I-F

I-f (also Interr-Ference) is the stage name of Ferenc E. van der Sluijs, a Dutch producer and DJ based in The Hague. He is a former member of the Dutch techno-pioneers Unit Moebius.

I-F
Ferenc van der Sluijs (2011)
Background information
Also known as	Interr-Ference
Origin	The Hague, Netherlands
Genres	Electronic, electro, electroclash, pop, Italo disco, chiptune
Years active	1996-present
Labels	Disko B EFA Viewlexx

Overview

In 1997 he produced the track "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass",^[2] which became a huge underground dance hit and is often cited as an early example of electroclash.^[1] It introduced "old-fashioned verse-chorus dynamics to burbling electro in a vocodered homage to Atari-era hi-jinks" and is the "record widely credited with catalysing" the electroclash movement.^[1]

The album Fucking Consumer was released in 1998 on the Disko B label, followed by The Man From Pack the next year. In 1999 he also made the mixed album Mixed Up In the Hague Vol. 1,^[3][4] which has been cited by many, including Morgan Geist, as being the catalyst that brought renewed interest in Italo disco.^[5]

I-f was featured on the seminal 2002 Ghostly International compilation Disco Nouveau. He has also recorded as The Parallax Corporation with Intergalactic Gary. I-f currently runs a record label called Viewlexx.^[6] He also ran the internet radio station Cybernetic Broadcasting System (CBS).^[7] It was closed down in 2008 but is now one of four channels on Intergalactic FM, which is also operated by I-f.

Discography

• 1995 – Portrait Of A Dead Girl 1: The Cause
• 1997 – The Brown Elbow Conspiracy
• 1997 – "Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass"^[8]
• 1997 – Playstation #2
• 1998 – Fucking Consumer
• 1999 – The Man From Pack

See also

• Intergalactic FM