THE ZONDERS es un colectivo de artistas formados por dos ilustradores alemanes llamados DIETER DUNKEL y WOLFGANG 3000. Su estilo está totalmente inspirado en la visión futuristica de los años 80s y principio de los 90s y son la imagen gráfica de muchas bandas increíbles en la actualidad como RUSS CHIMES y STEED LORD. Actualmente Sicario trabaja en la realización de una playera de edición limitada SICARIO X THE ZONDERS por lo que nos concedieron una entrevista que les presentamos a continuación…

• HOW DID EVERYTHING START?
  It’s our passion to create a visual reflection of the music we listen to. It started back in the days when we were kids
  - each of us was drawing band names and comix
  - it was the time when music, art & culture became the center of our attention.

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• WHAT ARE YOUR MAIN INFLUENCES? (wich video games, artists, music, books etc…)
  Art by:
  Wentzel Jamnitzer, MC Escher, Neo Rauch, Mark Ryden, Seen, Hex, Pushead, Boris Vallejo, Hajime Sorayama, HR Giger, A. Warhol, JM Basquiat, The Fillmore Art Scene, Syd Mead, K. Otomo, Klarwein, Rick Griffin, Polish Poster Art, el bosco, Kishiro, Jean Giraud, Doze Green.

  Books by:
  Karl Richard Lepsius, Joseph Campbell, Philip K Dick, Isaac Asimov, William Gibson.

  Music by:
  C. Debussy, Karlheinz Stockhausen, The Can, Klaus Schulze, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Bernie Worrell, Sun Ra, Robert Moog, Roger Troutman, Kool Keith, Gerald Donald, Gary Numan, Bad Brains, Black Flagg, Detroit Techno Electro Scene, Sheffield Warp Label, Manchester Skam, Japanese Game Soundtracks.

  Movies by:
  Stanley Kubrick, Alejandro Jodorowsky, David Lynch, Andrei Tarkowski , Quay Brothers, Jan Švankmajer, Masamune Shirow.

  Games:
  Classic: Xenon II Megablast, Turrican, Phantasystar, another world.
  Modern: Ikaruga, Bakuretsu Muteki Bangaioh.
  System: Dreamcast – Mega Drive

• WHO WOULD YOU LIKE TO WORK WITH (ARTISTS)
  Let’s say we would like to work on a project with following artists:
  Project – Short Movie:
  - Music by Danava, M83, Klaus Schulze, Jeff Mills & Mike Banks
  - with a conceptual design by Syd Mead
  - Director: Jodorowski & Giraud
  - SFX Supervisor : Douglas Trumbull
  - Actor: Christopher Walken as John Difool.
• WHAT WOULD BE THE ARTWORK THAT YOU ARE MOST PROUD OF?
  Our artworks animated for the music of our fave musicans.
• WHAT IS THE PROCESS IN CREATING YOUR WORK?
  -1st of all switchin the phone off & goin to a quiet place
  - a kind of creative playground which is a alternative to the daily battlefield
  - smokin a cig
  - sippin a coffee & listen to good music.
  -2nd discuss a idea & a conceptual design
  - goin crazy , makin sketches, storyboards & research.
  -3rd workin out the previews
  - discuss them
  - finding the final look
  - and goin on step by step to finalize the project.
• TOP FIVE UPCOMING MUSIC ARTISTS?
  Danava, M83, Tim Simenon, Miami Horror, Russ Chimes
• WHAT IS THE MOST AMAZING SHOW THAT YOU VE SEEN LIVE?
  Download festival
  Metalmania
  Wacken Open Air
  Full Force Festival
  Kraftwerk, early 90’s – as the crowd took over the remote control for the keyboards
  The Prodigy – early 90’s
  Warp Label Night in Amsterdam in the 90’s

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