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Batch ID is singing in swedish on the new album

8/28/2012

The release of new album is only a couple of weeks away and we are very anxious about how it will be received.

One of the big changes on this album is that all songs are sung in swedish. This came about when we wrote the song Ifred back in 2009.

We were mad about the new IPRED-law, and since Ifred (left in peace) and Ipred, looks and sounds similar in swedish we used that as an idea for the lyrics. It did'nt work to translate to english so we went ahead and wrote the entire song in swedish.

We were very pleased with the outcome and got alot of good response for the song. It also seemed as if Johan could be more expressive and versitile with the swedish language, and we decided to write some more songs in our native tounge.

Hopefully this will not alienate our foreign listeners. Some of the first positive reactions on our music came from listeners in Germany, Italy and Argentina, (love you guys) and we really hope that you'll still be able to enjoy our music.

Ifred will appear on the album in a new version. But until it's release you can have a listen to the original version at Sound Cloud.

Ifred - Original verion

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Was ist das?

8/7/2012

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This started as a joke on a train. We were on our way back home after a gig with a small but very loving audience in Berlin. We had fallen in love with the city and the loving people that greeted us there. We were also a bit frustrated that we didn't speak the language. Especially since we had shared stage with the band Oberer Totpunkt, wich we were told had some really interesting lyrics that we just couldnt understand since they were sung in german.

On the train we started to do a word game where we started by saying; Was ist das? - and then we answered with any german worlds that popped up in our heads. Very silly, but also very funny when you are über tired and in a good mood.

Once we got back to our studio we were a bit lost to what our next step should be. Before our gig in Berlin we had released the EP Tanz Anarchie, and were really trying to be more EBM, but also a bit less serious then we had been on the album Testosterone. But we didn't know where to go from there and we weren't sure at all about our musical direction.

We had this idea of using less programming and incorporate real instruments instead of using only the computer. So we started to play a beat from an old drum-machine, a Yamaha MR10. We recorded a few bars and made a loop of the rythm in Cubase. Then we added a simple baseline witch we recorded live with a Yamaha DX7 and processed that in the same manner as the drums.

Then we started to add a bunch of noises and rythms using anything we could find on the premises. We made a snare by hitting a aluminum tray, we made maracas out of a jar filled with rice and we made alot of noises on a big, blue steel barrel. We also recorded some noises by tweaking our Korg MS-10.

We even used a toy in form of an alien mask wich had a microphone that made a couple of alien sound effects. We used that on the voice to get it a bit distorted in the break.

The song sounded very old school, very analogue and minimal. We loved it but was it Batch ID? What was it? Was ist das?

The lyrics kind of wrote them self from that point and we had found a new way to create and record songs. Today we often combine programming with some instruments or sounds recorded live.

Listen to Was ist das? at our SoundCloud page.

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Batch ID is singing in swedish on the new album

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