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Kurt Rotthier started Ionic Vision.In 1997 Kurt Rotthier quit, but Sven Lauwers and Andy de Decker did go on with their sound technician Louis Zachert.Forbidden Games (CD)
Stress Out (Ionic Cont...Fall And Forget (CDr)
Desensitize (Spontaneo...Primary Target (CDr)
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more...How to make your music website make some real profit?Never again paying too much for concert tickets ?Excentric Phil Spector innocent in murder trial ?SiriusSpecials is one of the leading online retailers of SIRIUS radios with new deals almost weekly.Let Razorgator be your source for tickets to see acts like The Killers, Justin Timberlake , and Christina Aguilera!Looking for tickets to the see The Police?Ionic Vision is probably one of the less recognized bands in their homeland Belgium!David Carretta, The Horrorist, Terence Fixxmer and even Thomas P.When resuming and considering all these facts we can only, but agree they definitely deserve more recognition.So I decided to contact the 'Ionic' headquarters to get a better idea and 'Vision' about the band!Sven, Andy and Louis are real nice guys who can keep on talking about EBM for hours!What's the link between EBM and Ionic Vision?Ionic Vision now claimed to compose hard core EBM?After 16 years of Ionic Vision, how do you feel when holding this new album "Bitter Isolation" in your hands?It's indeed an amazing feeling that we managed to get this far by our own efforts and hard labour.We reached this point without the true aid of a record label or manager, so yeah, very proud indeed.Ionic Vision, proud to still be around and being a part of the major EBM scene.The inspiration lies in the moment itself where we find fitting lyrics to a bass line or vice versa.We never start from 'let's make a song about theme x'.It just doesn't work like that.It's more a sound or even a simple phrase that sets the wheels in motion.Maybe there were others as well.If so, too small to mention.We seek for nice sounds, nice sequences (EBM is tooled on good bass lines).Next we started to pour them into a song (with smaller vocal parts over it) and start the search for more or better layered sounds.Louis boosts the songs and vocals up and finally masters the complete thing.Sven's voice sound that BAAAAAAD......So what's the real input of Louis Zachert and what have been the new elements he brought to your production?My very personal approach to Ionic Vision's sound is to make it as 'pure' and 'real' as possible.Ionic Vision' sound and atmosphere.Talking about Louis Zachert, we knew him from the Cycloon project while he now has just released an album for Black Wedding.What can you say about this project and this release?To be honest: "Black Wedding" is my baby!The one I always had in my mind...I've been working on it for about five years; now it was 'given birth'.It's just the emotion which counts!Virgins" might not really fit into the MoJ track, but there are a number of reasons to release it with 'our' little record label.How's your label doing and how did you exactly manage items like promotion, distribution as you are a subdivision of COP International?We don't just pick up bands just for the sake of 'being important' or we have to act like a true (and greedy) label, no we always carefully follow up interesting bands!German Alternative Charts' entry does NOT have any influence about the actual sales of a CD.In contrary: sending out CDs has a certain impact on music piracy.We followed Proceed back then.Since a few years we did follow the Belgian EBM band Darkmen.Darkmen remix for Black Wedding?We fully agree on that statement!It all looks straight ahead, just like your music, but in which way is it intentional?Less is more and that goes for all concepts.For me, every single Ionic Vision release is a completely new challenge.That's what it's all about.We only get triggered by things that we see or hear.We only by accident came across this nauseating sound of moskitos, or whatever it sounds like, and then we were trying to figure out how someone would feel while being surrounded by millions of creepy bugs etc.So it's not that either of us have arachnophobia or anything like that.The EP "Sweet Isolation" preceded this new album!How come you guys seem to really love EP's?For me, this is another proof that EBM and in particular Ionic Vision is more than making an EBM album and end of story.We make hard core EBM, but we still show that this music has different sides.So, even out of artistic intent we get more than we bargained for.EBM band does such things these days?Since mid nineties not many or even none tried to escape the EBM tag.This EP has been announced as a featuring with Orange Sector, but what has been the real input of Orange Sector here?Next, Orange Sector made two splendid remixes for us, their interpretation of the track let's say.We created a track, and used it on our personal releases, and Martin and Lars are two real nice guys!It would have been easy but very narrow minded for us to search for bands in the EBM genre to do a remix.It would also be pointless to have remixes sounding almost exactly like the original or to be in the same genre.EBM scene have much more in common than the more 'modern' EBM scene.Correct, so, we did dig more or less in a genre which we like for some time, a genre that combines the aggressive bass sounds of EBM with a doses of nice dance beats.With this album we decided to put the cherry on the Ionic pie and show the world that Ionic Vision in its full isolation dares to stand up and play along with some of the bigger ones.We got in touch with each and everyone of them personally.I'm sure that we will work more with Oliver Chesler, whom we respect deeply, both as artist and as person.Ionic Vision always did dare to expand the EBM genre we were pushed in and it indeed started with the release of "MaschinenAngst" (ION005).We kept stretching these borders when we invited Terence Fixmer and Thomas P.Heckmann doing remix jobs for us ("In Between" (ION007)).That 12inch sold 1000 copies in one day and you can be sure it wasn't only to true EBM fans.All this proves two things to me in person:Ionic Vision is a well respected band, clearly far more respected by artists than press because indeed most of the artists do know us and highly appreciate what we do, else they wouldn't have worked with us.Ionic Vision, but unfortunately too many believe EBM is one and all the same pulp.But we darn proved we took the right decision, because even top DJ's like Dave Clarke (who remixed Depeche Mode) spin our remixes.We never take anything they do for granted.If that's not there, don't bother at all!You've just released a 12" on Things To Come Records, which is the label of Oliver Chesler (The Horrorist) himself.We never had any expectations to begin with.Oliver is currently working on a new album and I'm sure we can repay him back soon by doing a remix for him.Of course we knew that we would reach other people than the small niche of EBM, but that was kind of our aim to start with, despite the vinyl."Sweet Isolation", which seems to contain different remixes?EBM band making one album every year.We take care of every concept and release.We don't want to come over cheap or give the impression that we only do this for extra money.If you really want to make "real" money out of it....Hey, Sven, grab your accordion!After all these years, what have been the main high lights and best memories in the career of Ionic Vision and what have been the worst ones?Main thing is we stayed together, we showed all who we really are and still can be proud of it, of all the top EBM bands existing we nearly worked or got in touch for some reason with all of them, so we are in a certain way, at the top ourselves.David Carretta, Terence Fixmer or even The Hacker and Dave Clarke with whom we have been negotiating too.You guys started when you were all very young while 16 years later I can imagine you both have a family, maybe kids, but your music sounds still the same!Just listen to "Rage Against The Acoustic" in comparison to "Bitter Isolation".There are whole UNIVERSES between these two.UP side of Ionic Vision's sound.Louis, and don't want to be offensive but if you say our music still sounds the same, you clearly have not been listening to it, full stop.Prejudices like that are precisely why we were always put in isolation, EBM is EBM and that will always remain the same.There is so much more to EBM than just that one album.We like all further albums by Nitzer Ebb, but none can be compared with Ionic Vision, right?Name us one Ionic Vision track that sounds like "I give to you" or "My heart"?And name us one Nitzer Ebb song that sounds like Ionic Vision's "L'usine or "She Is".Ionic Vision does have it's own ingredients, own style and a personal way of creating sound layers or song structures?Of course we evolved in things like production, sounds and layers, effects, lyrics and the way they can be used in song, art,...True, we don't mind putting new elements into old school EBM, with every release you grow and experiment more with sounds and equipment, so we do have a different sort of feel on each album.We always have enough experimental parts in our music, parts that remain true to the roots but where you can discover a nice step just outside the small borders of EBM, if only a listener would be prepared to drop the short minded association tags and have the guts to discover this.Because their last so called 'evolved in sound' album ''Big Hit'' was such a success?!Ionic Vision's latest 'none evolved in sound album for 16 years' "Bitter Isolation", it did stay in the DAC top 10 for weeks, why is that?!Not much, we'll hear about it when it comes out right?Maybe they copy one of Ionic Vision's albums, what a disgrace that would be for the world!Andy : Let's indeed not expect too much, then we won't be too disappointed.Is there any particular reason to this?You know that my 'baby' is Black Wedding.If Ionic Vision is for the 'fun part' (in every single aspect), then Black Wedding reflects my more 'musical side'.And: I can work with people who can actually read sheet music!And it's where we feel at home.Ionic Vision is probably one of the less recognized bands in their homeland Belgium!In order to prevent spam, you must be logged in to post comments.The mind is a terrible thing to taste...We're very much involved in writing the new material.Powerful lyrics request engine for Ionic Vision.Send Ionic Vision Ringtones to Cell Phone!Darkmen, Release of Debut Album Getting Closer..Support
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reference for the harder tracks.They have been active for years and finally they seem to be experiencing the respect and attention they deserve.Aside from the fact that we are now older, what has changed since those days for you personally and musically?What happened in the meantime with your old comrade Kurt?We are only working with a super application called Reason, these days.We got in contact with loads of other bands during that period, so we gained good contacts.Next to all that, it seems that during that decade of EBM absence, we still kept our flock of fans, and particularly that resulted in the fact that, in 2006, we are a respected band in the scene.One day he just turned his back towards us, and since then we lost contact."State Of The Art" which even included a female singer.So it was time to reconsider what we were doing, think about whether we would go on making EBM or not.At that point we had a full album ready, but it was so soft, so weak that we dumped all tracks, started all over; and we worked hard, with only one intention, to create a new EBM album.Alfa Matrix is just not interested in Ionic Vision.It is true that a lot of the former Side Line bands and members stayed with Alfa Matrix, but we were not one of them.For more details you have to ask them this question.Please explain a bit about the organization of it.What are the pros and cons of being responsible for all artistic and financial matters?We are allowed to use the COP Intl.When it comes down to promotion, we have to do all this by ourselves and we have to finance all of this.For the price of one ad, you can print a full CD!Music has to be for fun and sell itself!Please describe his position in the band and his importance to your music...Suddenly Louis turned up in Brussels, and since then we three became and stayed close friends.Louis is just as important to Ionic Vision as the two of us."Actual" (ION009) was released sooner than expected.But all in vain, we still feel sorry for this, as if we turned our back to DSBP.But it was not the case, not at all, Tommy still does his good work for us, and we hope to collaborate more.Louis help you out here with the grammar?One of our influences is D."Ich Will" was one of them.We wrote the lyrics ourselves and asked Louis to check the grammar.Maybe on the next album we will include a track in Dutch!Why the strong dedication to this theme?Some songs not only ask for German lyrics, but sometimes sounds or sequences are so naughty that they require sexy and erotic words.Garden" is the ultimate sex song, let us all hope that if we die and end up in heaven we can fuck all day and all night!Please give us a very personal point of view: how do you see the current political situation globally?What's going on with your live sets?Any further dates you can already confirm?So far there is no confirmation yet of any new gigs.We hate it when we attend a live performance of a band and notice that we might as well just put on a CD.The Electric Tremor festival was a good gig.Besides the fact we never play studio versions, we also refuse to play a lot.This sort of music is just not good enough for overkill.Indeed, we have released a compilation, called HYMNS OF STEEL.We are a definite first, no matter what others claim.Anything else you guys would like to tell our readership?Thanks for the support and remember: keep raging against the acoustic!The music I hate these days are those stupid
ringtones of classic rock songs or answering machine
music.It's bad enough hearing all that stuff in every
car commercial on television.
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