Featuring i.Gor of BIOCARBON13 | Interview by Ruud Dreessen aka ebm-industrial. nl | 19-December 2008

Thanks i.Gor that you have found time to give answers to these questions Why did you come about starting BIOCARBON13?
I came out of retirement. A few years prior I stopped playing music because I became disenchanted with playing in a live band. Technology was not at the point where I could play and create music on my own. When I sensed that computer based performances have gained acceptance and technology was available and affordable, I was back.

What inspires you to create?
Music is my therapy. I use it to vent my emotions and to share my feelings. Mostly negative, I feel better venting the negative emotions into my music then to take it out on people around me.

Tell me about your albums: UVN, Cheese Ball, Igorist, Father’s Song and Escape from Happiness?
All of them are experiments; all of them contain a social commentary. I try to approach each album in a different way from the previous one. UVN is the most aggressive of the bunch. Cheese Ball is a bit more synthpop, whilst Igorist and Father’s Song are kind of hybrids of synthpop and a death rock feel. Escape from Happiness was my 1st album and I experimented with use of preset percussions overlaid with BC13 music. To explain BC13 music is not easy because it depend on what I feel when I’m writing at that given time.

Can you give us some insight into the beginnings of BIOCARBON13 a musical project? How did it initially come to be? Can you give me an introduction to BIOCARBON13?
BIOCARBON13 is an experiment from start to finish.There is no particular adherence to any given form or style.I try to write what sounds and feels good to me with hope of my work to resonate in souls and minds of my listeners.

BIOCARBON13 came to be when I came out of retirement and technology caught up with my ideas.I also find inspiration in collaboration with other artists.over all, BC13’s music ended up being influenced by the time we live in and the people that I work with.

BIOCARBON13 is a member of a new generation of electro- industrial bands, projecting sounds influenced by a wide range of sounds of electronic music from synthpop to EBM and power noise. 

Can you tell us bit more about the musical projects and bands you were involved with prior to BIOCARBON13?
From the early 80’s I used to play in punk and death rock bands in Kansas City,Los Angeles and Chicago.I took a break and went to back to college, but obviously I could not stay away from music.