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Bologna, IT
EDM, Electro, Punk

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Border. ‘s new EP Never Too Late was released Oct.16th 2022 by Elastico Records, recorded and mixed by Gianluca Lo Presti at Loto Studio in Ravenna.

Border. have been under international focus since summer ’20, when they unleashed the radical song Double Rainbow and its blasphemous video, juxtaposing images of the Pope with Pride Parades.

With Too Late Erika Spada and Demi More keep following their passion for edgy electro, in spite of the ones saying it’s “for young ones”.

Angry guitars and repetitive beats wash away the paranoid prejudices about not being allowed anymore to do something we love because of older age.

Compared to Border. ‘s first EP We Don’t Exist, Never Too Late is maybe darker, featuring even a love song, but in the electroclash’s style.
The 5 tracks include also a crazy Covid-dance, turning into groovy rhythms the madness we’ve been living through, a statement about the importance of consent in sexual relationships, plus a totally revisited cover of The Cramps’s Human Fly.

Border. – A short bio

Border., it’s written just like that, with the final dot indicating that there are no borders, in geography as in art.
Border. has an extreme sound, without compromise, obsessive rhythms that summarize the last forty years of punk and industrial, a perfect synthesis between Siouxsie, The Prodigy, The Cramps, Atari Teenage Riot.
The duo was born from the meeting between Demi More and Erika Spada in 2017 in the cult place of Bologna’s counterculture, via del Pratello; they found out they were both passionate about electronic music, post punk, garage rock and both have had many experiences in the field of music, theater and performance arts.
Demi was invited in 2012 to perform at the German Lollapalooza, and Erika had several collaborations as a playwrighter and actress – as Peraspera Festival. Demi was looking for a voice to complete his musical delirium and so the deal was done.
In September 2020 they released the WE DON’T EXIST – EP, recorded with the skilful production of Gianluca Lo Presti in the Loto Studio in the province of Ravenna.
The EP encloses the single Double Rainbow, which caused quite a storm getting airplay and coverage all over the globe, from The States to France, from the Uk to New Zealand. The track was a radical manifesto in support of civil rights, paired by a video juxtaposing images of Trump, The Pope, Pride Parades and tribal dances, defined by Ice No Fruits blog “a technicolour maelstrom”.

After two years of pandemic, Border. now return with a new single, which is not by chance called NO VAX (What’s Inside?) and is again produced by Lo Presti. The release is scheduled for April 29, 2022.

Biografia
Border., si scrive proprio così, con il punto finale ad indicare che non esistono confini, in geografia come nell’arte.
I Border. hanno un sound estremo, senza compromessi, ritmi ossessivi che riassumono gli ultimi quarant’anni di punk e industrial, una perfetta sintesi tra Siouxsie, The Prodigy, The Cramps, Atari Teenage Riot.
Il duo nasce dall’incontro tra Demi More ed Erika Spada nel 2017 nel luogo da sempre chiave della controcultura bolognese, Via del Pratello. Entrambi sono appassionati di musica elettronica, post punk, garage rock ed entrambi hanno alle spalle numerose esperienze nel campo della musica, del teatro e delle performance arts. Demi è stato invitato nel 2012 a esibirsi al Lollapalooza tedesco, ed Erika è reduce da diverse collaborazioni come drammaturga e attrice, fra cui il Peraspera Festival. Demi cerca una voce per completare il suo delirio musicale ed ecco che il gioco è fatto.
A Settembre 2020 la prima uscita discografica: WE DON’T EXIST – EP, realizzato sotto l’abile produzione di Gianluca Lo Presti nel Loto Studio in provincia di Ravenna. L’EP include il singolo Double Rainbow, un manifesto radicale in favore dei diritti civili a colpi di synth e beats, supportato da un video – definito dal blog US Ice No Fruits “a technicolour maelstrom”– che mischia Trump, il Papa, Pride Parade e danze tribali.
A Novembre 2021 il duo si esibisce durate la Milan Music Week, selezionati per gli showcase di Linecheck.
I Border. tornano ora con un nuovo singolo, che non a caso si chiama NO VAX (What’s Inside?) ed è sempre prodotto da Lo Presti, disponibile dal 29 Aprile 2022 sul loro Bandcamp, You Tube, e a breve anche su tutti i digital stores.

MEDIA LINKS
Radio Elettrica
Rock Shock
Il suono acido, il glitgh touch, la ritmica sferzante, la cassa in quattro quarti, le aperture epocali, i testi impegnati e la voce storta e dissonante di Erika restituiscono un prodotto teoretico ed anticonvenzionale, un vero e proprio antidoto alle regole del mainstream.
Paranoid Park
“Never Too Late”, il nuovo EP dei BOrder. è crudo, ma assolutamente veritiero; è arrabbiato e viscerale
RockIt
Never Too Late è un lavoro coraggioso, che esprime l’assoluta indifferenza del duo nei confronti di una composizione accondiscendente.
RadioCoop
Sélection Sorties (FR)
Terra Relicta (SLO)
Switch On (IT)
Paranoid Park (IT)
El Santo del Rock (MEX)
We Don’t Exist (Sept. 2020)
Danger of Music (IT)
Terra Relicta (SLO)
Threshold Magazine (PT)
Exhimusic – Double Rainbow (IT)
Exhimusic – EP (IT)
Exitwell (IT)
Underground Music (IT)
Graffiti Vibe – Double Rainbow (UK)
Graffiti Vibe – EP (UK)
Ice No Fruit (USA)
Backseat Mafia (UK)
The Blackout Radio Show (GR/USA/CAN/UK/CYP)
The Alternatives Frequencies Rock Show / Radio Leyland – July 06th (UK)
– Aug 12th
– Sept 30th
The End of the Week Show – Sheppey FM (UK)
Skope Mag (USA)
Rockit.it (IT)
Offtopic Magazine (IT)
Paranoid Park (IT)
Le Rane (IT)
Mondo Raro (IT)
El Santo del Rock (MEX)
Loudd (IT)
Visioni Sonore (IT)

829 Media (GR)

BORDER.
Bologna, IT
Techno, Punk, Garage Rock, Industrial

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Released April 29th, 2022, NO VAX (What’s Inside?) is the brand new single by Border., following their notorious debut EP We Don’t Exist (September 2020), which featured the radical LGBT dance anthem Double Rainbow.
NO VAX is a powerful techno-punk ritual, aiming to exorcise in an ironic way the nightmares of the pandemic’s everyday life.
A super-acid sound booms overwhelmingly, in a game of synths and “glitch” filters, all over Erika’s voice reciting as a kind of litany the list of Covid’s vaccines, variants, masks, Green Pass, etc. You can feel the not-so-subtle sarcasm about No Vax people, their conspiracy’s theories and their surreal skepticism against science.
In the very end, we just have to dance while we can, as much as we can.

The video was created by Veronica Fausti combining graphic video editing programs, such as Adobe After Effects and Premiere Pro, with Procreate digital drawing software. The beats of the music enhance the acid rave style of the video, with distorted effects and RGB Glitch. The drawings are inspired by the No Vax propaganda, questioning the efficacy, purpose and composition of vaccines. It’s a stroboscopic journey, as if vaccines were comparable to drugs and their hallucinogenic effects.
The “mouth” is the predominant element, because this issue has been and is “on everyone’s lips”.

Border. – A short bio