DreDDup
Encyclopedia
dreDDup is a Serbia
n industrial rock
/crossover band.
. The band's first official release was Abnormal Waltz from 1998, the soundtrack for the movie Noir that was never finished. Following this, band wrote music for movies and theater plays (Poslednja Krapova Traka, Footfalls
, U malom dvorcu, Hronika Sterijinog pozorja, and others) and recorded ambient sounds for TV shows at the Radio Television of Serbia
. They recorded their first official studio album Mr Borndeads Feast in 2004, released for MoocSound. Album release was followed by a Serbian tour.
After Mr Borndeads Feast and positive reviews from the press, band started making their second album changing the sound and making it more crossover. Future Porn Machine
was released in 2007 for Insurrection Records from Belgrade. This album dealt with "pornographic future". Another tour took place and the band visited more than 40 cities. Almost complete line-up of the band was changed in the beginning of 2008 and the band started working on the new sound. In late 2008, they have also remixed some of Nine Inch Nails
song, did a collaboration album with Japanese spoken word artist Kenji Siratori and recorded a DIY cover album 'Into the Monolith' for their friends and fans.
dreDDup played at numerous music festivals from 2006 to 2009, including the EXIT Festival, String, Refuse Resist 6 Samhain, Go Fest, Determination and D:S. At the end of the year the band filmed a 'Industrial Renaissance' DVD, a 45 minute long movie about the band, containing the complete video clip collection and some rare live video footage which was previously unreleased. It was released in February 2009 and was selected to be a bonus DVD for their 2009 album El Conquistadors
.
El Conquistadors was released for Insurrection Records from Belgrade. Album dealt with dark present tense and the darkness of mankind, completing the Time trilogy in dreDDup releases, showing the new sound of the band and much more industrial approach. This album changed the sound of the band making it darker. Album was pronounced the second best Balkan album of the year 2009 by the Croatia
n webzine Terapija and also went up to third place in Macedonian
Okno magazine article about best acts in 2009. In 2010 their album El Conquistadors was re-mastered and re-released for Beast of Prey Records from Poland
. The same album was re-released in 2011 for dPulse Recordings from USA.
Their new forth self-titled album is released for dPulse Recordings from USA also. This album contains 16 totally new dreDDup songs and is the darkest one yet. This was also announced as the last dreDDup studio album. The band will continue to perform live but stated that they are not sure if there will be another album. The next project of dreDDup is re-recording of their first official album 'Mr. Borndeads Feast'. Collection of their demo recordings called 219_demos was released for Dark:Scene records. These recordings go back to their period 1997-2001.
, Bile
, The Prodigy
, The Stooges
and Borghesia
. Today, they sound like a crossover of every genre they get in touch with.
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
n industrial rock
Industrial rock
Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...
/crossover band.
History
dreDDup was formed in 1997 in Novi SadNovi Sad
Novi Sad is the capital of the northern Serbian province of Vojvodina, and the administrative centre of the South Bačka District. The city is located in the southern part of Pannonian Plain on the Danube river....
. The band's first official release was Abnormal Waltz from 1998, the soundtrack for the movie Noir that was never finished. Following this, band wrote music for movies and theater plays (Poslednja Krapova Traka, Footfalls
Footfalls
Footfalls is a play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English, between 2 March and December 1975 and was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Samuel Beckett Festival, on May 20, 1976 directed by Beckett himself. Billie Whitelaw, for whom the piece had been written, played...
, U malom dvorcu, Hronika Sterijinog pozorja, and others) and recorded ambient sounds for TV shows at the Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia
Radio Television of Serbia or Serbian Broadcasting Corporation is the public broadcaster in Serbia. It broadcasts and produces a variety of news, drama, and sports programming through radio, television and the Internet. RTS is, since July 2001, a member of the European Broadcasting Union. RTS is...
. They recorded their first official studio album Mr Borndeads Feast in 2004, released for MoocSound. Album release was followed by a Serbian tour.
After Mr Borndeads Feast and positive reviews from the press, band started making their second album changing the sound and making it more crossover. Future Porn Machine
Future Porn Machine
Future Porn Machine is the second official album of Serbian industrial group dreDDup. It was first released in 2007 for the Belgrade record label Insurrection Records. This was the second album that had a complete story behind it. This album talks about the future of mankind taking us far into the...
was released in 2007 for Insurrection Records from Belgrade. This album dealt with "pornographic future". Another tour took place and the band visited more than 40 cities. Almost complete line-up of the band was changed in the beginning of 2008 and the band started working on the new sound. In late 2008, they have also remixed some of Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails
Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
song, did a collaboration album with Japanese spoken word artist Kenji Siratori and recorded a DIY cover album 'Into the Monolith' for their friends and fans.
dreDDup played at numerous music festivals from 2006 to 2009, including the EXIT Festival, String, Refuse Resist 6 Samhain, Go Fest, Determination and D:S. At the end of the year the band filmed a 'Industrial Renaissance' DVD, a 45 minute long movie about the band, containing the complete video clip collection and some rare live video footage which was previously unreleased. It was released in February 2009 and was selected to be a bonus DVD for their 2009 album El Conquistadors
El Conquistadors
El Conquistadors is the third official album of Serbian industrial group dreDDup. It was first released in 2009 for the Belgrade record label Insurrection Records. This was the third album that had a complete story behind it...
.
El Conquistadors was released for Insurrection Records from Belgrade. Album dealt with dark present tense and the darkness of mankind, completing the Time trilogy in dreDDup releases, showing the new sound of the band and much more industrial approach. This album changed the sound of the band making it darker. Album was pronounced the second best Balkan album of the year 2009 by the Croatia
Croatia
Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...
n webzine Terapija and also went up to third place in Macedonian
Republic of Macedonia
Macedonia , officially the Republic of Macedonia , is a country located in the central Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe. It is one of the successor states of the former Yugoslavia, from which it declared independence in 1991...
Okno magazine article about best acts in 2009. In 2010 their album El Conquistadors was re-mastered and re-released for Beast of Prey Records from Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
. The same album was re-released in 2011 for dPulse Recordings from USA.
Their new forth self-titled album is released for dPulse Recordings from USA also. This album contains 16 totally new dreDDup songs and is the darkest one yet. This was also announced as the last dreDDup studio album. The band will continue to perform live but stated that they are not sure if there will be another album. The next project of dreDDup is re-recording of their first official album 'Mr. Borndeads Feast'. Collection of their demo recordings called 219_demos was released for Dark:Scene records. These recordings go back to their period 1997-2001.
Musical style
Music of dreDDup is a mixture of dark noisy sounds with rough industrial rhythm followed by metallic vocals. They are mostly influenced by post industrial music scene of the 1980s and the mid 1990s. They have changed their sound since 1997 but were always within the industrial/post-industrial boundaries. After experimenting with weird noises and rough drum beats they embraced commercial segments in their sound, making it more popular for some wider range of listeners. As their influences they list LaibachLaibach (band)
Laibach is a Slovenian avant-garde music group associated with industrial, martial, and neo-classical musical styles. Laibach formed June 1, 1980 in Trbovlje, Slovenia . Laibach represents the music wing of the Neue Slowenische Kunst art collective, of which it was a founding member in 1984...
, Bile
Bile (band)
Bile is an industrial metal project based in the New York City, USA area. Although there has been many different members throughout the bands career, Krztoff is the songwriting, recording and conceptual leader...
, The Prodigy
The Prodigy
The Prodigy are an English electronic dance music group formed by Liam Howlett in 1990 in Braintree, Essex. Along with Fatboy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, and other acts, The Prodigy have been credited as pioneers of the big beat genre, which achieved mainstream popularity in the 1990s and 2000s...
, The Stooges
The Stooges
The Stooges are an American rock band from Ann Arbor, Michigan first active from 1967 to 1974, and later reformed in 2003...
and Borghesia
Borghesia
Borghesia is a Slovenian electronic music / rock music group, created in Ljubljana in 1982. The band was formed by members of the alternative theatre group Theatre FV-112/15. Borghesia created its aesthetics using the imagery of prohibited, tabooed and repressed...
. Today, they sound like a crossover of every genre they get in touch with.
Studio albums
- Mr Borndeads Feast (2004)
- Future Porn MachineFuture Porn MachineFuture Porn Machine is the second official album of Serbian industrial group dreDDup. It was first released in 2007 for the Belgrade record label Insurrection Records. This was the second album that had a complete story behind it. This album talks about the future of mankind taking us far into the...
(2007) - El ConquistadorsEl ConquistadorsEl Conquistadors is the third official album of Serbian industrial group dreDDup. It was first released in 2009 for the Belgrade record label Insurrection Records. This was the third album that had a complete story behind it...
(2009) - dreDDup (album)DreDDup (album)dreDDup is the fourth official album of Serbian industrial group dreDDup. It was recordeng during the period 2008-2010 in DURU studio. Band tried to do something completely different and changed their sound do massacre crossover abandoning the original sound. This is the first album with the...
(2011) - Nautilus (2013)
Demo Cassettes
- R U Digitall !? (2002 demo tape)
- Abnormal Waltz (1998 demo album, reissued in 2007)
Side projects & acts
- Mrt, experimental ambient industrial
- cUtNpAsTe, industrial metal