Futurecop! interview

Futurecop! will perform @ Plissken Festival next week (the competition to win tickets runs through December 2nd, hurry up), so we asked, they answered

Tell all about the new album "It's Forever, Kids"
The album is influenced by our love of the 80s. Especially the movies, cartoons and video games we grew up with. So we wanted to also play around with nostalgia too in the album. However unlike our previous ep we have now made the sounds we created into pop songs using various vocalists. When deciding to create the album we wanted to make tracks that were very pop, uplifting and innocent just like they did in the 80s.


You obviously love the 80s. So, what's about the 80s that is so appealing to so many artists these days?
I cant speak for everyone however it was a time when i think the world did speculate about the future a lot more, for instance the increased use of synths and computers in music. For us it was a very creative decade in movies and cartoons: i mean the transformers cartoon is based in 2005! they actually thought all this would be going on by then! so you can see how inspiring and creative it was.

Name your most fond memories of the 80s.
Well we were only babies in the 80s but i think just the feeling of being a kid i.e no responsibilities, your learning new things all the time, everything is just nice and inspiring around you and TV was a big way how we could lose ourselves into another world, especially at that time of cartoons and movies which were very creative, fun and futuristic for instance transformers, thundercats, flight of the navigator. This is probably why we became so obsessed with it all again few years ago as we were growing up.

Name your best bands/music of the 80s

Van Halen, Stan Bush, A-Ha but our main influences are the soundtracks to cartoon and movies made by various composers like Shuki Levy and Harold Faltermeyer , there are a lot of one hit wonders we like too as most were featured soundtracks for movies e.g .Lisa Lougheed - run with us, Sally Dworsky - Run with us, Bricklin - Walk Away, Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to take our clothes off, Robert Tepper - No Easy Way Out, Robbie Rob - In Time, When Alan Silvestri did Robot Romp. Theres loads more but we would be here all day!

Name your best movies of the 80s
In no particular order (except for the first one ha) - Transformers (1986 movie), License to drive, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Back to the Future, Karate Kid, The Wizard, Flight of the navigator, Planes trains and automobiles, Ghostbusters, Big, Beverly Hills Cop, Big Trouble In Little China, Bloodsport, Breakfast Club, Class of 1984, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, Flight of the navigator, Goonies, Gremlins, Labyrinth, Legend, Masters of the Universe, NeverEnding Story, Over The Top, Short Circuit 2, Teen Wolf

Name your favorite icon of the 80s.
Theres were too many: Cyndi Lauper: shes got such an amazing style, Hot Rod from Transformers (coolest hipster robot ever ha), the 2 Coreys, Michael J fox, Bill and Ted etc


Name one thing in this world that isn't negotiable.
love