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Lunatic Calm - 'I CAN'T TECHNO SATISFACTION'

JUDGE JULES

Breaking point for Breaking Point, Don Sill talks to sHack of the techno cut and thrust, Lunatic Calm - Charlie's little known angels.

23/01/2002

With their music playing on soundtracks to such blockbuster hits as The Matrix and Charlie's Angels as well as other such films like Arlington Road, Mortal Combat and The Jackyl you can bet Lunatic Calm is no stranger to success. The last few years have been action packed for the group whose debut, "Metropool" was a huge underground hit spawning off a string of techno/industrial tunes featured in commercials and feature films and they have even toured the world with techno superstars, Crystal Method.

2002 will be no exception, the group already has one of their tracks "Leave You Far Behind," featured on the up-coming Spider-Man Movie trailer and have just dropped their sophomore effort entitled "Breaking Point" which is expected to be even more successful than "Metropool."

"Breaking Point" seemed to be a very appropriate title for this album for it literally took the band straight to the edge. Trying desperately to record their follow-up the group would hit more than a few bumpy roads. Aside from and having their hands full with corporate mergers, cut-backs, re-recording, creative differences and company lies; Lunatic Calm would also lose their drummer (Jez Nobel) to a "crazy stripper" in Arizona. "The last time we were out in the states, supporting the Crystal Method a couple of years back, (Jez) met a nice young lady along the way. (laughs) Within a week after the tour he was on a plane heading right back to Arizona to see her," tells Shack, one of the founding fathers behind Lunatic Calm. "He's now married to her and in fact, last week they gave birth to a baby.."

The album, which actually began production way back in 1998 with prototypes of tracks such as "Beatbox Burning" and "Sound of the Revolution" was certainly a long time in the making. "It was a real period of trial and error," says Shack. "Some of the tracks on the album really took a long time to make and there was quite a bit of material that was discarded and quite a few versions of tracks that simply never made the grade. We really wanted to fuse the hard-edged digital with a more organic sound and a lot of that just kinda came about from jamming."

Lunatic Calm, which includes co-creator and co-collaborator Howie Saunders, are looking forward to continued success. They are already rumored to have a track or two featured in the up-coming Matrix 2 and possibly a few other movies as well. "Our music seems to lend itself quite well with the cinematic feel," says Shack, "Me and Howie have always shared a interest in large sounds.. Whether it be a Metallica guitar or the sound of an orchestra or a Chemical Brothers beat or whatever it might be, there has always been something that has appealed to us about that kind of depth of sound. The fact that we're such a digital based outfit, we have kind of an high-tech edge which the cinema relies on and we're both kind of cut and thrust."

Shack will be performing live and deejaying in NYC on February 13th at Static.

For more info on Lunatic Calm you can log to:
http://www.lunatic-calm.co.uk

Don Sill for Crud Magazine© 2002



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