ARTICLE BY: S.STILSON
EDITED BY: J.WARNER
OMFC was on-site and in effect for Indianapolis-based IndyMojo.com’s annual music festival, MojoStock 2011. OMFC Intern, Scott Stilson was able to sit down with California-via-Memphis based Dubstep/Lazerbass producer, Alex Epps, aka Cyberoptics. Cyberoptics hit the scene hard in 2010 with wonky filth-grinder, “Geisha”, a track that has since proven to be influential in the development of this new and experimental genre. The Cyberoptics sound is at times understated, at others on complete knob-to-eleven blast, incorporating lovely samples and leads to contrast filth with beauty, hands-in-air atmospheric sweeps with booty-dropping sub bass. Clearly a talented up-and-comer within basshead circles, Epps’ take on what many deem to be a stagnate genre may help revitalize the realm of truly hard, filthy dubstep.
OMFC: Your set melted the crowd tonight, how do you want your music to make your fans feel?
Epps: I like to feel the music I make personally. I use themes in my tracks, like in “Kong” and “Geisha”. I want my music to give you a mental picture, to get you into an intense visual mode.
OMFC: Live music is about the fans, how do you give back to your fans?
Epps: The more I can relate to them the better, I always try to respond to facebook posts as quickly as possible… I want them to spread the word that I just wanna be cool and make tracks.
OMFC: Your career is really building momentum, where do you want you music to take you?
Epps: I actually don’t want to be a DJ forever. I really want to make music for video games and movies. I want to be like Daft Punk in Tron.
OMFC: What other artists inspire you?
Epps: Liquid Stranger, Downlink, MLK, Charlie Clouser
OMFC: What large venue do you one day want to play?
Epps: I definitely want to do Starscape (starscapefestival.com). And that’s just in the states. There are so many ones in Europe, anything with Sensations Entertainment.
OMFC: What was one of your memorable shows?
Epps: All the bad experiences I have ever had were with amp blow outs, they always seem to melt. Except one time with a huge subwoofer. They had to shut me down because I caught that shit on fire!
For more on the speaker-blazing audtory annihilater that is Cyberoptics, Check out Cyberoptics Dubstep OFFICIAL: https://www.facebook.com/cyberoptics , as well as on SoundCloud : http://soundcloud.com/cyberopticsdub .
Check out the Official OMFC review for Mojostock 2011!
