Planetdamage

Planetdamage:  Before telling you about Aether Pilot, I’d love to reveal two things about this release – all remixers were asked to pick the song they most resonated with and that I picked artists who could definitely bring another different facet of cyberpunk to the release, as there are so many different scenarios about our dystopia and I really wanted to have a good variety of those.
Planetdamage:  Oh, it’s become a lot more grittier and more 90’s electro-industrial-ish, in terms of mood and sound, reminds me of how old-school Mentallo tracks just go on for long minutes and doesn’t ever get boring, instead it’s like, "Oh, he just hit the hacker soundtrack vibe so surgically let me play 'Uplink' just listening to this." 


Planetdamage:  A lot of unexpected cuts and changes, it’s an amazing example of the 15 puzzle in industrial music, like, how can you rearrange a track in a way that it’s instantly recognizable but the mood and the arrangement completely warps into something else. It’s gotten quite gritty!
Planetdamage:  Yeah there’s a story there alright! I’m a great fan of Brian Graupner’s (of The Gothsicles) show Space Couch and seeing Freeze Etch on the Couch was a great thing, as he was involved with Tympanik Records a few years back, a label whose output I really associated with cyberpunk, started listening to his album "All Context Vanishes", started talking and I was wondering whether he would add his mojo to a remix and he did. I might have mentioned this a couple of times but it definitely is one of the best soundtracks for driving by a lake at 3AM with a very good 90’s / Underworldish vibe.
Planetdamage:  Well, when it comes to Brian, you know he’s going to have fun with the track he’s working on and he definitely did. I was laughing through the whole track, I was expecting he’s gonna mangle the track but I didn’t expect he’s gonna show us how drunk military drones are using this as a pub chant. 
Planetdamage:  Oh yes, this is very old-school and as I was listening to FLA’s early materials at the time when I first heard the final version, I definitely connected with it. Loved how raw and elemental it sounds, definitely calling it tactical combat EBM. I loved the drums but I also love how much in-your-face it’s become. 

Planetdamage:  Vandalaze is the neon hotpot of the 80’s and 90’s pop-culture, I can never ever decide properly what I’m hearing when I’m listening to his materials, which is a good sign – sometimes it’s electronic music close to early Skinny Puppy, sometimes there’s elements of funk, sometimes it’s tech-art-pop but he always pushes the boundaries a lot and he did bring a lot of tension and nuanced trickeries to 'Firewalls'. I know he likes to call his style mutoid, so I guess it’s safe to call this mutoid techno.
Planetdamage:  Well, ‘Tensor’ was a finished track by the time the album tracks were completed but when I was considering how to set up the track order so that I could mix the tracks together, the best idea seemed to be using the intro pads only. I wanted to release this in its entirety, though, I thought it’s a mood pretty similar to how Gibson’s “Burning Chrome” starts.
Planetdamage:  There’s going to be a Lovecraft-related collab with Brian of The Gothsicles this year. I do have a few remixes I made for awesome artists that will see the daylight this year and of course there are some new track ideas that I am working on. Sharing all the new bits on Facebook and Instagram about these, so make sure to follow these two feeds!
Planetdamage:  No no no, thank you! I’d really love to say thank you to all the remixers who gave very different characters and faces and interpretations to the songs, to all the DJ’s / podcasters sharing these songs and of course the listeners who stomp to these – with Brutal Resonance being the amplifier to these messages! YOU ALL ROCK!