As sci-fi fans, we were naturally attracted to your music. We sincerely feel Dark City could have used some of your songs on its soundtrack. So, if you were to be an egotistical maniac, which movies would you re-release having Perturbator as the main musical driving force?
Good question ahah ! I just can't pick up the obvious ones ’cause those are the ones that inspired me and I would be ashamed to say that I could've done a better job than Vangelis or Jerry Goldsmith. I'd say some "crappy" movies that just needed a cool soundtrack to be known, like Galaxy Of Terror (1981) or Nightbeast (1982). Check them out by the way, they're enjoyably bad.
This question comes from TZEEEAC readers Radu and Daniel: what are some of your favorite movies and cartoons from the 80s? Is this where you draw your inspiration from?
Hi Radu and Daniel ! Well for the movies I guess it's pretty obvious: I love sci-fi and trashy retro flicks, this is where I get most of my inspiration from. Blade Runner, Fright Night, all the slasher classics, animes like Akira or Wicked City. It's just the stuff I grew up with. Even some more obscure flicks like The Toxic Avengers series or Brain Damage which I love to watch now and then and I don't mind if the effects looks shitty by today standards: the more crappy they are, the more fun I have watching them. The quality of the movie doesn't even matter, it's the aesthetics of the movies from the 80s that I love the most. Those neon colours, the backgrounds... It's an ambience that can't be reproduced nowadays. So it's always a great inspirational experience to watch or re-watch those kind of movies. And that’s what my music is all about: experiencing once again something that was forgotten a long time ago.
-from an interview with Perturbator
