TRANZINE - How did you meet?

We met in 2006; up until then, each of us had our own separate music career. We met at a historic club in Milan called De Sade, where we were both playing on the same night. However, we both felt the need to create a new project that could bring our ideas and passions to life. At first, just like it happens with many others, we faced some difficulties, especially in learning how to perform as a duo, which was important to bring “our new philosophy” to the public. But thanks to the perseverance that has always driven us, our partnership has proven to be a winning combination, and now we are reaping the well-deserved rewards.

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TRANZINE - What does it mean to be a Cyberpunker?

The name Cyberpunkers was inspired by the "cyberpunk" culture. We have always been fascinated and interested in this style, and we also like wearing masks because they represent a fusion between the human and the machine. We feel like humanoids... made of artificial organs but still human. We are CYBERS, and we feel that way in our music, during our live performances, and even after we finish, because it’s our way of life. We are interested in various aspects of Cyberpunk culture. We support the futuristic viewpoint of the organic/mechanical fusion. Think of the stories in "Mirrorshades," where a man is contaminated by an alien virus, and thanks to the fusion of the virus with his DNA, his body is enhanced by extra-mechanical parts that strengthen his abilities, basically giving him superpowers. We also like to recreate and interpret both in our music and in our shows the typical Cyberpunk atmosphere you might feel walking down a lonely, damp street on the outskirts of a dirty city... It’s a futuristic, decadent, and gritty vision, like in *Blade Runner*, *Tokyo Decadence*, *Tetsuo the Iron Man*, and *The Matrix*, for example.