HAVE YOU EVER WANTED TO KILL SOMEONE, THEN SLASH HIS THROAT, TAKE THE KNIFE AND STAB THROUGH THE CHEST WHILE COUNTING TO 26?

Go to the doctor NOW!

Or just check out OUTO

Every time I am in the UK and I play a Japanese record to somebody, I get this pale wimpy face expression back. yes, fuck Fireman and Last Shadow Puppets and all that shit.
Sorry for swearing, but the UK has been pumping shit out into the world especially in 2008…and we are so glad this year is over. (yes you, we don’t hate you because you are worse in football, we are disappointed music fans and we hate most German music…so don’t leave us hanging here, k???)
“OUTO - U.K”

It feels like this decade is over, almost the last century comes to an end now (yes what a surprise it never really ends on December 31st 1999 you know… it crossfades for a bit, and then we all see the new century in all its glory)
“OUTO - Death Of Victims”

Sometimes people ask me “hey Alec, why are you so angry? everything is good in the world. What would you change?” Of course I never even reply to that, because I am not angry per se, actually I have moments of the Jesus Christ mood when I could just hug everybody on this planet and I imagine driving in a Porsche with Korn, those guys from around the corner here in Kreuzberg who talk the Taliban talk, Kathleen Hanna, The Cramps and Ex-chancelor Schröder …and we are all going on holiday, singing a song in the car, and we are about to cross the border to Poland and shit….so, yes, I sometimes love this world. but if I oculd get my hands onto the education system I would get teachers to teach this album to children age 9.
“OUTO - No Future”

Deal with your anger, it’s ok to confront your aggression, deal with it, make it your friend…do not swallow it down….don’t pretend smiling. Waiters in Berlin are not rude, they are alive because they don’t fake it.

At some point when the American hardcore scene started evolving backwards and make it a business, got t-shirt and merch “entrepreneurs” they lost it (same with Hip Hop by the way)…they lost the reason to exist in this world. That was the moment when I turned to Japanese punkrock.
“OUTO - Skate To Hell (I know kinda week this title, but song is awesome)”

Many people say those guys over there just imitate western music. Well, they don’t know what they’re talking about. These times are long gone (if they ever existed - I doubt that anyway). The bands over there are huge fans of music, they analyse it, they know how to play it, they find their own way of saying the things that need saying.

Just look at the titles here…“British Bulldog”, “Leather face”, “Never Win” and “Crazy Mom”….UK rock bands could shoot as much heroin as they want they would still not come up with song titles like these…British bands have song titles like “tape song” or “love deserter” or “Midnight surprise” - I am fucking falling asleep… the best thing about Berlin is when you are at a minimal techno club night and people joke at the bar about UK bands who talk with their high pitch Russel Brand voices how much rock’n'roll they are…it’s like their parents tought them that…or wait, they went to Paul McCartney’s music school and learnt songs from the white album….

So those Japanese bands they close themselves off the rest of the world, because they don’t care. When I am on tour I love understanding the other countries…this is the real reason why I would go out and play there. When you play music you can connect with people on a different level and you can absorb much more this way.

New century rock’n'roll has this “proud to be dumb” mentality while when I listen to Television (yes, not my generation…way before me) or Nico’s camera obscura, I feel that they were smarter than the rest of the society. they knew stuff most of us don’t or will never find out. They were looking at the goldfish instead of being the goldfish.

Midweek…Wednesday…December 3rd. I made a list and I figured…I know more good stuff than bad by now….I have won. Amazing feeling.

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