OCTOLAB
What did you attract in making electronic music?
In the end of 70-number, me and my buddy sat and played with lego in our boys room,
when suddenly the song "the robots" was played on the radio. I guess that you could say
that it was after that I developed a fetish to the electronic music.
You played before OctoLab in several other bands, what did you do exactly before OctoLab?
It started with the EBM-oldschool band Presto Fervant in 1988 and we did a number of
live preformance, there among on Hultsfreds-festivalen 1992 that was/is Swedens biggest
festival. We did a self financed disc ( divided with a other band) that republished 2006 on
a German label Electric Tremore.
Cosmic Dog was my second band. Made one song that appears on the compilation Circuit
One in 1994.
Novelty was one of the more serious band in my career. Released a record in 1997 on the
label Synthphony Records. We did a few gigs and performed live in Swedish television.
In 1999 took our palmy days end and the other two members began cultivate children
instead :).
Spektron was a synthpop band who also had a few gigs and a little radio preforming.
But it's hard to go forward when four have one's own way to go :) in the end of Spektron two
of these will's resulted in todays OctoLab.
Is OctoLab still a side project or can we see it as your main band these days?
No it's definitely our main band now!
What are the main influences for OctoLab?
I grew up listening to 80's music, that contained bands like Alphaville and Depeche Mode
one of the factors which contributed to my inspiration, but I have to say that Kraftwerk is
the biggest source of inspiration. Of course there is alot of other things below the years
that have matter to us. I also believe personal chemistry play a decisive role to future
developments. We both have a very nice collaboration and that is very important.
How would you describe Octolab's music?
Synthmusic vs video game and horror movies in a cheerful atmosphere.... We are both very
open minded to alots of different musicstyles, so the mixture of everything results in Octolab,
offcourse it sounds very electronic. ( If "the robots" had been played with different instruments
I don't know how OctoLab should have sounded... hahaha).
You share a house with Arielle, guess you are making music around the clock,
does it take you a long time to finish a song?
Thats very hard to say. When everything falls in it's place it's about 2-4 weeks.
