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softfokus wrote:big thanks! I was just going through reading some of these old interviews, and so it's good timing to see new ones translated right when I'm finishing up a lot of the older ones.

F.P.: How do you envision the future?
Mike: Music forever.

When you play in a band with a singer, it's harder to write songs with weird themes because the singer would probably look a bit ridiculous going on stage to sing lyrics about, for example, black holes or time travel. As an instrumental band, we can tackle stranger ideas because instrumental music leaves more room for the listener's imagination to decide what the music is about, what it refers to, what it can accompany. This allows us to be more abstract or surreal...