This Sunday September 11 will be a special gig to celebrate PREDRAG DELIBASICH’s 10 year anniversary of making music in Australia. It will also be a launch for his new solo ep ‘Dance To My Gentle Music, Monester’. Predrag took time out to chat about the past decade of music making.

Congratulations, This weeks gig is celebrating your 10th year of making music is Australia, please tell us a little bit about some of the bands/projects you have been associated with over the last decade:

Thanks! I’ll try to be brief and to the point:
SOKKOL - first real band, played around 20 shows, mostly at Hyde Park Hotel. Punkish r’n’r stuff, never recorded anything properly, but gained a valuable experience about how the band works…
BAMODI - I saw the local band called Mannequin, loved them, became friends with vocalist/guitarist Kenta, got him to jam with me. He brought their drummer Scotty in, we did 8 songs at first rehearsal and played a gig two weeks later. We wrote and recorded 22 songs in 6 months, released an album that nobody bought. I guess the world was not ready for Bamodi, hehehe. Did a split CD with Japanese band Bariken, then I left, as I became too busy with personal stuff… Bamodi today are even better than before - it’s awesome to be able to see them from this side of the stage.
AIRPORT CITY SHUFFLE - joined them for 12 months, as their bass player left and they were nice enough to ask. Toured over east twice, got arrested once. Left in Feb 2007.
ABE SADA - I got asked by Cat Hope to form a band with her with bass guitars only. It was an offer I could not refuse. Toured Japan twice, released four albums, still play with them whenever I can.
SMRTS - formed in March 2009, about to finish the second album. Great bunch of people, great band to play in. 
My solo stuff goes from experimental/improvised to more structured song-based music. Released and LP, a 3-way split CD, a single and two CDEPs. Hopefully more to come, time permit.

The gig is also a launch for your new solo ep ‘Dance To My Gentle Music, Monster’ please tell us a bit about the tracks on it and explain the title.

There are two guitar techno songs on it  one recorded live at Dadas Records, the other done at home. I have been interested in creating such stuff on guitar for a while, and I think it works.

One songs is a remix of a song I recorded with a band called Bicikl in Belgrade, Serbia. The riff is taken from one of smRts’ songs. The title track has samples from the smRts debut album recordings, mixed and mashed for your pleasure. Drums on the Edge also has drumming from smRts and some of my saxophone playing added for a good measure. The opening track is me playing with effects on my computer.

The title, as many of my titles, is borrowed from a book, this time its by a Serbian author whose name escapes me. I think it’s also a title of the painting by Paul Clee, but I might be wrong. Personally, its a reference to all people who consider some of my most straight-forward music still to be experimental. It is not. It is very commercial, middle-of-the-road stuff and I get upset a bit that people who write about it dont get it. Luckily, the audience do get it!

 
10 years is a lot to cover musically, what surprises do you have in store for the show?
None. Sorry, I had big plans, but the life, once again, got in its way… The idea was to give away a sampler of some bits form last ten years. It will have to wait for when I get more spare time. I might do a website detailing all my projects and putting some stuff for download. I got too busy with smRts recording, writing grant application, watching Breaking Bad and having a life.
So, it will be Stina, Ghostdrums, Ghost of 29 Megacyclones and smRts, doing what we know best - playing some cool tunes!

Recently you have remixed several bands/artists . What is your approach when remixing another artists song? Is this something you would like to do more of in the future?

My approach is to make the song better, hehehe. Well, different to say the least. I love it, and I try not to listen to the original too much, if I can. Would love to do something with smRts’ songs, stripped them down to just drums and vague guitars, heavily effected, in the background.

You have covered a lot of ground musically over the last 10 years, is there something you havent done yet that you would like to achieve? What other future plans do you have for the next 10 years?

Yes, heaps of it. I love many kinds of music. I’d love to get more into making dance music, as well as more punk stuff, maybe some dub, and definitely I want to make a pure pop stuff in future. I’m not talking Kylie Minogue style, but definitely something that belongs to Top-40 territory. Make it Top-10.

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