It's been five years since your last album on Wonder. What have you been up to in the meantime?
We produced the soundtrack for the movie
Durchfahrtsland, and we worked on solo projects: Thomas as Solyst, Andreas as April and BadFrench (with Kiki Moorse/Chicks On Speed), Detlef as Tolouse Low Trax and he is running a club in Düsseldorf called
Salon des Amateurs, where he is responsible for the musical/artistic program. Also we've been DJing a lot.
What can listeners expect from Mosaik 2014?
Sequences, rhythms, percussion, melodies and a massive groove.
How did the hook up with Italic come about?
We've known Marc Knauer since the beginning of Kreidler. He released our 7-inch called Kookaï in 1995, and in 1997 the
Re-Sport EP on his Stewardess imprint, which later became Italic. Good old Düsseldorf connections and friendship.
Is there much live instrumentation on the new record?
Synths, sampler, FX, bass, percussion and drums - all recorded live, then mixed in the computer.
What music have you guys been listening to lately, and has that influenced the new material?
Many different genres, like always. Maybe a bit focused on a special kind of club music - not like the usual or mainstream idea of the dance floor as an instrument of exclusion and expulsion, but as a come-together. From selected independent stuff – let's say danceable or dandy – to ethnic African music, from German styles of the '70s and '80s to European disco.