First of all Zero A.D. is a story of friendship. The year Zero as the time for a new start, while A and D also stand respectively for Andrea Tomasich and Diego Bardari, project’s co-founders. They met in June 1995, few minutes before taking the train from Rome to Milan (Italy) to attend the concert…
Dan Beck was born in the suburbs of Copenhagen in the early seventies. He grew up with pop music in all sorts of styles and especially Depeche Mode made a great impact and is, until this day, still one of his favorites. In late 1984 he first meet his now longtime friend Ole Ulrich Jensen…
Mechatronic was formed 2002 in the city of Uppsala, Sweden. The members are Wilhelm Äretun (singing and programming) and Emma Hortlund (lyrics and synthesizers). Together they make synth pop with a mixture of danceable beats and sharp melodies. In August 2011 Mechatronic signed a record deal with Space Race Records and released the critically acclaimed…
Halo Effect started in the autumn of 2001, thanks to the union of different musical experiences. The atmosphere of their music ranges from Synthpop to EBM, through Darkwave, with some more experimental passages. The intense live activity, has led them to play in various parts of Italy and abroad, sharing the stage with artists like…
TourdeForce (Christian Ryder) is an electronic music project founded in Bergamo – Northern Italy, in the year 2004. Sure that the use of technology and electronic devices in music does not imply a lack of creativity or absence of feelings in music, TourdeForce communicates the suffering in the West progressive decadence, the loss of tragic…
Since the release of the first demo-CD “Deep Pink Water” there are only five years passed. Now Gimme Shelter puts the first official album titled “Warnemünde” out to public. The work contains twelve catchy songs and could remind many listeners to the music of the heroes of Depeche Mode. But there are still modern aspects.…
KLONAVENUS was born in Rome during 2005, after the meeting of Saffio (music & programming) and Paolo Chemnitz (vocals & lyrics). After two acclaimed demos, Klonavenus signed a contract with The Fossil Dungeon (an american digital music label) and released “Metropolights” during 2007. This EP was ‘top demo’ on Ritual Magazine, the most important magazine…
Para Normal was founded by the duo of Rodlek Konde and Mario Monk in 2005 inspired by synth legends DM, Leæther Strip, XMTP, etc. After a few live gigs and some demos almost immediately they got signed on the BLC Productions label in North America appearing on some compilations of the same label and a…
Endless Shame is an alternative band from the south of Sweden. Their music is mainly electronic but it also contains guitar, bass, percussion and other live instruments. The style of the music is a mixture of elctro, synth pop, alternative rock and EBM. Endless Shame started out as a band in the early 90′s but it…
MonsterGod are Schnitter (vocal, keyboard, sampling ) and Smola (keyboard, sampling, programming). The idea of MonsterGod formed at the end of 2004 as a result of experience and experiments with various types of independent music carried out during the past few years. The year 2005 was the period filled with work connected with finding a…
Public Domain Resource is an Italian, Bergamo-based, music project. PDR was established in 2012 as Pietro Oliveri’s solo project and in Aug. 2012 the song Under The Ground reached the 3rd place in the Industrial Music chart on Soundclick.com. In Sept 2012 a second song, Nemesis-The Third Day reached the 2nd place in the IDM…
Defining their musical sound as Nordic Noir, new ground is explored using classic electronic sounds. With an intentional and deliberate blending of the old with the new a melancholic hopefulness is created from the dark seasons of life in Scandinavia. Out of this is formed We The North. Photo by Magnus Eklund
Ole Ulrich Jensen, was born in the early seventies, in the suburbs of Copenhagen. He was an avid listener of music from an early age and progressed into making music in his late teens, with his lifelong friend and fellow Vaylon member, Dan Holte Beck. They started out using only a guitar, bass, effect box and…
It all started in 1994, with three guys from a small place outside Fredrikstad, Norway. They formed a band with the name Spektralized. Soon, after the first demo, they started to get request for playing live. They did play some shows in the south of Norway with a good response. Late 1994 they released a…
Zero-Eq is an an Italian project active since 2004 in the genre of synthpop , electropop and Electrowave . Founded in 2003 by Phenix (Andrea ) and IO (Gianluca ), they began with a full (and unreleased) album, “Greatest Hits 2003/2004”, from which has been extracted “Toy Box”, whose remix (by DJ CROW) has been…
Dead Man Recovering is a one-man-project consisting of singer, songwriter and producer Kenneth S. Larsen. The style is melodic old school synthpop with some modern flavours and songs are almost always written using a guitar. Kenneth is from Copenhagen, Denmark, but is now located in Malmo, Sweden, where he is doing his recordings in his…
NOISE TRADE COMPANY is an electro post punk duo born in 2008. NTC’s immediate and essential musical style clearly takes its inspiration from the music which marked the passage between late 70’s and early 80’s: the legendary works of artists like Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Clock DVA, The Normal, Fad Gadget, Wire, P.I.L., Suicide, DNA,…
Dio<X>ide is formed by Andrea Bellucci and Andrew Lagowski. Lagowski has been making and recording electronic music since 1982 and before that was a drummer in a new wave band. Since 1987 he has released over 30 albums and ten 12” singles and continues to release on various labels Worldwide. Projects include Nagamatzu (co-founder, guitarist,…
Inventiveness and refinement strongly characterize the sound of Italians NODe, which name stands for ‘Not Ordinary Dead’. The music created by this project goes beyond the ordinary stereotypes to which the listener is accustomed, ensuring him an uninterrupted flow of active entertainment and sonic spectacularity. The main element that makes this ensemble so unique is…
Nine Seconds are ex-Sleepwalk-singer Oliver Spring and the No Comment founders Rene Ebner and Thomas Kowa. The synergy between these protagonists generates high-graded electro/synthpop emissions that found their structures on the enthralling and obscure vitality created by the variable drum-programming scans and poisonous vocals: the techno-sound that comes out from the equipment surpasses each stop…
Lost Reality is a project which dates back to 1996 and has undergone a radical evolution over time. The style of music performed by the group nowadays is an Electro / Darkwave / alternative genre. In 1999, the group was contacted by an American record label based in Rome and proposed that the group put…
The Donamorte project (Italy) came into being in 2011 from an idea by Armando “Donamorte” Ammerata, (vocalist) along with the brilliant collaboration of Garmo on programming and Kaos K on guitars. Our sound is an explosive mix of Gothic, Industrial and Darkwave. We always endeavour to give our best during the drafting of our songs,the…
2nd Civilization started off in the late 80’s as a hobby project: a couple of guys jamming together on their first drum computers and synthesizers. Influenced by Kraftwerk, DAF, Front 242 and others, some demo tapes were released, to great (local) critical acclaim. In 1991, a full album was recorded in a professional 32-track studio.…
Retrogramme is a Washington DC-based electronic music act that has cultivated a strong underground buzz with their wide-range of sophisticated electronic styles and influences. Rob Early, the principal synthesist and programmer, Nikk Allen, the primary songwriter, and Dmitry Pavlovsky, the lead vocalist weave IDM, synthpop, darkwave, and ambient sounds into their own distinctive style which…
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