Thank you very much for your time! Before we introduce your new release to our readers – what kind of drink would you recommend to sip on while they listen to your new music?
An espresso martini. The perfect balance between depressant and stimulant – it feels oddly appropriate for this album.
Please give us an update – new single, new album, tour dates, new videos?!
The album has just been released, and we’re very happy it’s finally out in the world. It’s been a big project and something we’ve put a lot of love into. There are still a number of amazing music videos coming over the next few months, as well as some reinterpretations of our songs by artists we admire. And finally, we’re also starting to lock in the first live shows – 2026 is shaping up to be very exciting.
Name 5 things we all should know about you as a band
Before this project, we toured the world as DJs and played fairly heavy rave music
We’re both from Germany but somehow ended up living and working between the UK and Australia.
We’ve been friends for over 20 years, and our relationship sometimes resembles that of a cranky old couple
We both love our dogs more than we love people
We each have an awkward, framed picture of the other hanging in our respective studios
What fashion style or brand would best describe your music?
Minimalist on the surface, but maximalist once you step inside. We’re drawn to things that appear simple at first glance, yet open up into a rabbit hole of detail and discovery the longer you engage with them. As a small nod to our southern German heritage – and our shared appreciation for understatement paired with precision – we’ll say Hugo Boss.
We live in times of many conspiracy theories. Which harmless theory would you wish were true?
That pigeons aren’t real – they’re outdated public surveillance devices that stopped receiving software updates sometime in the early 2000s. Now that you’ve asked, it feels like we should’ve added at least one song dedicated to that theory on the album.
If you could change anything about the industry, what would it be?
We’d love to see less emphasis on fitting in and more encouragement to make what you genuinely care about. There’s a lot of music driven by “this works, so we need more of this,” and it tends to flatten creativity. Art becomes far more interesting when people feel supported in taking risks and following their instincts rather than chasing formulas.
Tell us more about your songs – topics, message, ideas
Sonically, our music sits somewhere between electronic music, neoclassical composition, and film scores. We work exclusively with synths and deliberately avoid drums, which forces us to rely on melody, texture, and arrangement to create tension. By restricting ourselves in that way, every sound has to carry emotional weight on its own.
Just like the music itself, the album is fundamentally concept-driven. Protomensch revolves around the idea of the human as an unfinished experiment – an idiotic genius, hyper-intelligent and technologically advanced, yet emotionally fragile, irrational, and often self-destructive. We also wrote a manifesto alongside the music that helped frame the ideas we wanted to explore and gave the songs a shared emotional and conceptual direction, without spelling everything out.
A question you’d like to answer, but have never been asked in an interview before?!
Have you two ever been mistaken for a couple?“
„All the time. And at this point we’ve honestly made it worse for ourselves – framed photos of each other in our studios, a 20-year relationship, a joint announcement saying ‚the two dads gave birth to their love child. We’ve basically built an airtight case. Our actual partners have accepted their supporting roles.
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