Zona Industriale

Zona Industriale was a post-industrial music and power electronics duo from Cosenza formed in 1983 by Michele Pingitore and Pino Iannelli. That year they released their first album entitled 'IZ'. The album, which involved a compositional reassembly of sounds recorded from life, was comprised of radio speeches interspersed with radio frequencies, recordings taken from everyday life such as hairdryers, train stations and crackling doors and wood, as well as samples taken from special effects discs, translating into music the sounds of routine and boredom of everyday life, and totally excluding the usual musical instruments. In 1985 they published 'Neutral' for ADN. In 1986 they released 'Away' for the Dutch BloedvlagProdukt which can be considered their last cassette. The sound of the group was initially very industrial and noisy; from 'Sequences' onwards it became more evanescent and dilated, towards rarefied sounds with ambient implications providing more and more tempered scale instruments. [SOURCE: WIKIPED IA]