This interview was done in last days of November 1999. The last November of this millenium. You will not find here many questions about music of the band; my goal was to bring some light on the man behind Deutsch Nepal - Lina B Doll. The same interview will appear on paper in the beginning of 2000. Well, if the first seconds of Y2K bring us so long waited by millions Armageddon from Bible then this web page is the only way to read this interview before we actually meet in Hell.

How is life there in Sweden? On what are you working right now? Are you ready to meet Apocalypse this winter 1.1.00 at 00.01?

Life in Sweden is pretty good but I would like to go somewhere else....the gras is allways more green on the other side.. so to say...I go inside... travelling to unknown corners of my brain... At this moment I work at theCold Meat Industry Office doing the dirty work for Roger Karmanik..... so it'snot much time for music and sounds..but I started to gain energy for a new Deutsch Nepal album to be released on Cold Meat Industry. I'm a walking Apocalypse myself so I'm allready prepared and start to getpretty used to this way of living.... so no need to worry about the world apocalypse I thought it was in 99.09.09 wich mean yesterday......hhmmm maybe it allready happened??!!!

After that short introduction let's start talking about music. Since you are the only member of DN so I'd like to ask you about yourself. Your age, education, job (if any), main interests. All those things people tell about themselves at first meeting.

I'm 34 years old and have been doing this kind of music for about 15 years...I have no real education but thinking about studying Criminology..... My intrest / my work/ my freetime have become one as I?m working on the Cold Meat Industry-office.... and as usual everything you work with is a pain in theass..so I start to become bored with music....

You are known as Lina B Doll, generalstab, etc. In fact I know people who think that you, Lina, is a woman. Why do you use all these names and don't use your real name Peter Andersson?

Who cares.....about what gender one have? The more important is who you have sex with and how much (hahaha). I say everyday and very much with everyone shouldbe the law. Lina is a good name as everyone that I know call me this for some reason....It's only the authorities and my familly that call me Peter Andersson.

Well, I began to talk about names so I'd like to ask you this question.You and the guy from raison d'etre have the same name. Is that combination of first and last names "Peter Andersson" is very common in Sweden? Like in Russia "Ivan Petrov"...

Yes I guess it's the most usual name you could have in Sweden.

You have started DN around 1990. But I know that before that date you had some projects (punk?). Could you tell me about those times before the birth DN. And what was reaction of your relatives when they found that their son don't want to work and play some noisy shit?

I was into everything that was extreme from the very begining of my teenage years. Punk also.. we had a band called "Farbrorn" (the Old Man, hahaha) I started to do Deutsch Nepal as I was bored with the people I worked with in a project called Njurmannen that played more like electronic-pop-industrial. I wanted to do music only for my own pleasure and as Roger Karmanik heard the recordings he wanted to release it. I decided to put a name on it and took a title from an album with the old german krautrock band "Amon Duul II".... Deutsch Nepal. My parents are harsh farmers on the countryside they never cared so much about my doings and I doubt they would understand it either....they?re just happy I'd have some kind of succsess and that I can travel a lot something they never did but wanted to do.

In your interview you told that music of DN doesn't mean anything at all and at the same time you say that music is the way you express yourself. How does that can be that you express nothing, void?

The music is like a fingerprint of mine that I put everywhere in the environment .....could mean a lot to some if they find it... on the other hand it's only my personal dustpin where I put all the crap I find hard to handle..or just don't like.

Deutsch Nepal is you main project or it have the same priority as other musical projects?

Deutsch Nepal was the main project before but now as also Frozen Faces, Janitor and Bocksholm started to work as real projects they have the same priority....

You just released Erosion and split with Der Blutharsh. What do you think about your last works and do you think that Erosion can be called the best album for DN?

My personal favorites of� Deutsch Nepal cds are "Benevolence" and "Tolerance".....the split with Der Blutharsch was a co-operation and then you are suddenly two persons that should coop with each other....then it become different.

The music of DN is changing with every album. Do you know where you want to lead this project or those changes appear spontaneously and you have no clue where you'll be on your next album?

I do not see the reason why to repeat myself and I only release albums if I have something new to expose for the audience. Deutsch Nepal have kind of a life of it's own I never know what will happen on the next release.

When do you plan to release the new album of DN?

I think there will be a new album comming next year....I just have to build up my new studio and record some ...but to start with I will release the last cassette of the Silence-triology on Old Europa Cafe called Behind the Wall of Silence. I like the cassette format since it was the only way to get industrial music in the early eighties.....wouldn?t say that the label like the format as much (hahaha).

I know that you have a project with Peter Andersson of RD called Bocksholm. Could you tell to our readers about this project and the date it will be released? How is it soundlike?

We wanted to do a project to express all the hate we felt for the small village where we both did grow up - Bocksholm. All the sounds we use is taken from the environments there and the sound more like harsh ambient music soon there will be a LP released on Entartete Musikk called "Radicon".

Please tell me about your another project Frozen Faces. The concept of this project, goals and news of course.

Frozen Faces are more harsh sounding and started once as my equiptment did break down as I was about to record some Deutsch Nepal material. It had a more technical concept but now it?s more music from the gender parts of your body. Deutsch Nepal is more music from the brain.

Do you have / plan to create some other projects?

I hope not as it start to be hard to keep them apart (hahaha)..but I started to play live in Brighter Death Now and I hope to have the possibillity to do this more times.

I know you have a label. Could you tell me about it, it's releases and plans. Why did you decided to start the label? Do you plan to have profit or it's underground label?

Entartete Musikk is an underground label that I have only for my own pleasure.....if I make some money it's O.K. but it's not the main thing about it. At first it was only to release my own projects but who knows what happens in the future

Harsh noise and power electronics are getting more and more attention from the public and labels. What do you think about such music? And, in your opinion, do we have a right to call power electronics as "music"? Do youlike that notorious DCD Esthetics of Cruelty?

Some Power Electronix like Genocide Organ and such that have some kind of structure is very nice. But pure noise is something that make me bored as I heard it for several years now......I thought it should disappear very fast and a lot of people start to be bored with it here in western Europe....I suppose the same thing will happen in your country after some years.. I dont think it's important if you want to call it music or not.... I'm not even sure if you couldcall the sounds I make music either..... It's just something that exist, a phenomena in our environment. The Esthetics of Cruelty compilation is just a documentation of unknown swedish projects. I like some of the projects but most of it just make me bored. I consider myself as a very bored person.

Since we began to talk about power electronics. Is that music popular in your country? Do you have clubs or something? I ask cuz in my country this kind of music isn't popular and most beople don't know even Whitehouse. Actually we don't have even a metal club and the state usually prohibits gigs. In fact two weeks ago in Minsk, the capital, police arrested all guys with long hair in the center of the city, policemen made those guys stay for long time at police office and took their fingertips, photos, etc.

The intrest for PE in Sweden is growing but that doesn't mean so much as weare a very small people it mean that 5 years ago it was 50 persons and todayabout 100....in a country 2 or 3 times the size of Belarus it's hard to bring people together for a club or even a party....which anyway happens once or twice a year. Sweden is very liberal comparing with Belarus thinking of what you telling me. Here you could allmost do anything or look anyway you want as long as you have some kind of clothes on so that you don?t embaress old ladies in the street - it's O.K.....

What do know about Belarus, my country? And what do you think that NATO and it's latest activities in Europe?

I do not know that much about your country more than it has a capitol called Minsk and that it's close to Sweden. When I was in childrenschool everything East of Sweden was a big dangerous empire I suppose that children today learn much more about Belarus than I did....I must say I do not like NATO's way of being the world police I think that USA could mind their own buisness and let others solve their problems themselves. All nations with dignity must prove their right to exist.

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