DJ Balli
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DJ Balli is the performing name of the Italian based breakcore
artist Riccardo Balli. With a past as a drummer in the straight edge
hardcore
band "Isotopi del Dolore" and as a noise music
ian in the "S.E.B." plunderphonics
collective, at the beginning of the '90s Dj Balli lost interest for music to concentrate on writing. More solid result of this shift, the book in Italian language "Anche Tu Astronauta" (1998) about the Association of Autonomous Astronauts
. Few years later in the 2000, the reconciliation with music came via the A.A.A. itself with the release of three tracks on the "Rave In Space" compilation cd. The year 2000 was also when he started his own label Sonic Belligeranza
and began DJing more regularly. Bored with the average DJs, standing and playing one record after the other, Balli got involved into the more "adventurous" turntablism
, melting his crab, flare and chirp scratch with digital glitch
from the lap-top.
In the year 2004 in response to the cliché indulged by of most of the breakcore sound he launched the two sublabels +Belligeranza and -Belligeranza dedicated to enrich his own (and hopefully many others djs one...) set with, respectively, distorted frequencies and vinyl extravaganza. To hear it from his own words: "Modern, liberated, contemporary, of a broad spectrum, experimental, stress-relieving, post-organic, vegetative, intelligent, extraordinary. These are adjectives often applied to electronic dance music
, with Dj Balli things are different".
Further musical projects associated with dj Balli: The Wrong Nigga To Fuk Wiz, Bally Corgan, Bombolo Blues Band, The Right W.A.S.P. To Play Golf Wiz and In Skatebored We Noize!
Breakcore
Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...
artist Riccardo Balli. With a past as a drummer in the straight edge
Straight edge
Straight edge is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs. It was a direct reaction to the sexual revolution, hedonism, and excess associated with punk rock. For some, this extends to not engaging in promiscuous sex, following a...
hardcore
Hardcore punk
Hardcore punk is an underground music genre that originated in the late 1970s, following the mainstream success of punk rock. Hardcore is generally faster, thicker, and heavier than earlier punk rock. The origin of the term "hardcore punk" is uncertain. The Vancouver-based band D.O.A...
band "Isotopi del Dolore" and as a noise music
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
ian in the "S.E.B." plunderphonics
Plunderphonics
Plunderphonics is a term coined by composer John Oswald in 1985 in his essay Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative. It has since been applied to any music made by taking one or more existing audio recordings and altering them in some way to make a new composition...
collective, at the beginning of the '90s Dj Balli lost interest for music to concentrate on writing. More solid result of this shift, the book in Italian language "Anche Tu Astronauta" (1998) about the Association of Autonomous Astronauts
Association of Autonomous Astronauts
The Association of Autonomous Astronauts is a worldwide network of community based groups dedicated to building their own spaceships. The AAA was founded 23 April 1995. Although many of their activities were reported as serious participation in conferences or protests against the militarization of...
. Few years later in the 2000, the reconciliation with music came via the A.A.A. itself with the release of three tracks on the "Rave In Space" compilation cd. The year 2000 was also when he started his own label Sonic Belligeranza
Sonic Belligeranza
Sonic Belligeranza is an Italian independent record company started in the year 2000 by dj Balli. Breakcore is the main style of music covered by the label so far, but since the year 2004 in response to the above-mentioned genre codification growing bigger and bigger, two new imprints were added:...
and began DJing more regularly. Bored with the average DJs, standing and playing one record after the other, Balli got involved into the more "adventurous" turntablism
Turntablism
Turntablism is the art of manipulating sounds and creating music using phonograph turntables and a DJ mixer.The word 'turntablist' was coined in 1995 by DJ Babu to describe the difference between a DJ who just plays records, and one who performs by touching and moving the records, stylus and mixer...
, melting his crab, flare and chirp scratch with digital glitch
Glitch
A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects itself, and is therefore difficult to troubleshoot...
from the lap-top.
In the year 2004 in response to the cliché indulged by of most of the breakcore sound he launched the two sublabels +Belligeranza and -Belligeranza dedicated to enrich his own (and hopefully many others djs one...) set with, respectively, distorted frequencies and vinyl extravaganza. To hear it from his own words: "Modern, liberated, contemporary, of a broad spectrum, experimental, stress-relieving, post-organic, vegetative, intelligent, extraordinary. These are adjectives often applied to electronic dance music
Electronic dance music
Electronic dance music is electronic music produced primarily for the purposes of use within a nightclub setting, or in an environment that is centered upon dance-based entertainment...
, with Dj Balli things are different".
Further musical projects associated with dj Balli: The Wrong Nigga To Fuk Wiz, Bally Corgan, Bombolo Blues Band, The Right W.A.S.P. To Play Golf Wiz and In Skatebored We Noize!
Solo Projects
- "Indagations serious and comical at around 333 bpm" 12" (Sonic Belligeranza 01, 2000)
- "Transmutations" 12" (Sonic Belligeranza 02, 2001)
- "Straight-Edge Rastafari Manifesto" 12" (Sonic Belligeranza 04, 2003)
- "From The Inside" 12" (-Belligeranza 02, 2004)
- "The Pure Spirit Of Rock'n'Roll" cd (+Belligeranza 03, 2005)
- "Otoscratch, The Ultimate Wax To Remove The Wax!" 12" (-Belligeranza 03, 2006)
- "In Skatebored We Noize!" 7" picture-disc (+Belligeranza 04, 2007)
- "Boyscouts-Ravers Must Die!" 12" (Sonic Belligeranza 08, 2007)
- "Introducing PornoGolf" 12" (-Belligeranza 04, 2007)
- "4 Seasons Pizza" 12" picture-disc (+Belligeranza 05, 2009)
- "Bally Corgan" 7" picture-disc (+Belligeranza 06, 2009)
- "Extreme 8 Bit Terror" 12" picture-disc (Sonic Belligeranza 09, 2011)
Compilation
- "Rave in Space: Association Of Autonomous Astronauts" cd (AAA01, 2000)
- "Kamikaze Club volume 3" 2 X 12" (Peace Off records, 2002)
- "Par Tous Les Trous Necessaires" cd (Cavage records, 2002)
- "Antifaf" 12" (Sphenoide records, 2003)
- "The Scariest Weapon vol. II" cd (Invasion Wreck Chords, 2004)
- "The Scariest Weapon vol. III" cd (Invasion Wreck Chords, 2005)
- "No Ep Title Ep" 12" (Intellectual Violence records, 2005)
- "Landscape vol. II" 2 X cd (Shanshui records, 2005)
- "Helping beautiful people not having sex since 2005" 12" (Intellectual Violence records, 2006)
- "Amoeba n°.1" magazine + cd (Reardrome, 2006)
- "What's The Morden? Revolution? Model?" 2 X cd (2,3,5 studio, 2007)
- "MusikMekanikCirkus" cd (France, 2008)
- "Ministry Of Shit vol.2" cd (Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society, 2008)
- "R2" CD (RDC records, 2010)
- "The Wire Tapper 26" cd (The Wire Magazine, 2011)
External links
- Sonic Belligeranza records
- http://www.soundcloud.com/sonic-belligeranza- dj Balli on SoundCloud
- www.myspace.com/djballi333 - dj Balli on My Space
- http://www.discogs.com/artist/DJ+Balli - dj Balli on Discogs
- http://www.last.fm/music/djballi333?setlang=en dj Balli on Last Fm (official page)
- http://www.ultrasonica.it/site/modules/rubriche/item.php?itemid=10 - Interview with dj Balli (in Italian)