Terranova: Mastermind Fetisch on Hitchhiking Electro Music
Author: Jonty Adderley
Saturday, October 19, 2002
Flying in to London to promote the record recently was Fetisch and co-producer Meister, though chatting in a Hilton hotel bar it was Mastermind who dominated conversation, both with Skrufff and with a bemused looking Meister, who ended up saying virtually nothing. Skrufff's Jonty Adderley started things off.
Skrufff: Why did you call the album "Hitch-hiking Nonstop With No Particular Destination"-
Terranova: "It's about free movement, so you don't have to find a parking space, you're free to travel in any direction. We didn't sit there for ages thinking about it though, it just sounded good. Musically, it's just the type of music we're doing right now; we picked 12 tracks and stuck them on the album. We started with about 80 tracks and remixes all together, though we're also putting out a remix album."
Skrufff: Certain sections of the media are suggestion rock dance crossovers are the next big thing, with music like Arthur Baker's-
Terranova: "I met Arthur recently, about two months ago, we had dinner. He's a nice guy, he was out in Berlin with New Order so we hooked up. But we don't work towards the media, we do our own music and like to be open to any ideas and sounds- there's no concept, we're not going 'let's use guitars'. We just make the music and don't really think about it. We kick something off and a tune takes on a life of its own. We're just there to finish the picture and serve the music. It's like building a house, you lay the foundations, make the walls then you need to add a roof."
Skrufff: There's three core members in the group, who does what exactly-
Terranova: "We all do everything except I don't play guitar. And I'm a DJ and they're not. There's actually five of us now actually. We all f**k around individually then meet up and exchange ideas and maybe add things. Three of us did this record but the other two are involved with my publishing company. We've also got a guy who used to engineer for DJ Hell. We're developing into a community."
Skrufff: How closely are you connected with Hell-
Terranova: "I'm just doing a single on his label Gigolo called the Logic, we're good friends. He always plays my shit (music) and I play his."
Skrufff: What's this club like the Pogo-
Terranova: "A friend of mine started it with me and I remember the first night I played there was on a Monday night after Love Parade 2000. It was excellent, because Fischerspooner performed their original show which involved 25 people getting dressed over three hours. You could go into their dressing room, which was like a hall and they played in a tiny glass house. Their whole show was themed around the idea of making the backstage area accessible to the audience and it was excellent. That was mind-blowing to me, and changed a lot of things; it was like Kiss and Abba rolled into one. I DJed after that and I started playing stuff like Suicide and Black Sabbath alongside Juan Atkins and it really worked. The club took off with that sound."
Skrufff: Berlin's still dominated by the Love Parade, what's your take on the event-
Terranova: "I never go to the parade itself, a friend of mine (Dr Motte) started it on the main shopping street and for the first year there were just 50 people. I think it's amazing the way it's developed, into such a force with such an energy, gathering people from everywhere. Obviously, it's hard to handle walking down the streets with all those kids out of their minds on ecstasy but there are lots of parties around town. The Love parade is a people's thing rather than just industry. The main Tags