Interview by Qa’taari, June 1996 THE BIG SEIT OHR_KÄSTRA has always been, and will probably always be, the most unique, obscure and mind-challenging orchestra for my 1000 selves. I came across the group around 1989 when there were only tapes of them existing, and these tape releases were difficult to get, at least in good ol’ fuckin GerMoney. The only possibility to buy them, if you weren’t deeply involved in the international cassette-network, was via the Artware mail order at that time. So I did. I was wondering when I first listened to the orchestra’s sound. They sounded mostly abstract and surreal, but always with a special flowing note. Noize’s were built as if someone was trying to create a big acoustical building or so.. loop after loop, sounds towering higher and higher... strange kind of voices.. humouros even. You felt as it was a totally other dimension, a very special dimension of their own. A dimension of noizes and strangeness(es). This kind of music was someting new to me, and so I tried to collect more and more tapes. A deep love began... Soon someone told me that BCO had already released a few dozen of tapes, maybe even more than hundred, and it would simply be impossible to get them all. I was truly impressed, because all the tapes I got were excellent. I wondered why they still hadn’t released any vinyl or CD’s at that time. There was so many shit being pressed on CD/vinyl, so why didn’t anyone pick them for a release??? So, I collected and enjoyed every new tape I could gather from BCO in the following... until... Yeah, until I got the chance to be the first one to press a 7" vinyl single of them in 1994! BCO had changed their actual style at that time (and they still do), less surrealistic flowing soundscapes, more crazy and humouros, radio-play-like... this was even stranger, but still so mind-challenging and extraordinary I couldn’t even think of rejecting the material they sent. Still I don’t understand a group can be so creative and strange... Now thay they have some CD’s out they seem to become a little bit more well-known and get the well-deserved attention. It get’s harder and harder to find the older tapes from the 80’s. I can only advise the conscient (we know how you are) TDR-reader: if you can get a BCO-tape anywhere, you shouldn’t hesitate! I’m almost sure BCO will stay one of the most creative groups of the so-called ‘non-academical’ experimental scene (therefor, they are illuminated!) in the next few years. I believe, to confront yourselves with the BCO-sound/concept/whatever will only have a positive effect on your brain.... Baraka[H], April 1996