Human Resource performed december 3 in Helsinki (Finland). Before they flew to Finland they had an interview with a dancemagazine from Finland.

1. Welcome to Finland!:) It's your first time here and we are very excited and honored to have you performing DJ set at our brand new event Hellfire Club! How you feel coming to Finland first time?

I'm honoured to come to Finland. I never been to Finland or anywhere in Scandinavia before so i really love it! Didn't knew you guys were into "our" sound.

2. You have lot of fans here in Finland and tracks like Dominator, Joke and Fuck Them were big hits here in 90's and still are today! We love old school and new stuff too. Can you tell us little bit what kind of tracks we can expect from Human Resource DJ set?

Serious? haha, never knew that those tracks did it very well in Finland.. Very awesome though!.. Well.. I'm really into the new sound now but still do a lot of Oldschool/Early sets. I think we'll try to make it a big mashup of Early vs New.. ( so i hope you guys can give us an extra hour? ;-))

3. You have had long great career and produced some of the greatest tunes in history of techno and hardcore. How you see the scene going nowadays as being one of the true pioneers behind it all?

There's a new wave of talent arriving and we'll see a lot of very good, well produced, new tracks. It's reasonably easy to make (allmost professional sounding) tracks on a laptop (everywhere you want in a train, in the park.. ). Back in the days we had to buy gear to make music and the initial investment made the threshold pretty high to start producing. Nowadays all you need is a computer and a torrent-client (or a friend willing to help) I'm still not sure if this is good or bad. Ah well.. we made dominator with about 10K worth of equipment and made dominator with it.. i guess that the studio's in that day were thinking the same as i did now. but still Your equipment was your sound. Now with DAW's and in the box summing every track has more or less the same sound and because of the systems being digital, there's no cables that can be wired in a wrong way so it will create a new sound. I guess we'll see what will happen..

4. Hoover is the king of all sounds and your legendary track "Dominator" has been copied million times by million producers, how it was in 1991 when you created something that would change the history of electronic music?

Not sure what you want mean by this question but since it's about the sound i will go deeper into that..Everyone knows by now that the sound is from the Roland Alpha Juno 2. Put a pitchenvelope on the basic sound, open the sub oscilator, and then open the incredible chorus untill the chorus sounds like an extra oscillator and bam! When we created the sound we thought it was too heavy to use and because of the pitch envelope allmost impossible to create a normal melody line with it. Then Joey Beltram's mentasm was released and we tried to find a way to use it and to play it.. I never knew that it would have an impact this big and changed my life in a way that i used to dream about. What would have happened if i stayed at home the night i met Johan and Robert at a party in Ahoy Rotterdam at the night we initially decided to do some tracks toghether? what would have happened if we hadn't gone over to the rehearsal studio (i used to rehearse with my metal band) and where we hooked up the Juno to a Marshall JCM 800 of my guitarplayer and heard the hoover-sound, roaring like a guitar, at the night we decided that we had to use it in a track?  really don't know.. i guess i wouldn't be talking to you and would still be playing in a band frustrated that we never made it big and probably married with children. who knows...

5. One of the best gigs I have witnessed was your and Miss Djax's back2back set at this year's Ground Zero festival in Holland. Please tell us shortly how your collaboration together started?

thanx a lot! we were very pleased as well! I know saskia from back in 1991. She was doing the sales at IMC Distribution (who were part owner of 80Aum Records who released dominator. ) at the end of 1991 she had a fling with Robert Mahu (HR Member) It didn't last very long but i got to know her pretty well. We lost contact in 1992 and met up again in 2007. She was looking for someone who wanted to produce tracks and preferably hardstuff! So we started experimenting with Schranz/Hardtechno and 8 months later the first EP on Djax was released. It became record of the month! The second record we did, headbanging, was inspired heavily by felix Krocher's travel pussy and was record of the month as well! So after those released the collab was going very smoothly. For a live gig i put the dominator vox and sound in her ableton (for use as an intro and she said the crow responded really well. We made a track with the vocals and the sound and when she opened with it at awakenings in 2009, the crowd went nuts.. (here's a youtube vid.. sound is horrible but you will get the idea http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8x36OxYI4s&feature=related) then i wanted to push the envelope a bit further. Saskia was asked to do a gig in the paradiso, Amsterdam and i tagged along. we Linked 2 laptops with ableton via Midisync. She took care of the beats and i did melodies and vocals... That was magic! After a few gigs Multigroove asked us to do the set for Ground Zero.. And they wanted an anthem.. so we called Marc Acardipane and reworked his evergreen "Stereo Murder".... That's our collab in a nutshell.. We're still working on new stuff.. trying to find the perfect combination of both worlds...

6. Can we also expect more production with you and Rotterdam Termination Source in future?

Maybe.. Maurice and i go a long way back as well but i dont know if we will ever do tracks together. he started his own video company and produces videoclips and does that very well. We recently worked together as maurice is doing a movie about the old days called oldschool renegades and features a lot of the guys from the early days.. i saw some of the footage and it contains a lot of nice "things to know" about those days :-) 

7. See you soon and any last words to Finnish crowd before you hit the land of Vodka and darkness? :)

Offcourse, polar night.. is that evident in Helsinki as well? I thought that was only in the northern part of finland... last words for the finnish people? hope to see you all this weekend at the hellfire club and let's Rock!!!!

respect!!