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Interview with Ierich of Negligent Collateral Collapse (January 2005)

 

1)Ok, first what's up? What are you doing at the moment? What's the next thing NCC is about to do?

Hi Pierre... now, at the beginning of January 2005, it's releasing of a new split "Neurotransmitter", preparing for a new studio session, and at last, but not at least four crazy gigs - w/Inhumate (FR) on 15.1., w/Ahumado G. & Cerebral T. on 28.1., w/Permanent Death on 29.1. in Belgium/Diepenbeek and on 30.1. on Gorecity/Eindhoven with all the great bands as CBT, LDOH, Cliteater and long Czech caravan /AG, CT, Pigsty/. Well, enough work.

2)How would you describe NCC style and sound? Are you influenced by other bands while writing songs or is it just all from your own guts? By the way, your vocalist's voice is perhaps the closest thing to a pig I've ever heard coming from a human!

Thank you, I will report it to the stall, where our piggy Paul /vox/ lies and grunts.
It's difficult to describe a style, because we are still "evolving" to a bigger bugger, there is a room for a progression, I hope so, a huge large room for an advanced evolution furthermore.

3)Your latest release was "Paranormal Nanodivision"... That's your second full length after "Progress Segment Database Extender"... How was the listeners response on both of these? Can you say which of your releases you've been the most satisfied with personally? Do you actually listen to your own NCC music often personally?

First - I have to hear to my own music, when I practice... I still love it. I enjoy personally more RSDE than PARANANO, that's why, I was speaking about a room for further advancement.
And that's OK, we have still big goals...
Public? Some like our previous releases, some first cd, some second cd, somebody nothing, I know a man, who likes everything :)
What to say more? We keep on.

4)Ok, from what I understand I think you're using electronic drums for the recordings? But real drums on live sets? Why is that? Is it easier to record that way?

It has something with my work abroad. And my dreams as an electro engineer. I've completed my dreams and I have several drum sets, which I can use at home, with headphones, everything connected together, a complex inextricable web of cables, devices, e-drums, e-cymbals and another e-machines & silicon chips. A salad of devices. I love it. I've used it on several last recordings.
And live gigs? It's something totally different. A pure energy. Many friends. Alcohol. Would you really move all that equipment on a stage?
Yeah, maybe, in the future...
Continue in Question 5.

5)I've read somewhere NCC members lived pretty far from each other, is that right? How often do you rehearse together, how does the song writing and recording process really happens?

Besides I have to add, all my music activities I still perform with my Czech friends, they are a lot, although I live 4 years in Germany... I have no time to connect me to a local music band. Anyway we do also a little bit industrial with my friends, and normal big beat too, but I should better not unbosom this :)))
To your question: after ten years of existence we rehearse 1-2 times / month, but everybody plays, writes, records, mixes and masters also at home. Experiences exchanged. Live gigs welcomed as a binding agent.

6)What about live shows? How often do you play live? Do you enjoy it personally? Your next gig is that Gore Festival lined up for january 2005 in Holland, right? Did you already play outside czech republic before?

See answer #1. We've played several times in Germany, on such events as Morbide Festspiele or Fuck the Commerce.
I enjoy live performance a lot.

7)What does the band name Negligent Collateral Collapse means to you? Do you remember why you chose it originally?

It means...
... Inartificial Excessive Devolution!

Negligent Collateral Collapse
Discography
Upcoming (2005/2006):
-"Olap (Molap, Rolap)" Cd


"28 Minutes of Silence for all Innocent Victims"
MC


"Hungry Urinary Urn" Split 7" Ep w/ Catasexual Urge Motivation, C.S.S.O. & Malignant Tumour
(1997, Bizarre Leprous Productions)


"Spasm of Extinction" MC
(1997)


"Homologated Recycled 4d Hippies" MC
(1999)


"Feynman" 7" Ep
(2000)


"12 Stories in a Single Bound" Split Cd
( 2001, Bizarre Leprous Productions)


"Blue and White"
(2001)


"Reprocess Segment Database Extender" Cd
(2002, Obscene Productions)


"Czech Assault" Comp. Cd
(2002, Relapse Records)


"Obscene Extreme 2003" Cd/Dvd Comp.
(Obscene Productions)


"Paranormal Nanodivision" Cd
(2003, Obscene Productions)


"Neurotransmitter" Split Cd
(2004, Meat 5000 Records)

8)Your imagery and lyrics are all about science or very offbeat/humorous subjects, very unusual for the genre... I always wanted to hear a grind band dealing with mathemathics and stuff! Can you shed some light on why you write such lyrics? And do you actually understand what you're writing about?? Is any of it accurate at all? Do you already have an idea of what you'll write for your next lyrics? Your concept reminds of what Ingrowing did on "Cyberspace", what do you think of this album?

Lyrics are my speciality. I will show you something.

NCC exists 10 years... I will go from the historic point ten years ago till today through the lyrics:
1996 28 minutes of silence for all innocent victims
It's about the second world war from our, Czech specific point of view. As you likely know, to be a little nation between two supermachts is not everyday only a butter & honey. We were independent about thirty years in whole last century only. The rest of days were more or less a prison. But who knows, how was it grinded down. WWII is till today a nightmare of many people in (Central-)Europe. I think, you know, what I am speaking about...

1997 Spasm of Extinction
Extinction of all Species on this Planet? It could be a reality. I am not some fiery ecologist or green peace activist. But I reflect on such mournful things. The song titles are compelling: Gorilla Gorilla Beringei / Ursus Arctos Nelsoni / Monarchus Monarchus / Balanea Glacialis / Megadyptes Antipodes / Rhinoceros Unicornis / Dead Animal without Name / Asterochelys Yniphora / Crocodylus Acutus ....

1999 Homologated recycled 4D Hippies
Several very slow songs with gloomy atmosphere. About security hacks, computer failures and chemistry explosions.
Energy of nucleus

2000 Feynman
World famous physicist Richard F. has left us masterpieces. To read them is recommended! And my lyrics about a characteristics of the body:
RESURRECTION OF INTERNAL CIRCULATION, BODY APPLICATION AND HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM
;;============================
;; Application
;;============================
key "Human.Application" = "Human Nervous System" {
key "CLSID" = "{00020841-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
key "CurVer" = "Human.Application.Soul.666"
key "VersionIndependentHempProgID" = "Toxic.Application"
key "LocalServer" = "|shortdestdir|breathe.exe /pneumonia"
key "LocalServer" = "|shortdestdir|beat.exe /boosterheart"
}
;;============================
;; Modules
;;============================
key ".xlm" = "Body.HumanModule"
key "Body.HumanModule" = "white, torso, 1, hand, 2, leg, 2, head, 1" {
key "CLSID" = "{00020810-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
key "DefaultFace" = "|destdir|imagedataCLSID.exe,11"
} {grey eye, 2, long hair, 65 535, nose, 1, ear, 2, mouth, 1}

;;============================
;; DataSheet
;;============================
key ".xld" = "DataSheet.Brain.5"
; REVIEW: Create unique mapping for TABULA RASA prefs file?
key ".xls" = "Skull.Sheet.5"
key "CLSID" = "{00020810-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}"
key "InsertTabula"
key "criminalprotocol" {
key "StdFileEditing" {
key "nerver" = "|shortdestdir|brain.exe"
key "SetDataFormats" = "NotesDocInfo"
key "RequestDataFormats" = "NoteshNote"
key "Verb" {
key "0" = "&Fuck Cunt"
key "1" = "&E=mc2"
}
}
}
key "shell" = "open" {
key "New" = "cranium" {
key "command" = "|destdir|"you are motherfucker".exe /e"
"[new(\"%1\")]" {
key "topic" = "system"
}
}
; OLE698 compatibility
key "Ole698ClassL" = "Language English"
key "Ole698ClassSecondaryL" = "Jazyk ceský"
key "LocalID" = "Central Europe, Czech republic"

;;============================
;; MemorySpace
;;============================
key ".xlm" = "MemorySpace.Human"
key "0" = "0,8,FF00F9FF0000FFFF,0900000000001000"
key "1" = "0,8,FF00F9FF0000FFFF,0900000000004000"
key "2" = "0,8,FF00F9FF0000FFFF,0900000000000001"
key "3" = "0,8,FF00F9FF0000FFFF,0900000000002000"
current_user {
key noremove "Software" {
key noremove "Homo Sapiens Sapiens April 25 1999 AD 16:02:12,335254" {
key "Strenght" {
key forceremove "Full" {
local_machine {
key noremove "Software" {
key noremove "Homo Habilis" {
}
}
}
}
} ; General
} ; NFT
} ; FileNew
} ; Sapiens
} ; Habilis

} ; Universe
} ; local machine
} ; current user
; God

2001 Blue and White
About boundless traveling in the Universe.
The return way home /Blue & White, 2001/
On the return trip home
On the return trip home,
gazing through 240,000 miles
of space toward the stars
and the planet
from which I had come,
I suddenly experienced
the universe as intelligent,
loving,
harmonious.

2002 Reprocess Segment Database Extender
Astronautics. There is only one goal - to explore, to explore, to explore... I wish - for our mankind - that the Mars mission will be successful. There's no other way than to explore...
The hunt
The hunt for
a suitable explanation
involved intensive
spectral modeling
and theoretical mathematics,
one of whose parameters
included the fact
that the data shows
that the black hole
itself is
rotating.

2003 Paranormal Nanodivision
Cybernetics and its import to our nowadays life. Experiments with connect- chips- neurons. Results of the tests. Threat or the only way to the future?
Cyborg 1.0 freedom fighter from the 22nd century
I was born human.
But this was an accident of fate
- a condition merely
of time and place.
I believe
it's something
we have the power
to change.
I will tell you why.

Silicon chip ?c | Pr[adv(M0, r) = c] - Pr[adv(M1, r) = c] | = 2e
A silicon chip
was implanted in my arm,
allowing a computer
to monitor me.
...

2004 Neurotransmitter
In the end of my NCC history through lyrics description I can offer one new piece: Machine-Learning Research, cybernetic devices & their psychology.
Primitive state of development "You have not yet downloaded data from Opportunity", null, unmount, sleep
I know very few people, and
perhaps nobody,
who really uses his or
her intellect to the
absolute maximum.
File file = new File(afile[i],
WITSPreferences.getPreferences().getString("missionType") +
File.separator +
WITSPreferences.getPreferences().getString("missionInstance"));
In a way that's
what philosophy is about,
is trying to get people to try
to think
a whole lot harder.
WITSResourceBundle.configureAction(this,
"logindialog.opportunity",
"Go to Opportunity's landing site",
"Go to Opportunity's landing site",
0,
null);
One of the ways is to
stop taking things for granted.
I pick up the newspaper every day and
there's all kinds of nonsense
being spread around.
Artificial intelligence is one of
the most famous cases of this.
Anybody can open a newspaper and
see it's absolutely silly,
a lot of the things that are said -
how by next Christmas
we're all going to have household robots that
are going to do all the housework,
entertain us with lively conversation,
take care of the kids, and
amuse us in our old age...
unzip ;
touch ;
finger ;
mount ;
gasp ;
yes ;
umount ;
sleep


Ingrowing are our old friends. Because of your question, I've read the lyrics of Vlakin again. It's a little bit another cup of tea, but I've discovered, that they write about us!!!!! See the Cyberspace floats through me from Ingrowing's Cyberspace (excerpt)
Imprisoned in the seventeen inches monitor i live
Virtual corporeality is my sick walk
About in private database garden
Computerised emotions, digitalised instincts
Synthetic labyrinths of ideal world diffuse through me
I am careful gardener of directories´ and files´ world
Imprisoned in the seventeen inches monitor i slave
To many megabytes of negligent collateral collapse
As the fingers dance the lethal kankan over keyboard
...


Left to right - on the way home from Fuck The Commerce Festival, 23.5.2004 (!!and it snows!!): Vlakin (Ingrowing), Ierich (NCC), Robo (NCC, in FTC T-Shirt), Áda, Paul (NCC), Moza (NCC), Curby (Obscene)

9)The first time I've heard NCC was the split tape with Catasexual Urge Motivation I think... Great split tape! What do you think of this one nowadays? Were you in touch at all with C.U.M. at the time?

A touch with a CUM was that time only a little, as I good remember, one e-mail... It's so far from today - we play still one song from that tape live… It was simply very dirty harsh time.

10)How's the current state of czech underground in your eyes? What are the best czech bands to you, any bands that really deserve more attention? You used to do this czech underground encyclopedia website, do you think updating it again someday?

The Czech underground grows since X* years, I'm in. * = 183/324
The web http://archiv.radio.cz/grindenc/grindenc/index.htm contains The Encyclopaedia of 350 Czech & Slovak grind/noise/industrial bands.
Yeah, great idea, I've made what I could, and mapped the years 1988-2000. It's closed now, no new bands added (since 2000). But the contents of that decade I will complete. Some time sure. I'd like to. I have to. An update comes… in a future, I've collected many infos, only to finish it.

11)What's your current playlist? Current favorite bands? Do you listen to other types of music besides grindcore & metal?

I listen to Jacqueline du Pré - Violoncello concerts. Or to Bárta's Cello interpretations.
And then is on the order the industrial "music" - such things like Schloss Tegal, Crepuscule, Aghiatrias, Tábor radosti… it gives me a lot. Check the Czech Aghiatrias grouping on www.vladimirhirsch.com
Of course, gore grind is the best!

12)I love the way you use of movie samples in your music, it really adds a cool humorous edge to your stuff... But anyway, I saved my most boring question last... What are some of your all time fave movies?

Pitch Black!
Alien!

13)Ok, that's all I've got! Thanks for going through this... Any last comment?

Fenx a lot for this ingratiating interrogation.
C'ya anon.

ierich, ncc drums
http://ncc.wz.cz/
8.1.2005

 
 

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