Fisherspooner is the creation of Warren Fischer and Casey Spooner, an avangard performance group out of New York. The music style is electroclash - a brand of synthetic punk music using not guitars and drums but the traditional tools of the 80s musician: synthesiser, vocoder, sampled handclaps, sequenced bass. Fischerspooner's full-length debut album, #1, is out on the 25th of February.

 Recently Casey Spooner was in Copenhagen promoting the album and Clubbing Magazine had the change to hear his story.

 Warren Fisher comes from Los Angeles and has a background as a violinist. At the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 he met Casey in the video arts class. For Casey painting, visual art, video have always been a part of his life. “I’ve always been thinking in visuals and seeing things, I’ve been into spoken words, photography and video installations and been looking for a way to communicate with people, and the best way to do this one to one, is pop music”, he explains.

 Casey and Warren made their first performance as a two-piece band in a New York Starbucks; today they are up to 20 people on stage in full fashion, glam and glamour outfit and their shows have now cult status. Casey explains; “We have an A, B, C and D setup, from around 20 people down to a secret night club appearances, I think we will bring the B or C setup for the upcoming tour. Every decade has it eccentric performance acts, e.g. David Bowie, Peter Gabriel (Genesis period) and Elton John, it’s all done to create an illusion and to entertain the audience”.

 The debut album #1 has been it making for some years; “When we started doing the music, it was a time where Warren and I had a lot of time on our hands. We had some video footage that we wanted to do a soundtrack for. He got a cracked version of ReBirth and stated doing different rhythms and sounds, and slowly we came up with some songs, I came with some structures and lyrics. We wanted to do pop music that was accessible to people, but something that you haven’t heard before”. He moves on “For Warren it was a fresh break from his audiophile attitude, coming from the Chicago guitar environment, where the equipment is more important than the music”.

 “The album has been long underway, and people have said why does it take so long, but we wanted to have complete artistic control of what we put out. I’ve had all the songs storyboarded for video, and together with the release of the album a DVD will be included with a background video, photo gallery, four videos and 12 remixes of “Emerge” including the Junike XL remix. It’s not normal to release a DVD together with the album, normally this is something that is done at the end, but it’s a good way to see what Fisherspooner is about” .

  “The album was first released in a limited 1000 copies edition by us and later on Gigolo records in Germany. Then on Ministry Of Sound for the UK marked and now on EMI/Capitol Records for the rest of the world.”, he goes on “This was the plan all the way, but we knew that we had to take our music to Germany first, then the UK and then the rest of the world.- it was always the goal to come home again”.

 When you listen to the Fisherspooner’s music, you will get a sense of 1980’ electronica music with a twist in the vocal build-up. Fisherspooner themselves take a distance to this. “When people began comparing our music with the 80’, we began to go against it with high hats and outfits from the 1880’. Warren and I thought it would be interesting doing tracks that varied in rhymed and tempo, that breaks with the traditional music, and we where very inspired by world pop music”. He moves on “I had certain rules on what I couldn’t write about, e.g. the future, technology and the autobahn".

 The New edition of the album includes 3 new tracks "Sweetness", "LA Song" and "Megacolon". 

 No doubt that Warren and Casey is a group to keep an eye out for in the future. A remix of Kyile Minogue “Come Into My World” and a performance of the same song on Top Of The Pops has already set the tone of what to come. The singles “Emerge” and “The 15^th” is also out now.

 "Looks good / Feels good / Sounds good" – a mantra from Fisherspooner to live by.