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Artist
KKD
12+ albums
minimal wavenew waveminimal synthcoldwavedarkwave
about
Electronic synth new wave band part of the holy grail of the Italian wave and post-punk scene. The Story: The Apple 2E lights up the darkness in the bed room of Alessandro Molinari and Giancarlo Vitali, both graduates of Fermi di Modena, considered to be the cradle of the Italian Silicon Valley. It was at Fermi that they began to get a taste for chemical-electronic experiments in the world of music, founding the band Ozono Lysis to grab hold of the New Wave sound. But tuning into the new trend is not enough: they want to dive deeper, explore in ways that are more pure, more free. And it is in this spirit that in 1981, KKD is born. The dilapidated hotel where they meet to rehearse with a few bands from the underground scene in Modena has a certain atmospheric genius: it inspires creativity, dreams and debasement. Here, Alessandro Molinari and Giancarlo Vitali decide to begin a collaboration for KKD with Loris Barbi, lead vocalist for Ozono Lysis, and Guido Molinari, on keyboards for Polaroyd. Sounds stolen from the radio and from the street, noises, interference: every reverberation—captured, re-worked, combined with electric drums, with synthesizers—serves to create a newly sonorous sound. Recorded voices are distorted with a Texas voice translator; electric guitars are manipulated by a Korg MS20. These and other experiments with old tools, combined with the first electronic instruments, create the unmistakable sound of KKD. But even music is not enough for them; they p
