Anything Box Interview May 2007

For those of you who may not know, Anything Box is set to release the long awaited EP entitled FuturePast. This EP will include 4 different remixes of "Carmen". Claude asked the ABOX street team to email their interviews to help promote the release, and here is mine:

    1 - You have so many great songs, name 3 songs that you favor the most.

Claude: Too hard. Let me see.  Automatons,  World Without Love,  Carmen.  Subject to change  without  notice.

    2 - Are there any plans to record an album similar to Peace, Worth, or Hope?

Claude: Similar?  If you mean electronic, yes. If you mean  copy  myself, no.

    3 - What's the most important lesson you learned in the music business?

Claude: That empires crumble. Seriously, though? I learned to be clear with my goals.

    4 - If you could travel back in time, what era would you want to go to and what would you bring from the future?

Claude: I do that all the time.  From the future I  bring a smile.

    5 - If you were given the chance to play anywhere in the world, where would you want to play and why?

Claude: Right now? Argentina, Japan, Australia, New Zealand.  Perhaps all in that order.  Peru! Spain...  Pretty much anywhere is fine with good company.

    6 - Describe how you feel right before your shows.

Claude:  Very nervous, but it all goes away once we are "on". I play mental pictures in my head of how it will go, almost always good of course, and it always ends up fine.

    7 - Has there ever been a time where any of you guys felt like you've had enough of this music thing?

Claude:  Oh yeah. But not with the act of writing music. There is magic there, always.

    8 - If you could work with any top-notch music producer, who would it be and why?

Claude:  I don't really care about that as much as I do the rooms they work in. I would rather rent a cottage on the ocean to get a vibe. A producer would only bring an outside influence, and I am not too into that. This is our music, not his.

    9 - Elecktrodelica was way beyond its time, what was the inspiration behind the album?

Claude:  Life was the thing on a very personal and emotional level. As far as the technical aspect, I wanted to make a new road for electronic music. Many people accused us of abandoning Synthpop with that album, and I don't agree. What I did was find new roads to travel on towards the future. It is one of my favorite albums. 

    10 - How is the ABOX of today different from ABOX of 1989?

Claude:  Smarter. More creative, yet firmly rooted in a sense of wonder and friendship. Aside from that, we're good.

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FuturePast EP track Listing:
Carmen Revisited
Carmen Castellano
Carmen (El Rosarino Mix)
Carmen (Pipeloop Mix)
Soul On Fire (Heartless Dub)
Clean (Hajas Edit)
Living In Oblivion (Chicago Haus Edit)
Where Is Love & Happiness (Ultraviolet Edit)
Interlude Movement 26
Every Distant Sigh... There will be an alternate download only version, plus a CD on CDBABY.