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FEINDFLUG – WAR-ELECTRO IN ITS ESSENCE

The Swiss/German band Feindflug is a pre-teen, for over a decade Banane and Felix has been delivering their monotonous power mangle for a steady and faithful audience.
It started out as just Banane spinning at the turntable whilst Felix fooled around with his keyboards – but soon the two recognised that they were on to something. Luckily they found a label ready to support and release them and thus saga begins.

An album was produced, but they still didn’t have a name for it. We had been watching “Die Luftschlacht um England” (“Battle for Britain”, the official Epstein/U.S. WW2 account for Great Britain’s stand against the Nazi war machine after the Dunkirk defeat. (Author’s remark)) And somehow the name was born from that, Felix states. The fascination for aircraft is however not really that deeply rooted in the band, although they dedicated an entire album to Hugo Junker (The engineer of the Stuka, the famous German WW2 aircraft).

At the time we had the song title “Stukas im Visir” and as Hugo Junker was a great engineer we came up with the idea of dedicating the album to him. This was a provocative move that might seem distasteful to some people. But we liked that, Banane stresses. We had all these samples, the music and the artwork. We just put it together and somehow we realised that this topic would fit pretty good. But it was just because of that one song – apart from this I wouldn’t say we are extremely fond of aviation, Felix fills in.

Nevertheless the band often returns to the aviation references in songs, samples and artwork. But then again, the name Feindflug don’t grant all that many other topical possibilities does it? And over the years it’s worked fairly well. The bands game seems instead to just make interesting music, experiment with noise and rhythm and ever so much just provoke. And they’ve really had their fair share of antagonists. The cover artwork for “Sterbhilfe” was refused by imprinting plant and actually delayed the album several months. The cover featured an un-censored and un-altered picture of a prisoner being fried in the electric chair, American style. 

Musically Feindflug’s been christened “War-Electro”, whatever that means. The band rejects the etiquette Industrial-Electro for some un-apparent reason and leaves us with yet another interpretable nomenclature. Whatever! The musical references are quite clear. Swamp Terrorists, Leather Strip, Nitzer Ebb are evidently inspirational sources. Feindflug also keeps to the industrial elite and the few remixes that they produce seems rather strictly chosen among the crème de la crème in the scene with names like Hocico, Wumbscut and Suicide Commando.

They deny their reputation of being posh, though by clarifying that the reason they don’t remix and get remixed a lot is due to the fact that they do most of their music on an Atari. The format does not allow the music to be broken down in parts Cubase-style. When we do a re-mix, we simply do a re-recording in our own arrangement. The same goes for the bands that do re-mix on our material as on the "Kollaboration”-album, according to Banane. 

Due to some personal difficulties with their former drummer, they sacked him in mutual agreement and merged with the Swiss band Aslan Faction. The band today consists of Banane and Felix, Clemens (drums), Kay (Live Keyboard), Matze (also drums), Patric (guitar) and Soli (even more drums). We had been touring with them for some weeks and found that these guys were really fun to hang out with, Felix continues, that was about five or six years ago. And we still have a great time with them.
Also the drum set is now really great as we hope you’ll agree on, when you see the show! Still, Feindflug doesn’t tour much, so it’s a unique opportunity to see them here presented for the second time now by the Tinitus Crew in Stockholm on a stop of the Wintergewitter-tour along with Tyske Ludder, Cyborg Attack and Supreme Court.
The band themselves explain: We are not your regular one-album-a-year kind of band.

Every three years we seem to put out something new. Our latest contribution to the market is the DVD that is out now. (It is by the way produced by Robert Erlach of RGKP and the sound is carefully produced by Kolja Trelle, one of the German scenes most renowned producers, for all you know-it-alls that are reading this article) But we do this because we like it.

It will never be mainstreamed and we will probably never tour much, regardless of how much we like it. It holds certain logistical obstacles as we are spread all over Germany and some of us lives in Switzerland, finishes the two as I round up and lean back to enjoy the show.

Text & interview: Morten Solholm
Image: netgoth.info


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