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Interview: Darge
by Glauco Mingau (Death from Above) (glauco.mingau@gmail.com)

Photos: Eder Sales Cave

2011/07

Darge

01-When and how you formed the band? Explain how started.
Oze: After my former band 'ARIZE' finished at the end of 2003, I forced my friends and formed 'Darge' in the summer of 2004. We were four of us to start with, but after a few member changes, we became current three of us!

02-Who are the members of the band and they play?
Oze: Vo/Gt=OZE,Vo/Ba=RAFAEL,Dr=SHINNOSUKE

03-You guys have or have had other activities besides the band? other bands, label, fanzines, etc ...
Oze: Oze is just doing 'Darge', Rafael is in a ultra metallic thrash band 'N.E.K.' and he also does management for a label called 'KARASU KILLER RECORDS'. Shinnosuke is in a new wave gothic punk band called 'JUBILEE'.

04-What are your musical influences and what are your favorite bands?
Oze: Oze is influenced by S.D.S. and European hardcore and all other punk and hardcore bands, Rafael is influenced by punk, hardcore, Grindcore for sure and now he is into metal, doom and stoner, Shinnosuke is more abroad and hybrid! Each of us has a different taste so we don't know why but we are having fun!

05-How is the local scene, what bands are more friendly, live spaces for the event, interaction of band and peoples, finally, there is an active scene and support of the public who go to concerts?
Oze: The local scene for punk and hardcore aren't that great but the number of bands and events are increasing so the scene is rising! There aren't any bands who are specially close to us. Everybody has their own thought and I'm inspired by that. There are some live houses and the bars we can have live in Gifu, but our main venues are 'Gifu 51' and 'King Biscuit'! Through Rafael, lots of Brazilian, American, Argentine and etc. come to our gig, the audience can enjoy the atmosphere of mixture between Japanese and foreign poeple. So far we haven't had any trouble between different type of audiences, they all cooperate with lives and events. If lots of trouble happens, bands and live houses will be in difficult situations and the audiences won't be able to have good times, so friends of Darge are helpful!

06-We know that in Japan there's a punk, hardcore very big and active scene despite being a small country. There are punk, anarcho, hardcore, crust, etc… Is there any difference between the scenes in Japan, say in the direction of attending (or not) the same shows, or if there is fighting and divergences between it and the scene in Japan?!
Oze: All of Japanese punk and hardcore bands are great! They all support tours and take care of bands from abroad. They are doing very well considering their living condition. As long as I know. there are no fights neither troubles between different type of people.They all behave according to their own tastes of music, attitudes and fashions!

07-In May 2010, Darge was doing a tour in Brazil.What you liked this tour and how was the experience of living with so many different scenes, places, foods and beverages. Was there anything you disliked? or something that bothered you? make a general summary of that experience in Brazil.
Oze: It was difficult as Darge's first foreign country tour was Brazil but everything was so fresh and very stimulative! People in each places had different band styles, tastes of music and fashion!!! The most impressive town for me was Goiania, there were so many audiences and the atmosphere was so great and hot!! And also we were happy playing a cover song of DISCLOSE with Glauco (DEATH FROM ABOVE). But we decided to have the session in no time so we had to go and buy Disclose's CD there.Food wise, I really liked a big humbergar called 'X-Tudo! And churrasco which I had at Cherry's(HELL SAKURA) was so tasty! I was surprised there were water with gas and without! I wanted to have the one without but I bought the one with gas by mistake. We were expecting some disadvantages before Brazilian tour but we couldn't cope with a hole in the bass drum and the chair for the drums were ordinary chair and couldn't get sound out from the bass amp. We are a band so we can not play without proper setting even in basic.

8. About the bands that played with Darge what was most impressive and why?
Oze: The most impressive band I saw in Brazil was 'LOBOTOMIA'! I already liked them before I went to Brazil and I was so glad I could see them playing my favourite song 'NADA E COMO PARECE' in live! And I happened to like a lot of Brazilian bands like 'NO MASTERS', 'DEATH FROM ABOVE', 'DESASTRE', UNFIT SCUM', 'NUCLEAR FROST', 'TERROR REVOLUCIONARIO', UNDER THE RUINS', 'D.E.R.' etc.

9. After Brazil Tour 2010, MCR Company released a DVD of this tour , how was the production? The band had in mind what I wanted to capture? And how did the idea of putting bonus of the bands you played together? How is the distribution? Received good reviews on the dvd?
Oze: We made our tour DVD with Mr. Yumikes and editing engineer at MCR Company in Kyoto! We decided the structure of DVD before we went to Brazil but in reality, we couldn't film what we wanted then it didn't become as we planned. Yes, we had plan of putting Brazilian bands in our DVD. We wanted Japanese people to know about Brazilian bands we saw there. We distributed our DVDs through out the shops in Japan who have connections with MCR Company. We also sent some copies to Brazil! Umm, I don't know about reviews? But we are happy we made fun and perverse DVD like us.

10-What are the next plans of the band? They want to return to Brazil? What are the next releases?
Oze: We will be releasing CD '4 WAY FOR DESTRUCTION 2' from Rafael's label KARASU KILLER RECORDS. The idea of making This CD came from our Brazilian tour. This CD includes DARGE and DISGUST from Japan and DEATH FROM ABOVE and UNFIT SCUM from Brazil! We will be having the CD releasing gig at Gifu 51 on 27th August. DARGE, DISGUST(Nagoya), UNHOLY GRAVE(Nagoya), RIVERGE(Osaka) and G.I.D. will be playing! I'd like to got to Brazil again but it's depends of the money situation and timing! In reality, it's quite tough.

11-Leave a message from Darge to the Japanese and brazilian readers.
Oze: Check it out '4WAY FOR DESTRUCTION 2'! We'll be glad if you feel something after listening to it. Let's meet at the gig if we go to Brazil again!

Contacts:
dargepunk@yahoo.com
rafael@karasukiller.com
http://www.myspace.com/dargepunk