It's been almost five years since Poni Hoax first shook their italo-disco infected tail feather, surprising friend and foe with their hi-energy mix-up of dance club groove and in-your-face mutant pop. With singles such as Budapest and Anti Bodies they were clutched to the collective chest of the punk-funk brigade and indie punters alike

Questions are answered by Nicolas Ker

1. What is your first memory to music?
Bombs dropping on a cambodian market

2. What is your favorite piece of equipment you use in the studio or DJing and why?
The tainted parts of my soul.

3. What is your current top 5? (artist/title/label)
M.I.A/Tricky/Tinariwen

4. Sex, Drugs or Rock 'n Roll?
Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll

5. What music outside the electronic spectrum, do you listen to?
The sound of dogs barking

6. Do you think (dance) music is able to lie?
Music is the big lie

7. What is the last book you have read and what did you think of it?
Dostoievski's Karamazov and it was amazing like everything Dostoievski wrote.

8. Are all your friends involved in (dance) music?
Of course not, and that's a huge relief.

9. What would you do with a million ping pong balls?
I'd try to drown them, Sisyphus-style.

10. What can we expect of you in the near future?
More lies.