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MK: S/t had at least a couple of positive reviews here in Italy , and I liked it very much too. I found it, beyond all the words that have already been said and written, a surprisingly mature work. How do you explain the success of critics of S/t? In what can it differ from other Italian field productions?

Fabio Volpi: The good reviews were even more than just a couple, but it is not just that which surprised me the most. I read some reviews which enjoyed me a lot, drifting, becoming pieces of literature. It remains that the most useful to us, that is to say the coldest and most technical ones, have seized some of communication potentialities of the tracks giving a lot of pleasure to the ones, as us, always addressing to a little niche of public. For the rest, I think we had success because of the historical moment the CD was released in, period inflated with continuous releases of rock groups playing uncritically and in full nostalgic trance exactly as Clash or Joy Division did, without shame and with good results of selling. In the middle of all this, a work such as our's, completely out of fashion, is very positive for the reviewer.

MK: Your work has been defined a work of cold electronic aesthetics, minimal and synthetic, alienating and repetitive, elegant and noisy. All features present and well mixed in a record that maybe wants to give a deeper aesthetical message, or at least different. It is just a feeling or the imprint of your music is moving exactly towards this direction?

Fabio Volpi: One of the key words recurring often in our discussions is illness: that is to say the diverted vision of things through filters such as paranoia, detachment and a certain dehumanisation as main obsessions. If you want, our aesthetics aligns with Memorie del sottosuolo. Dostoevsky has already said all about it better then us. In our case this line, once again extremist, has produced characters, sounds and matching with a strong personality and a recognizable identity.