!