MRT is an experimental endeavor by miKKa (founder of dreDDup), and began in 2007, focusing on dreams, noises, and otherworldly themes. The project is known for its atmospheric, wild, and experimental soundscapes, having produced 10 albums and 3 extended play albums. MRT also composes music for films and theater.

The prolific Serbian industrial project has just released its eleventh album, titled “Kerrang”. The album, which began production during the 2020 pandemic, showcases 13 new tracks. Part of the album’s composition was specifically created for the documentary “Novi Sad Remembrance”, directed by Aleksandar Reljić, which focuses on the historical raid on Novi Sad.

The Novi Sad Raid was a horrific event that took place during World War II in January 1942. Hungarian forces, who were occupying parts of Yugoslavia at the time, conducted a systematic massacre in the city of Novi Sad. Over the course of several days, thousands of civilians, primarily Serbs, Jews, and Romani people, were rounded up and executed along the Danube River.

The rest of the album continue the sonic themes MRT explored in their previous album, “Urwell”. Recorded entirely at DURU studio in Novi Sad, the band plans to promote the album soon, including a cassette release. MRT has had limited live performances this year but is gearing up to promote “Kerrang” with live shows.

You can listen to and purchase the album through the MRT Bandcamp page.

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The Serbian industrial act dreDDup from Novi Sad has completed their eleventh studio album, “Pan/Dora”, available in pre-order, marking the beginning of an ambitious trilogy. The other two albums, currently in development, will each explore distinct stylistic territories.

“Pan/Dora” features 13 brand-new tracks, the result of nearly four years of work. The pandemic delayed its completion by a year, but the early versions of “Clark Can’t” and “Cherry Noble” have already made their debut as AI-generated videos on dreDDup’s YouTube channel. The album was recorded and produced, as always, at DURU Studio in Novi Sad under the guidance of Mihajlo Obrenov.

This release also marks a change in the band’s lineup since longtime drummer Bora is absent from the album. He left the group this year after his final performance at the Nišville festival in mid-August.

Set to drop on all streaming platforms on September 7th, the band will give fans an exclusive preview on their Bandcamp page on Thursday, September 5, 2024, at 7:00 PM CEST. This listening party offers an opportunity to experience the full album ahead of its official release and interact with the band members in real-time.

In November, dreDDup will embark on a brief tour in Slovenia, focusing exclusively on tracks from their first four albums.

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Previously, we reported that the Serbian industrial band dreDDup initiated a project in 2022 to produce music videos for their older tracks, marking their 25th anniversary. They created a total of 10 videos, dedicating one to a song from each of their ten albums.

In their 27th year, dreDDup will continue this initiative by producing additional videos for their earlier songs. The latest video, made for the 2006 track “Not From Here”, a song frequently featured in their live performances, marks the beginning of this new series.

The video incorporates vintage analog photographs from dreDDup concerts around the time the song was originally released and promoted, a period characterized by the prevalent use of film photography. With the band not having extensively documented their concerts through video at the time, they utilized artificial intelligence to animate these still images, creating a dynamic video narrative.

The footage for this new video includes previously unreleased photographs from the band’s archives, alongside recent live video clips and AI-generated imagery. The song “Not From Here” has been remastered to meet contemporary production standards. Mihajlo Obrenov directed the video, continuing his role in the band’s visual presentations.

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The Serbian industrial rock band dreDDup has been working hard lately on it’s video productions. “Cherry Noble” is the second single from the upcoming eleventh studio album “Pan/Dora” scheduled for a release in mid 2024 via Crime:Scene Records.

The video for the single was directed by Mihajlo Obrenov with the help of AI. It represents a critique of today’s society. In less than a month, dreDDup will enter it’s 27th year of existence and besides “Pan/Dora” they’ve been working on two more albums simultaneously.

You can see the video for “Cherry Noble” here.

Below are stills from the new video.

About dreDDup

dreDDup is based in Novi Sad, Serbia and has been active since June 1997. Their first release, “Abnormal Walz”, featured a sound ranging from experimental electronics and techno to electro punk. It was followed by their first full-length album, “Mr Borndead’s Feast” which was released in 2004. In August 2007 the band landed the album “Future Porn Machine” offering a crossover sound. From that moment on, dreDDup labeled their music as being ‘massacre industrial’. The third album, “El Conquistadors”, came out late in 2008, the 4th was released in February 2011 simply titled “dreDDup” again offering a crossover of multiple electronic genres. Their fifth album was released in 2012 celebrating their 15th anniversary.

In late 2013 the band started working on their new record entitled “I dreamt of a Dragon” which was released at the end of 2014. For this album they abandoned their aggressive style of music and went for a more electronic and commercial sound. The album was self-released and the track “Etika” which was available on the free “Face The Beat: Session 2” compilation featured the legendary Dario Seraval from the Croatian/Slovenian cult industrial band Borghesia on vocals. It was one of 3 songs that the industrial outfit dreDDup sent us for inclusion on the compilation.

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As the first single from their new album “Pan/Dora”, the industrial rockers from Serbia, dreDDup, present the song “Clark Can’t”. This song will be one of the 10 completely new songs recorded in parallel for the album.

The video for “Clark Can’t” was created by director Mihajlo Obrenov with the help of various AI technology tools.

Mihajlo describes his technique as follows: “This is an AI video, and it’s the first time I’ve worked with this technology. It wasn’t easy at all, even though most people think it’s just a few clicks and it’s done. It took me three months of daily work and a lot of nerves. While most creators rushed to announce and create AI videos that, in my opinion, look slightly better than an animated GIF and clumsy stop motion, I patiently and carefully studied the technology, found companies that offer various tools, read and watched everything on the subject, and impatiently waited for the AI to advance to the point where I could personally convey my idea to it and it could actually understand it. I waited for the level where it could really look as it should and the video wasn’t pixelated and in a poor frame rate. Only recently have camera movements, lighting, plans, angles, working with ‘actors’, and everything I was educated for and can professionally explain come into play.”

The band also announced that there will soon be more new singles and videos, and there are plans to shoot a few more videos for some of their older songs.

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Serbian industrial rock/electronic project dreDDup have released a new video “Roots of Them” to end this year, their 25th Anniversary celebration, in style.

The music video is mostly edited from video material shot in the period spanning the years 1998 to 2012, 70% of which was never before released to the public, with some new video footage as well. The whole was directed by a film director Mihajlo Obrenov.

This year the band has been shooting 10 music videos for some old songs that didn’t have a visual presentation yet but which are present in their live sets all the time.

“Roots of Them” was originally released in 1998 when the dreDDup members were just 16 years old. on the self-titled cassette. It was re-released later in 2019. by Librarion Records on a compilation which featured only 90s dreDDup tracks. Around that period the band was mostly influenced by Prodigy, Chemical Brothers and Praga Khan.

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Serbian industrial rock band dreDDup has a new music video out for the track “Margot’s Not Dead” from their latest “Romance of Romans” studio album. Although the band changed its sound through decades of work, their latest album brings back the old industrial electronics to life.

This year dreDDup celebrates its 25 years of active playing so the plan is to shoot 10 music videos for some old songs, as we reported earlier, and they are planing to shoot 7 more videos until the end of this year. The new video was directed by film director Mihajlo Obrenov, and was shot in their home town of Novi Sad and in Bratislava (Slovakia).

Here’s the video.

You can check out the full “Romance of Romans” album below.

About dreDDup

dreDDup is based in Novi Sad, Serbia and has been active since June 1997. Their first release, “Abnormal Walz”, featured a sound ranging from experimental electronics and techno to electro punk. It was followed by their first full-length album, “Mr Borndead’s Feast” which was released in 2004. In August 2007 the band landed the album “Future Porn Machine” offering a crossover sound. From that moment on, dreDDup labeled their music as being ‘massacre industrial’. The third album, “El Conquistadors”, came out late in 2008, the 4th was released in February 2011 simply titled “dreDDup” again offering a crossover of multiple electronic genres. Their fifth album was released in 2012 celebrating their 15th anniversary.

In late 2013 the band started working on their new record entitled “I dreamt of a Dragon” which was released at the end of 2014. For this album they abandoned their aggressive style of music and went for a more electronic and commercial sound. The album was self-released and the track “Etika” which was available on the free “Face The Beat: Session 2” compilation featured the legendary Dario Seraval from the Croatian/Slovenian cult industrial band Borghesia on vocals. It was one of 3 songs that the industrial outfit dreDDup sent us for inclusion on the compilation.

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Serbian industrial act dreDDup have been busy this year shooting a lot of music videos for their 25 anniversary celebration year. Their main idea was to celebrate their bands birthday at the end of the year by shooting 10 music videos for old songs during the year.

Out now are 2 brand new videos. The first, the 4th, is for the song “Mr.Fooz” from their 4th album “dreDDup” from 2011. The music video is done in the stop motion technique, using a lot of legos and the whole production lasted for more than a month while 7600 separate frames were animated photo by photo. The music video was directed by Mihajlo Obrenov. Next is “Lust Supper”, from their 7th album “DeathOven (Rebels Have No Kings)” from 2016. Also this music video was directed by Mihajlo Obrenov.

Here are a number of stills from the two videos.

Check out the videos for “Mr. Fooz” and “Lust Supper”.

dreDDup is based in Novi Sad, Serbia and has been active since June 1997. Their first release, “Abnormal Walz”, featured a sound ranging from experimental electronics and techno to electro punk. It was followed by their first full-length album, “Mr Borndead’s Feast” which was released in 2004. In August 2007 the band landed the album “Future Porn Machine” offering a crossover sound. From that moment on, dreDDup labeled their music as being ‘massacre industrial’. The third album, “El Conquistadors”, came out late in 2008, the 4th was released in February 2011 simply titled “dreDDup” again offering a crossover of multiple electronic genres. Their fifth album was released in 2012 celebrating their 15th anniversary.

In late 2013 the band started working on their new record entitled “I dreamt of a Dragon” which was released at the end of 2014. For this album they abandoned their aggressive style of music and went for a more electronic and commercial sound. The album was self-released and the track “Etika” which was available on the free “Face The Beat: Session 2” compilation featured the legendary Dario Seraval from the Croatian/Slovenian cult industrial band Borghesia on vocals. It was one of 3 songs that the industrial outfit dreDDup sent us for inclusion on the compilation.

You can get the full “dreDDup” album from 2011 followed by a free download of “DeathOven (Rebels Have No Kings)” from 2016 right below.

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The Serbian industrial act dreDDup has a new music video out for the song “We Sperm Noise”. The song is actually from their 2014 album “I Dreamt of a Dragon” and talks about sexual relationship between a girl and her favorite noise music.

The Novi Sad based act dreDDup is now officially 25 years old and their anniversary includes making 10 videos for older songs (one from each album).

This is the second music video done for their anniversary celebration. The “We Sperm Noise” video was made by film director Mihajlo Obrenov.

Here’s the complete album.

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(By Eldrina Mich) The download 52-track compilation “Face The Beat: Session 2” (you can download it here) powered by Side-Line is doing very well. Since the free download was launched a few weeks ago, the compilation reached the number 1 spot on Bandcamp after a few days being the most downloaded release on the platform, it reached over 10.000 downloads as we speak and has created quite an online buzz. Compiler of the massive 52-track compilation is Bernard Van Isacker, chief editor of Side-Line. It wasn’t the first time he did this, in 2011 the first volume of “Face The Beat” attracted a whopping 24.000 downloads and got praises from allover the world. We decided to interview him for once.

SL: The compilation is quite unique in this scene. Where did the idea originate from?

Bernard: There are many compilations around, but hardly any of those focus on new (unsigned) bands from all kind of genres within the dark wave scene. The reason is that it is commercially speaking not interesting enough. Which is understandable. However, at Side-Line we have always wanted to support young bands, whether via news items or reviews and a download compilation was the only other way to promote these newcomers even further. So 4 years ago I started with the first volume which was primarily promoted via Facebook, hence the name “Face The Beat”. But anno 2015 “Face The Beat” is synonym for giving newbies a platform to showcase their work. Anyhow, Side-Line is a breeding ground for new talents since the early beginning although some people might not always realise this as we work a lot behind the scenes to push bands. Our chief reviewer Stephane Froidcoeur for instance is one of the most important headhunters for the “Endzeit Bunkertracks” series and I have been helping out a lot of starting bands to find a decent home for their releases plus I run the Official Side-Line Playlist on Spotify which has a lot of traction, probably because of the not so ‘mainstream’ track selection :).

SL: The first volume had quite an impact back in 2001!

Bernard: With over 24.000 downloads, that first volume was really a bomb unleashed on the internet and the scene. Several bands present on that compilation got a bigger recognition such as Electro Spectre who is now an established and recognised electro pop act. I’m kinda proud to have been one of the early boosters behind their career and I have been following what they have been up to ever since.

SL: Will you again reach the 24.000 milestone?

Bernard: It’s not really my target to be honest, but the new volume is doing pretty well so who knows. But most of all I’m very glad that it will enable us to finance our charity projects.

SL: I was surprised to learn that Side-Line has been supporting charity since it’s early start?

Bernard: That’s maybe for many a surprise because I have never communicated a lot about it. The charities Side-Line has funded since 1999 include Plan International (a great organisation doing outstanding work), mobile kitchens in Athens (Greece) for the poor and homeless people, social education programs for disabled people, and so on. Both Stephane and I have our daytime jobs and we have never been paid whatsoever to run Side-Line and are not interested in being paid anyhow. Side-Line is a fun project and if it generates cash, then we prefer giving it to people who need it. I have been too many times to countries where people live in poverty; it made me realise many of us, if not most, should be happy with the luxurious lives we have even when our neighbour maybe earns tenfold :). We have flat screens, a car, iPhones, Macs, Samsung Galaxies, and a roof above or head. Reason enough to give karma back to those who need it.

SL: The amount of submissions was enormous, over 5000 tracks. How on earth did you manage to listen to all these songs?

Bernard: Let’s say that it looked like seeking a needle in a haystack at first, in this case I needed to find 52 needles ;), fortunately I found a lot of those, 257 in total. I started with listening to around 50 tracks per day and that for a couple of weeks. After that I had 257 tracks which could have fit on the compilation – quite a nice catch I must say. But 250 would have been a bit too much, sure thing was that I needed to trim it down to around 50 tracks. So I replayed everything and chose those tracks that I thought delivered something extra or had potential. In the end I had selected 57 tracks, but 3 bands and 1 label never got back to me with a final unmastered version or a signed contract. A pity because there was one band in there which had lots of potential, in the style of let’s say the next Mesh. Perhaps they will change their mind the next time :). There was also a joined track by Junksista and Helalyn Flowers – a brilliant one – which originally had been recorded especially for “Face The Beat: Session 2”, but Alfa Matrix decided to release it themselves on a future Alfa Matrix compilation instead because it was so good.

SL: How did you get hold of the the dreDDup track “Etika” featuring Borghesia’s Dario Seraval?

Bernard: It was dreDDup who contacted me asking if I was interested. Since that track never has been released on an album before (the band’s latest record never had a label release), it was a God’s gift to put it mildly. The same happened when John Fryer, the legendary producer of NIN, Depeche Mode etc., told me during a diner at his place (Johny makes a delicious veggie lasagna) that he wanted to contribute a track to the compilation in order to help out. So that’s how the instrumental track “Mourningmorning 1c” ended up on “Face The Beat: Session 2”. Other early supporters included #366 A Life Lived, Bella Lune, Desireless & Operation Of The Sun Vs. Voice Of Ruin, Celluloide (via Boredomproduct who always have been big supporters of whatever we do), NoyceTM and so on.

SL: How did Erlend Eilertsen from the Norwegian band Essence Of Mind come into the picture to do the mastering?

Bernard: I wanted to master this second release. Since the bands do the effort to create a track, it’s only logical they should be offered a quality environment for it to be released. Hence why this time we also went for HQ downloads via Bandcamp. To get back to your initial question, I have known Erlend for years now, and although I also have a professional relation with him via Alfa Matrix, he has also become a good, very reliable, friend whom I always meet up with when I’m in Norway. It was written in the stars that we would work on something together for Side-Line one day and since he has been quietly mastering a lot of his own material, I thought the time was ready to give him a whole compilation to work on too. Which let it be clear is not an easy task, many other mastering professionals can testify this. On top this was a particularly difficult job for Erlend because not all the material we received was recorded in the best circumstances; some material we got was also over-edited, over-mixed, etc.. He did a great job though!

SL: So it’s not only a platform for starting bands but also a way for technicians to show what they can do mastering wise?

Bernard: Exactly. And for the next compilation I’ve already got another name in mind that I want to present. Again from Norway, let the guessing game start right now :)!

SL: What tracks have surprised you the most?

Bernard: In terms of ideas, I was particularly struck by what Nesim Celik did on “Atom Çağı”. This Turkish act mixes electronics with sufi-style instruments, all self played by the way! I hope to hear more from this act because this is an idea I have had for a few years: mixing electronics and sufi in an intelligent way. The same goes for 3jean’s “Nfn9” (2015 Edit), that track has quite some potential. It’s maybe not the most produced one, but the idea is there and that is why it is on this compilation. But on the whole every band present on the compilation offered something which I found interesting, hence their inclusion.

SL: What are the next plans?

Bernard: Stephane and I have been brainstorming quite a bit the past few months, especially after the site went down for 2 weeks – which honestly was a very stressful period, and we are still recovering from it. We are convinced that now, more than ever before, we can be a platform for labels and bands to showcase their work to a large select public. Whereas the other magazines focus on bigger bands, we have decided to nurture new talents and ideas. As a result the “Face The Beat” series will keep on focusing on new talents. But you may also expect a few more initiatives through which we will be pushing scene labels and their bands. There are also a few compilation ideas we have been thinking about that we would like to develop and now that the site is back operational we have time to do that. All these releases will be available for free with all donations going to charity and to keep the site servers up and running.

SL: Speaking of which, the site has been down for 2 weeks, I’m probably not the only one wondering what happened?

Bernard: You’re probably number 101 asking this. Basically we ran out of borrowed time on the old server. We knew we had to change servers, change CMS but as I pointed out, we all have very demanding daytime jobs and we really needed time to make the transfer. I guess that the server issues decided that the time was there, ha! I thought about killing Side-Line altogether, because you can’t imagine how frustrating it is to see the work of 16 years evaporate. Luckily our dear friend War-n (Hungry Lucy, …) has been spending all of his spare time (and he has very little believe me), to restore the old db in the current CMS. It’s currently running in a test environment. Once it’s debugged we’ll be switching it to the live site. After that we are going to match the old URLs in order to keep the external links to the site valid. Anyhow, during the downtime I worked on a couple of other sites I run.

SL: You run a lot of other sites?

Bernard: My daytime job involves about 20 other websites which I run in order to keep the daily bread arriving on my table. But those are all very business related and I doubt the Side-Line readers would be interested in that.

SL: There’s also the Bob De Moor website you run no?

Bernard: You’ve really been googling me I have the impression… I am an admirer of Bob De Moor (editor’s note: the right hand of Hergé, the famous father of Tintin & Snowy), since I was 8 years old actually and a few years ago I launched the Official Bob De Moor website. Unlike many of my ‘heroes’ he’s among the few which I’m sure I would have gotten along with pretty well. Unfortunately I was never able to meet him in person, but through his work and family I have gotten to learn a lot about him. Right now I’m digitising the De Moor family’s archives plus I’m traveling through Europe to look for previously unpublished material, originals etc. via all kinds of private collections. As a result I have even found some previously unpublished Tintin drawings Bob De Moor had made and which were never detailed in books before, let alone talked about. I also was able to ‘unmask’ a Tintin drawing sold for over 45.000 Euros as being a not so real Hergé item… much to the unhappiness of the buyer I must say :). And there is even a musical touch. De Moor was a huge jazz and blues fan, and since that is also a passion of me – you should now understand why Depeche Mode’s “Ultra” still is a very acceptable album to me – I have been diving into his private collection in order to verify musical references in his work. And there’s also a Side-Line link, because when I invited Side-Line readers to check out the website I noticed many familiar faces popping up on the site and it’s Facebook page. So as you can see, the world is such a small place :).

You can download “Face The Beat: Session 2” right here from Bandcamp.

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As Eldrina Mich I work as a go-between and a devil’s advocate when it comes to Side-Line. If our own staff needs to be interviewed then ask the questions no one else dares to ask.

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If you have already downloaded the free “Face The Beat: Session 2” compilation, you will have noticed that track 17 called “Etika” by the Serbian industrial rock band dreDDup is featuring the legendary Dario Seraval from the Croatian/Slovenian cult industrial band Borghesia on vocals. It was one of 3 songs that the industrial outfit dreDDup sent us for inclusion on the compilation.

“Face The Beat: Session 2” features lots of new talents, and a few familiar ‘faces’ from the electro, wave, industrial scene including John Fryer, Acylum, NoyceTM, Desireles, Dario Seraval (Borghesia) and so on. The purpose is/was not to offer you material from the most popular acts, but mostly to let you discover newer bands which caught our attention and which often haven’t got a label contract or have just been recently signed etc.. The free compilation, counting 52 tracks, is available now via Bandcamp. It’s a free compilation, however if you want to support some of Side-Line’s charities (Plan International being one), feel free to donate too, all proceeds will go to financing these projects.

Here’s “Etika” by dreDDup featuring Dario Seraval:

dreDDup is based in Novi Sad, Serbia and has been active since June 1997. Their first release, “Abnormal Walz”, featured a sound ranging from experimental electronics and techno to electro punk. It was followed by their first full-length album, “Mr Borndead’s Feast” which was released in 2004. In August 2007 the band landed the album “Future Porn Machine” offering a crossover sound. From that moment on, dreDDup labeled their music as being ‘massacre industrial’. The third album, “El Conquistadors”, came out late in 2008, the 4th was released in February 2011 simply titled “dreDDup” again offering a crossover of multiple electronic genres. Their fifth album was released in 2012 celebrating their 15th anniversary. In late 2013 the band started working on their new record entitled “I dreamt of a Dragon” which was released at the end of 2014. For this album they abandoned their aggressive style of music and went for a more electronic and commercial sound. The album was self-released. The track “Etika” is taken from this album.

They also released a video from this sixth album, which you can see below.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil.

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