Kill Ref

Kill Ref
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Born as Alessandro Signore,started his own musical path in the early 1994 DJing at several small independent techno parties located between Rome and Naples. Straightaway here he honed out his affinity for the avantagarde electronic sounds of Autechre’s And Aphex Twin’s visionary approach to music and the strong rhythms of Atkins’, Mills’ and Hood’s Detroit techno. His landing in the italian capital’s raves and then his love for remixing and mashing up tracks while DJing inspired him to composing his own music. The first fruits came after 2000, as Dazed Climaz ; K-Ref:d ; Kill01 ; they all made experimental electro tunes and some of them (Der Aufstand,2001 ;PsychoResistance,2002) were released on Disturbanz (S) and Cobre Records (P) (now defunct).

At the same time he experimented with samplers and drummachines and got involved into a meaningful career at non-legal consolles. He performed with prominent artists such as Joey R Beltram, Feos, Speedy J, Phonem, Kid 606, Funkstorung, Juno Reaktor, Lory D. In the mid-2005 he founded togheter with his friendmate Antonello Belgrano THR , a new techglitch-click and cuts project called Untilthz and then changed now into Tiltherz releasing Nerbur Ep.

He has played numerous performances in Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, Finland, France, Portugal, Turkey, Denmark. In this 2009 he also released the single “Tandem” for Discontinu Records’ (Esp) anniversary compilaton DIS004 06/09. On July two EPs are going to be released: “Till I’ll Be Protecting You “, that will be on The Centrifuge – UK , an eminent netlabel many meaningful electronic artits has released on it (Missaw, Richard Devine, Puzzleweasel, Chevron, Neutek, The Gasman, Gareth Clarke);and “Protection EP” that will be released on Xynthetic, a Canadian netlabel. At moment his live and DJ sets encompass techno and electro to gabber and hard jungle.