Yacopsae Interview 1. How's the band now? Could you tell us more about the future for the band? We are still Emu (Drums), Stoffel (Guitars and Vocals) and Frank (Bass). Currently we are making new songs for some splits and other freak stuff, which should come out in 2003. And we are going to re-launch the website with graphics and a HUGE amount of downloadable stuff. The future plans are to play gigs outside of Europe (USA, Japan and Brazil) and to release our third full-length album in late 2003. 2. What happened why your drummer left the band, do you have already new drummer as of now? ????????? You are right that this interview for YACOEPSAE ?? (sorry! - I think this questions not for you!) We changed our drummer in 1993 for the last time as far as I know.... :) 3. How's your recording for NO ESCAPE RECORDS and 625 PRODUCTION. is this a contract or just an idea to release songs for the said label. ?????????????? Really ?? You know more than I know. (he, he, he� sorry again! Wrong question!) 4.OK, tell us about some of your records from other Label. We had a CD on Slap a Ham, but that's all we did in the USA so far. The split 10" with ROT is going to be re-released from Nuclear BBQ Records. That's all I know of so far... 5. Can you tell us the music you play and type of lyrics you write. What is most important to you, lyrics or music? And it's look like most of the lyrics you write is in German. Is there any difficulty to write in English or what...? The music is fastcore with very meaningful lyrics all written by Stoffel. Both is very meaningful for us, the lyrics have to be in German, because we cannot write such deep going lyrics in English. We don't have the typical style of punk lyrics like Sex, Drugs and Alcohol, they are sometimes written like poems you cannot translate into another language without losing it's sense. We tried to translate some songs into English but even a professional translator Stoffel knows very good failed in doing it, so... Learn German :) 6. Do you have any religion? What can you say about Jesus Christ or any religious gods? In our opinion, there are no "gods" and therefore there should be no religions, because religions are the worst type of manipulating the opinion and minds of human people to serve their ways of life. We would have NO big wars on earth, because fighting for territory should be out of time except some assholes that don't get the meaning of being free in this world. Sorry, but I can't express my feelings in English but I think you got the meaning. 7. How many often you play in gig? Do you been experience already to be ripped off by some organizer. We play about 20-30 gigs a year. We had some very bad experience so far, but we don't care about it anymore. We just avoid places who are fucking bullshit and persons who invite us just because we are sooooo fast and to impress his or her friends. I cannot tell all the stories here, this would be too much, but as you can bet, there was some distortion between us and some places or persons.... :) 8. Have you ever already been tour in other country. Tell us your latest tour! Of course, we played in Holland, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovenia and Sweden. Our latest tour was in April where we visited France and Italy for the first and definitely NOT for the last time... 9. Besides to your band what do you do. Is anyone of you have their own family already? Yes, Frank has a wife and one little boy. And in December he gets his second child. Emu and Stoffel only have girlfriends and HATE being married and having children, because it's so "normal". 10. Do you listen noise music (industrial, experimental, harsh, electronic, etc.). What can you say about people doing this or your view about this. This is a free world. Everyone can do whatever he or she likes. I personally like music with heavy distorted bass and guitar, fast drums and breaks. And I like chaotic stuff with distortions and all that weird stuff. Drum machines can be funny, but only when they are insanely fast. I don't like the usage of synthesizers and other computer-stuff except for making FEW effects and of course for recording the whole crap. So, my faves are bands, which make music with sweat AND the usage of their brains. I played in a noise band (Tumor) back in 1995, but even if this was pure noise, we made the songs before we recorded them, it was not only pure noise like so many bands in those years.... And of course, we all love Pop-Punk like Weezer and other combos, because it mixes lovely tunes and lyrics with hard guitars and nice riffs. But recently I don't listen much music, because I have a lot of work to do and no time to put on a record. 11. If you like what is your fave noise band and what type of noise? Also some other type of band who inspired you a lot, reason that why you are here? Hmm, like I said in question 10, really noise was THE GEROGEREGEGEGE and early Anal Cunt stuffs, but nowadays there is no really fucked up noise band anymore. They somehow got calm somehow, even if they still exist. But I'm not the music expert here in the band, I'm sorry... Inspiration.... Hmm, we were inspired by old German punk, first grindcore like Napalm Death, Metal and of course fast (hehe... 10 years ago it was very fast) hardcore like D.R.I. So without the bands from 1982-1993 we would not be here. But that is no reason to hype this influence as THRASHCORE... Do something new, guys... 12. How many releases do you have already. Could you tell us a short discography. Phhhh.. Nope. Just visit our Website WWW.YACOEPSAE.DE for info about the band. We have about 20 releases out on vinyl or CD and countless samplers and bootlegs. 13. I've seen in your site that you're planning to make a cover-CD for pop-tunes bands. What happened to this and could you tell us more about it. Yep, it's recorded and quite funny. We wanted to see if we can cover pop punk bands and I think we made it quite OK. And we made two songs of our own which have no or senseless lyrics this time. Maybe you can hear some of them soon, because we don't have someone to publish it right now. I won't tell too much here, because we are in the talks with the bands if we can use their stuff, because we covered it 100% and without improvisation. 14.1 it's look like you have a future split 7" with FUCK ON THE BEACH, could you tell us more about this and what do you think the difference on this project compare to other stuff you've done. The first thing is: It's LIVE (with three guys, we had a 7" with the old lineup, two). And it's our first release in Eastern Europe. That's all so far. It was not our idea to ask FOTB for it, but we like it to be on a split with a Japanese band, because we really would LOVE to play in Japan, but we have no contacts and no money... But time will tell and I hope that we still exist is 5-10 years to earn money for a Japan tour. :) 15. By the way, how easy/hard to make an agreement to your band if there's a label want to release your songs. What demands do you ask for... Do you paid for every song or just complimentary/free copies. And how many if they gave/paid? We have some very nice labels here in Germany who loves to put our stuff from us because we are so uncomplicated. We send the music, the artwork and receive some free copies. That's it. And, so far, they sell the stuff quite quickly because we have quite some fans around the world I think. So why not putting the stuff out here ??? The CD on Slap a Ham was our first release in overseas and was a nice experience. And maybe the next own LP/CD will be released on another US label but I won't tell the name not to piss someone off... We don't get paid for it and we even don't get the studio paid. So we need some stuff for sale on gigs or tours to get the money back we spent making the records. 16. last questions, who maintain your website? Me :) But we'll re-launch it in a few weeks with TONS of stuff for download and a huge amount of info about the releases, the gigs and about us in general. We currently have 75MB of web space but I don't think that it will fit into it, so we have to stock it up to 150MB with 15GB download limit per month. That should be enough. Stoffel said it would be the BEST website run by an underground band. We'll see. But ANYTHING is better then the recent page, which took 2 hours to make with MS Word. 17. I think that's for all now. tell us more... OK, this was my second interview and I hope that I answered the questions nicely. Thanks for your interest in our band and sorry if the answers are quite short, but I don't have so many time and I have not so much to say :) And don't forget to visit our website WWW.YACOEPSAE.DE and to see us live and meet us in person (we have more to say there...). THANKS !! contact: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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