DJ Balli

DJ BALLI

DJ BALLI in 2005
Background information
Birth name Riccardo Balli
Labels Sonic Belligeranza

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 musician in the "S.E.B." plunderphonics collective, at the beginning of the '90s Dj Balli lost interest for music to get in involved in movements like the Association of Autonomous Astronauts as documented on Vice magazine.[1] 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. The Wire magazine has described his sound "noise-poisoned breaks using a combination of turntablism, sonic manipulation and vinyl infringement”,[2] whereas on Dancecult Journal of Electronic Dance Music he's defined "an absolute insider of the international underground electronic music scene for 20 years or so...Neither a music critic nor a music historian. Rather, a DJ, label owner, composer, novelist, live performer and, above all, a relentless experimenter in every domain of cultural production".[3] Good example of this global experimental attitude are dj Balli´s "Sonic Fictions" that consists in a sort of "literary remix",in between djing and writing. This is a technique typical of the author, also described as "a plundering of counter-narrative strategies" and " ingeniously amusing counter-histories of interconnected music genres in a fictional plundering of writings of Philip K. Dick and Fulcanelli.[4] Others dj Balli's "literary remix" were focussed on Chris Cutler's "Plundeprhonia" essay [5] and on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein in his latest book in Italian "Frankenstein Goes To Holocaust",[6] due to be out in English within 2016 for Thisco publisher.[7]

In addition to his various records on his label Sonic Belligeranza, dj Balli has released for labels worldwide: mostly European like Toolbox records,[8] but also from China (Shanshui records and Deaf Dumb Blind School records [9]), Japan (Rdc records [10]), Australia ( Goulburn Poultry Fanciers Society [11]) and USA (Diskore Mix [12]).

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, In Skatebored We Noize and Rancid Opera!

Riccardo Balli is also active as a music writer both in Italian for different pubblishers and in English for the magazine of noise and politics Datacide [13] and Dancecult ”.[14]

Discography

Solo Projects

Compilation

References

  1. ↑ Daniel Oberhaus (2015). "Smash the Hotels! Squat the Moon!". Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  2. ↑ The Wire Magazine (2011). "The Wire Tapper". Retrieved 24 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Andrea MuBi Brighenti (2014). "Apocalypso Disco". Retrieved 27 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Nemeton (2013). "Cyrus Bozorgmehr, The Rabbit Hole (Creative Space, 2013) and other writings". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  5. ↑ Chris Cutler (1994). "Plunderphonia". Retrieved 29 April 2016.
  6. ↑ dj Balli (2016). "Frankenstein Goes To Holocaust". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Antibothis (2012). "We Have The Technology". Retrieved 25 April 2016.
  8. ↑ Dj Balli (2013). "Dj Balli". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  9. ↑ Dj Balli (2006). "What's The Morden Revolution Model". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  10. ↑ Dj Balli (2010). "R2". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Dj Balli (2008). "M.O.S.vol.2". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  12. ↑ Diskore (2006). "April Fools Day". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  13. ↑ Datacide (2016). "Datacide magazine for noise and politics". Retrieved 26 April 2016.
  14. ↑ Dancecult (2015). "Dancecult journal of electronic dance music culture". Retrieved 24 April 2016.

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