www.myspace.com/keyreffd / www.soundcloud.com/killref / www.discogs.com/artist/Kill+Ref

style: Industrial Techno, Electronica

labels: Labrynth Records (Portugal) / The Centrifuge (UK) / Discontinu (Spain)

//BIOGRAPHY
Kill Ref, 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. His sound has always straightaway pointed out his natural suitability for an avantagarded style such both regarding Autechre’s And Aphex Twin’s visionary rhythmic choices, the strong heirlooms of Mills’ and Hood’s Detroit techno, the Rotterdam ravish hardtouch, the industrial echoes of the early Nitzer Ebb and Front242. Actually more regardless of any time signature, KR can inspire people both moving and travelling through an ecstatic obsessive dance: that’s the simplest and then purest meaning of the complexshaped language inside his dancefloor appeal. The everlasting love for the industrial landscapes and ruins and then the growing dark influence affecting his hybrid productions can let KR glaringly be considered as the “industrial-techno forerunner married with an electronic glitching, drilling hyperuranium”.

Other Known alias : [Kill Ref] , Kill00x , Key Refd , Kill Kill , KK , Tiltherz , Dazed Climax .

From the 2005 he founded an audio/visual ambient oriented project :”Tiltherz”, together with his friend THR.
He play as resident on the following one night events: NOTTEUPLOAD@BRANCALEONE, an innovative concept by Lighttower management in the most popular electronic club in Rome. DEGENERATION FEST, a hardtasted techno monthly event managed by Eat Beat and International Talent lewed in Naples. In Latina : TECHNOPUNKERZ at Mary Rock in the summer; Cold Valley By RSM Events in the winter.

He Played at : The Egg (London). Ginglik (London) , Maria am Ostbahnof (Berlin), Restrealitet Fest (Berlin), MaskedBall (Berlin) , Kruiskade Area (Rotterdam), Oxa (Zurich) , Misfit (Paris), La Mouche (Bordeaux) , Anti Sonar / Rotator (Barcellona), Kindergarden (Bologna), Ex Wide (Pisa) , Elettrowave (Florence) , Brancaleone (Rome), Lanificio 159 (Rome), Le Carrozzerie (Rome), Old River Park (Naples), Velvet (Naples) ,Dynamic Area (Caserta), La vecchia Fattoria (Cosenza).

He played with artists such as : Joey R Beltram, Luke Slater, Speedy J, Front 242, Pascal Feos, Ellen Alien, Lars Klein, The Advent, Dave The Drummer, Oliver Klein, Cassius, Dj Murphy, Oliver Ho, Regis, Tom Linder, Dj Seoul, Gescom, Ceephax, Rino Cerrone, Claudio Coccoluto, Joseph Capriati, MAS Collective, Phonem, Kid 606, Rotator, Funkstorung, Juno Reaktor, Lory D, D’arcangelo, Donato Dozzy.

DISCOGRAPHY ( Official and unofficial releases )
1999 _ “Horizon & Soup” , Unreleased .
2000 _ aka Dazed Climax – “Electric Doll” , White Label .
2001 _ aka Dazed Climax – “B- Motion” , White Label and Promo .
2002 _ aka K- Ref – “Der Aufstand” , Disturbanz Rec .
2002 _ aka Key Refd – “Psychoresistence” , Disturbanz Rec / Cobre .
2004 _ “Jung” , White Label .
2005 _ “Jung The Remixes Ep” , Cobre .
2006 _ aka Tilterz – “Nerbur Ep” , Unreleased ( Forthcoming Reiussue ).
2007 _ “Protection” (Promo) , Limited Press .
2008 _ aka Kill001 – “Kerv” – AG .
2009 _ “Tandem” appears on “Recompilatorio #004″, Discontinu Records .
2009 _ “Protection ” Ep , Xynthetic .
2009 _ “Till I’ll Be Protecting You” , The Centrifuge .
2009 _ “Techsinedrops” Single , RA .
2009 _ “Popopolizei” – appears on “Axis of Amity Compilation”, The Centrifuge .
2009 _ “Paramecium “Ep , Labrynth Records .
2010 _ aka Kill002 – ” Kinda Mistyc ” , Promo only .
2010 _ “Eastern Comfort” , The Centrifuge .
2010 _ “Headshell” Ep , Labrynth Records .
2010 _ “Fist” , Promo for sale .

Remixes
2007 _ Bjork – “Hyperballad” , Bootleg Promo .
2007 _ Mo_DO – “Eins , Zwei , Polizei” , Bootleg.
2008 _ Idol Lush – “Goash”,Unreleased.
2008 _ Stonerandyou – “Mash 2″ , Unrelead Promo .
2009 _ Koolmorf Widesen – “Bow94″ appears on “The Centrifuge Remixed”, The Centrifuge .
2009 _ Kill Ref – “Melanconica ClassM” remixed by Vertical67 appears on “The Centrifuge Remixed”, The Centrifuge .
2010 _ Helico Bacter & My Gloomy Machine – “Fake Intergalactic Lawyer” , The Centrifuge .
2010 _ Helico Bacter & My Gloomy Machine – “Part III” appears on “Futures Acid” , The Centrifuge.

Kill Ref @ Raise End – London 12-12-2010 by KillRef

//ITALIANO

“Kill Ref al secolo Alessandro Signore , è uno dei dj più lungimiranti della nostra penisola: dalla techno di Detroit all’electrofunk, dall’elettronica alla jungle. Ha affiancato in consolle: Joey R Beltram, Feos, Phonem, Speedy J, Kid606, Rotator, Lory D.
Un dj che nella musica elettonica contemporanea ha saputo trovare il giusto equilibrio tra le sonorità dancefloor massive e le prospettive elitarie dell’avanguardia, unendole in un nuovo percorso. Kill Ref all’impatto sulla pista fonde il senso dell’innovazione”

da “Errecomeroma” 12/06/2009

Recensione / Review On : Notte Upload @ Brancaleone , Roma 13 /06/2009

“Kill Ref , Sound Consultant del progetto Upload al Brancaleone in Roma , è un dj che alla
musica elettronica contemporanea ha saputo dare un reale contributo innovativo : la sua originale e accattivante abilità nel montaggio delle più disparate suggestioni visive del suono sintetico ha saputo renderlo protagonista di una consolle prestigiosa come quella del Branca di questo sabato e al contempo degna alternativa allo egemon magnetismo del set targato Cassius .Kill Ref ha saputo fondere al forte impatto sulla pista un lungimirante senso dell’innovazione”.

da “Comunicato Stampa Notte Upload & Roma Europa Festival ” 23/11/2009

Recensione / Review on : Notte Upload & Roma Europa Festival (special guests : Cassius ) @ Brancaleone , Roma 21/11/2009