Cyberpunkers started in 2006 from the passion for Cyberpunk culture of two young Italian DJ’s. The format aims at giving a fresh start to this style through four different yet connected forms of art: electronic music, fashion, design and photography. In a nutshell, a transposition of the Cyberpunk world in modern clubbing.

Through several performances at famous clubs, Cyberpunkers drew lots of interest and ended up being talked about for both their original look and for the originality of their shows, which are marked out by the use of two consoles at once and powered by several audio machines.

Cyberpunkers have shared the stage with big names at some of the biggest electronic European festivals, and even with such a tight schedule it hasn’t prevented them from doing a lot of important remixes and singles.

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Cyberpunkers – Is Alternative

Background
The name Cyberpunkers comes from the cyberpunk culture we are so interested in.
We define our project in 4 words: electronic music, fashion, design and photography!
Our project is based on the balance of these 4 art forms. Of course, we start from Electronic Music and then we consider Fashion (vital for us because of our look). Consequently, there’s Design. It is necessary for our virtual image, where the cleanliness of the form and the use of colours in our website and in our logo are the essential features.
Last but not least there’s Photography: it is one of the main things of our project because with our photos we can create our trademarks and we can resume the most of our artistic needs.

Musical Background
We met four years ago working on the console of the “De Sade Cub” of Milan, and we discovered to have a very big passion for the “early” Cyberpunk Style, the one that you can find in the Ridley Scott’s movie “Blade Runner”: an authentic masterpiece of 1982.
Since we were Djs, we decided to create a format that could represent our personal interpretation of the style, pushing it in the current clubbing world.

New EP
I Needed To Go and O.M.G. will be out the 19th of March 2010 on Freakz Me Our Records (Germany). There will be 8 remixes: D.I.M from Boys Noize Records, Tom Deluxx, Belzebass, Autodidakt, Maxcherry, Gooseflesh, Jast A Band and Zero Cash.
We do also have a video for I Needed To Go, so it is clear that we have a lot of hope in this EP.

For composing our music initially we started with virtual instruments and some digital synths like Virus or Nord Lead, then we passed to full analog synth. In studio now we use a Moog Voyager and Dave Smith Prophet 08, and we add distortion using guitar pedals. We are very satisfied with the results we are having using these machines, since we moved to analog we think we’ve had a big breakthrough. For a sequencer, we use Nuendo and for the special effects we use the classic Waves. The work of post production (mixing and master) we do directly in our studio, we prefer to do it ourself, because we never agree in total with somebody out of our project. All our tracks are and will be done always and completely by us, using API Equalizer and two Distressor Compressors for the final master.

Future
We have a lot of surprises! A new EP and many gigs all around the world. We’d like to do a tour in the U.S.A. and another one in Australia, because the first Australian Tour was so short.

Tips
The only advice that we would like to give to the new recruits are to have a personal style that can emerge and be noticed, avoid schools of dj or production, no one can teach you how to produce or dj, they need to be the shapers of themselves, and do a long and intimate route to mature their style.
When playing live, is very important to interact with the crowd, getting involved entirely from his pathos, sharing it with those who dance, and you must transmit all the energy you have.

Who
Belzebass, Pelussje and Tom Deluxx are ones to look out for, also because we have the same management, Metromute Agency (www.myspace.com/metromute).
We trust in Blisters Boyz, a young french duo, we do also a remix for them, Solferino stuff, comin out next April 2010 on Paranoiak Label.
But if you follow with a little bit attention this music movement, you’ll find a lot of very interesting artist and projects.

Blogging
Blogs are the fastest way to have a contact and a comparison with our fans and not only that, using this we can have our ideas confirmed that our project are what people want.
The blogs are very useful also because we can promote our future event and stuff, so a very good way to do advertising.
If we thought that there wass no interest, we’ll never accept to release this interview J

Other Music
We’d like to listen sereval artist, like, for example Norman Cook (Fatboy Slim), Chemical Brothers, Bjork, Air, Basement Jaxx, Daft Punk, Beastie Boys, Cassius, Moby, Prodigy and all the Techno of the Years ’90, but also (sorry for this mixture) Sex Pistols, Ramones, The Clash, Korn, Nirvana, The Offspring, System Of A Down, Depeche Mode, Massive Attack, Tricky, Jamiroquai and Michael Jackson (R.I.P.) and also an Italian group: The Punkreas.

Spare Time
As everybody knows, doing music is not the only thing that an artist have to do: we also follow the contact with fans using websites (myspace, Facebook, Twitter) because we love to answer directly to anybody that asks us something.
We stay with our friends! We are often far from Milan, so when we’re free, spend our time with them and our family is a great thing!
We love roller blading for example, but also make sex and be drunk.

Add
We want to thank your readers very much for their time and we hope to see them during one of our concerts!
Contact us at www.myspace.com/cyberpunkers or www.cyberpunkers.com

Cyberpunkers – I Needed To Go EP is out on 19th March