Decoded Feedback is a

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musical project which incorporates styles of

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and

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. The duo releases music on the North American distributor

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, and the European

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Infacted Recordings.

History

Decoded Feedback was formed in 1993 by the Italian Marco Biagiotti (vocals, lyrics, samples, sequences, arrangement, basses and drums) and the Hungarian Yone Dudas (keyboards, sequences, arrangement, samples, basses, drums and lyrics) while they were both living in Italy. The duo met in an industrial night club in Budapest, Hungary and developed a friendship through EBM and industrial music that led to a collaboration for producing original music. Their

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entitled ''Decoded Feedback'' was reviewed by the Belgian industrial music magazine Side-Line, which led to the group being signed to the

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an label, Hard Records. The group relocated to Toronto, Canada in 1995 and a year later Hard Records released their first full-length CD, ''Overdosing''. Due to format changes at Hard Records, the label began letting go of most of their signed artists but Hard Records' Christian Rosén liked their music so much that he introduced the band to Torben Schmidt at

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. Zoth Ommog released Decoded Feedback's second disc, ''Technophoby'', in 1997. Since then, American industrial music distributors

have released domestic versions of all subsequent Decoded Feedback albums. In 2000, Biagiotti and Dudas signed to the record label Bloodline to release ''Mechanical Horizon'', which was preceded by the first ever Decoded Feedback single, "Reflect in Silence". Three years later, Decoded Feedback switched to their current European record label, Out of Line, and released ''Shockwave'', which was preceded by a single, "Phoenix". In 2005, they released ''Combustion'' as well as contributing the soundtrack for the Cindy Murdoch's short zombie film, ''Red Men Rising'' (music credited to Yone). The 2010s yielded three albums: ''Aftermath'', released in 2010, ''disKonnekt'' in 2012, and ''Dark Passenger'' released in 2016. The single from ''Dark Passenger'' entitled "Waiting for the Storm" inspired the creation of and provided the working title for the full-length feature film
Strangers at the Door
' by director Rogelio Salinas. Several of their albums have ranked on the German Alternative Charts including ''Bio-Vital'', released in 1998, ''Shockwave'', voted #3 Top International Album of 2003, and ''Aftermath'' voted #5 on May 27, 2010 and staying on the DAC for 7 weeks reaching #2.

Live

Decoded Feedback conducted their first U.S. tour in 1998 and have played several live shows in Europe. The band spent the greater part of 2001 touring with Noisex and

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and again in 2003 with

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. They have played the

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, the Blacksun Festival in the USA, Infest 2005, and the Out of Line Festival, as well as touring with fellow Metropolis Records bands

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and Blutengel. In Toronto, Canada, at the EBM Fest 2008, they played as a DJ set because Marco was not present.

Philosophy and style

Yone studied at

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in Toronto for a short time, but otherwise the duo had no formal music training. Both Yone and Marco cite early electronic music - e.g.:

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and

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- as well as

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as influences. Yone cites

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and

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as further influences, while Marco cites an affinity for

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. Both members have also cited the tensions that exist between sexes and international boundaries, as well as their unique backgrounds, as a driving force behind their music - especially in an attempt to create their own unique style. They originally experimented with the fusion of punk and electro, but over time developed a more cold, industrial-oriented sound. While the band acknowledges that they are heavily influenced by danceable club music, they never set out explicitly to create dance music, but strive to strike a combination of "strength and beauty" in their compositions. By the time ''Evolution'' was released, they created a blend of industrial and

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, with "interwoven dance floor textures and symphonic melodies". This sound culminated with ''Mechanical Horizon'', but turned sharply with ''Shockwave'', an album that was seen as something of a return to an older style. ''Combustion'' continued this tren

Decoded Feedback's music is popular within the darker electronic music scene, especially among fans of

music. Comparable artists include fellow Metropolis Records acts

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, Suicide Commando and

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, as well as

acts

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, X Marks the Pedwalk, and Evils Toy. During the 1990s the band identified with M.A.C.O.S. (Musicians Against Copywriting of Samples), a movement that asserted that the fair use of sampled portions of music and movies should be legally available for reuse in artistic works.

Discography

*''Decoded Feedback'' - (CS) 1993 - ''no label'' *''Elektroküte'' – (CS mini album) 1994 - ''no label'' *'' Overdosing'' – (CD album) 1996 - Hard Records,

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• (CD album) 2002 - Dying Culture *'' Technophoby'' – (CD album) 1997 -

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*'' Bio-Vital'' – (CD album) 1998 - Zoth Ommog • 1999 Metropolis *''

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'' – (CD) 1999 - Zoth Ommog, Metropolis – #12

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RPM Charts *'' Mechanical Horizon'' – (CD album) 2000 - Metropolis, Bloodline – #36 CMJ RPM Charts *"Reflect in Silence" – (CD maxi) 2000 - Bloodline *"Phoenix" – (CD maxi) 2002 -

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*''Shockwave'' – (CD album, enhanced) 2003 - Metropolis, Out of Line • (CD album, enhanced) 2004 - Irond *''BioMechanic'' – (2xCD) 2004 - Metropolis, Out of Line *''Combustion'' – (CD album, enhanced) 2005 - Out of Line, Metropolis • (CD album, enhanced) 2005 - Irond *''Aftermath'' – (CD album) 2010 - Metropolis, Dependent *''disKonnekt'' - (CD album) 2012 - Metropolis, Dependent *''Dark Passenger'' - (CD album) 2016 - Metropolis, Infacted Recordings

Other projects

*''Hyberia'' – 2005, soundtrack *''Red Men Rising'' – 2005, soundtrack, (Yone Dudas solo) *''Strangers at the Door'' - 2017, soundtrack The above soundtracks have not been released in any format other than in the movies themselves. ''Hyberia'' is a short 3 minute film by Francis T who directed the music videos for the Decoded Feedback songs "Phoenix" and "Hyberia" (the latter of which uses audio elements from the soundtrack). ''Red Men Rising'' is a 15 minute film about zombies, the soundtrack to which was recorded by Yone Dudas. ''Strangers at the Door'' is a feature film directed by Rogelio Salinas who also produced the band's music video for the song "Another Loss" from the album ''disKonnekt''.

References

External links

*
Decoded Feedback entry
at

' website * * {{Authority control Canadian industrial music groups Italian musical groups Electro-industrial music groups Musical groups established in 1993 1993 establishments in Canada Metropolis Records artists Zoth Ommog Records artists Dependent Records artists