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{{Short description|Canadian musical project}}
{{Infobox musical artist
| name            = Decoded Feedback
| image           = Decoded Feedback Nocturnal Culture Night 10 2015 04.jpg
| caption         = Decoded Feedback at the Nocturnal Culture Night festival in Germany, 2015.
| image_size      = 250px
| alias           =
| origin          = [[Canada]]
| genre           = [[Electronic body music|EBM]] <br>[[Aggrotech]]<br>[[Futurepop]] <br>[[Dark electro]]<br>[[Electro-industrial]]
| years_active    = 1993&ndash;2021
| label           = {{ hlist | [[Zoth Ommog Records|Zoth Ommog]] | [[Metropolis Records|Metropolis]] | Bloodline | [[List of industrial music labels|Hard Records]] | Dying Culture | [[Out of Line Music|Out Of Line]] | [[Dependent Records|Dependent]] | Infacted Recordings }}
| website         =
| current_members = Yone Dudas <br>Marco Biagiotti
| past_members    = 
}}
'''Decoded Feedback''' is a [[Canadians|Canadian]] [[band (music)|musical project]] which incorporates [[music genre|styles]] of [[electro-industrial]] and [[aggrotech]]. The duo releases music on the North American distributor [[Metropolis Records]], and the European [[record label]] Infacted Recordings.

==History==
Decoded Feedback was formed in 1993 by the Italian Marco Biagiotti (vocals, lyrics, samples, sequences, arrangement, basses and drums) and the Hungarian Yone Dudas (keyboards, sequences, arrangement, samples, basses, drums and lyrics) while they were both living in Italy.<ref name="sonicboom_1998">{{cite web |last1=Christian |first1=Chris |title=Interview with Yone of Decoded Feedback |url=https://sonic-boom.com/interview/decoded.feedback.interview.html |website=Sonic Boom |accessdate=8 August 2020 |date=12 March 1998}}</ref> The duo met in an industrial night club in Budapest, Hungary<ref name="vecchio-2014">{{cite thesis |last1=Vecchio |first1=Ruth |title=Thesis: Exploring the Evolution of Industrial Music: A Historical and Analytical Perspective |date=May 2014 |pages=91–95 |url=https://digital.library.txstate.edu/handle/10877/4987 |accessdate=6 September 2020 |publisher=Texas State University |format=PDF |degree=Masters |language=English}}</ref> and developed a friendship through EBM and industrial music that led to a collaboration for producing original music.<ref name="starvox-2001">{{cite web |author1=BlackOrpheus |title=Interview with Decoded Feedback |url=https://www.starvox.net/crypt/2feb2.htm |website=Starvox Music Zine |accessdate=5 September 2020 |date=Feb 2001}}</ref><ref name="premonition-2003">{{cite web |last1=Colombet |first1=Stéphane |title=Interview: Decoded Feedback |url=http://www.premonition.fr/actu/actu.php3?actuid=213001&ad=&vr=&ta=10 |website=Premonition |accessdate=5 September 2020 |date=Mar 2003}}</ref> Their [[Demo (music)|demo tape]] entitled ''Decoded Feedback'' was reviewed by the [[Belgium|Belgian]] industrial music magazine Side-Line, which led to the group being signed to the [[Europe]]an label, Hard Records.<ref name="sideline_2016">{{cite web |last1=Van Isacker |first1=Bernard |title=Decoded Feedback returns with 'Dark Passenger' album |url=https://www.side-line.com/decoded-feedback-returns-with-dark-passenger-album-listen-to-the-first-single/ |website=Side-Line |accessdate=8 August 2020 |date=3 Feb 2016}}</ref>

The group relocated to Toronto, Canada in 1995<ref name="sonicboom_1998" /> and a year later Hard Records released their first full-length CD, ''Overdosing''. Due to format changes at Hard Records, the label began letting go of most of their signed artists but Hard Records' Christian Rosén liked their music so much that he introduced the band to Torben Schmidt at [[Zoth Ommog]].<ref name="sonicboom_1998" /> Zoth Ommog released Decoded Feedback's second disc, ''Technophoby'', in 1997. Since then, [[United States|American]] industrial music distributors [[Metropolis Records]] have released domestic versions of all subsequent Decoded Feedback albums. 

In 2000, Biagiotti and Dudas signed to the record label Bloodline to release ''Mechanical Horizon'', which was preceded by the first ever Decoded Feedback single, "Reflect in Silence". Three years later, Decoded Feedback switched to their current European record label, Out of Line, and released ''Shockwave'', which was preceded by a single, "Phoenix". In 2005, they released  ''Combustion'' as well as contributing the soundtrack for the Cindy Murdoch's short zombie film, ''Red Men Rising'' (music credited to Yone).<ref name="peekaboo-2015">{{cite web |last1=Tabrit |first1=Britta |title=Decoded Feedback: Horror movies are great fun to write soundtracks for |url=http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/decoded-feedback/ |website=Peek-a-boo Music Magazine |accessdate=5 September 2020 |date=31 Aug 2015}}</ref>

The 2010s yielded three albums: ''Aftermath'', released in 2010, ''disKonnekt'' in 2012, and ''Dark Passenger'' released in 2016. The single from ''Dark Passenger'' entitled "Waiting for the Storm" inspired the creation of and provided the working title for the full-length feature film ''[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5079452/ Strangers at the Door]'' by director Rogelio Salinas.<ref name="peekaboo-2016">{{cite web |last1=Coldheart |first1=Stef |title=Decoded Feedback: We don't fall into one specific genre within the industrial community…and we love that |url=http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/decoded-feedback-2016/ |website=Peek-a-boo Music Magazine |accessdate=5 September 2020 |date=7 Jul 2016}}</ref>

Several of their albums have ranked on the German Alternative Charts including ''Bio-Vital'', released in 1998, ''Shockwave'', voted #3 Top International Album of 2003, and ''Aftermath'' voted #5 on May 27, 2010 and staying on the DAC for 7 weeks reaching #2.<ref>{{cite web |title=Decoded Feedback Bio |url=https://www.reverbnation.com/decodedfeedback |website=ReverbNation |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref><ref name="ugp-2001">{{cite web |last1=Jikharew |first1=Egor |title=Interview with italian/canadian EBM-formation DECODED FEEDBACK |url=https://gothic.com.ua/english/interviews/decoded_feedback_int_en.html |website=Ukrainian Gothic Portal |accessdate=5 September 2020 |date=2001}}</ref>

===Live===
Decoded Feedback conducted their first U.S. tour in 1998<ref name="sonicboom_1998" /> and have played several live shows in Europe. The band spent the greater part of 2001 touring with [[Noisex]] and [[Sonar (band)|Sonar]]<ref name="ugp-2001" /> and again in 2003 with [[Haujobb]]. They have played the [[M'era Luna Festival]], the [[Blacksun Festival]] in the USA, Infest 2005, and the Out of Line Festival, as well as touring with fellow Metropolis Records bands [[God Module]] and [[Blutengel]]. In Toronto, Canada, at the EBM Fest 2008, they played as a DJ set because Marco was not present.

==Philosophy and style==
Yone studied at [[The Royal Conservatory of Music]] in Toronto for a short time, but otherwise the duo had no formal music training.<ref name="sonicboom_1998" /> Both Yone and Marco cite early electronic music - e.g.: [[Jean-Michel Jarre]] and [[Kraftwerk]] - as well as [[new wave music]] as influences. Yone cites [[classical music]] and [[punk rock]] as further influences, while Marco cites an affinity for [[gothic rock]].<ref name="starvox-2001" /><ref name="premonition-2003" />

Both members have also cited the tensions that exist between sexes and international boundaries, as well as their unique backgrounds, as a driving force behind their music - especially in an attempt to create their own unique style.<ref name="ugp-2001" />

They originally experimented with the fusion of punk and electro, but over time developed a more cold, industrial-oriented sound. While the band acknowledges that they are heavily influenced by danceable club music, they never set out explicitly to create dance music, but strive to strike a combination of "strength and beauty" in their compositions.<ref name="ugp-2001" /> By the time ''Evolution'' was released, they created a blend of industrial and [[electronic body music]], with "interwoven dance floor textures and symphonic melodies". This sound culminated with ''Mechanical Horizon'', but turned sharply with ''Shockwave'', an album that was seen as something of a return to an older style. ''Combustion'' continued this trend.[http://www.decodedfeedback.com/bio.html]

Decoded Feedback's music is popular within the darker electronic music scene, especially among fans of [[electro-industrial]] music. Comparable artists include fellow Metropolis Records acts [[Haujobb]], [[Wumpscut]], [[Suicide Commando]] and [[Front Line Assembly]], as well as [[Zoth Ommog]] acts [[Leæther Strip]], [[X Marks the Pedwalk]], and [[Toy (German band)|Evils Toy]].

During the 1990s the band identified with M.A.C.O.S. (Musicians Against Copywriting of Samples), a movement that asserted that the fair use of sampled portions of music and movies should be legally available for reuse in artistic works.<ref name="starvox-2001" />

==Discography==
*''Decoded Feedback'' - (CS) 1993 - ''no label''
*''Elektroküte'' – (CS mini album) 1994 - ''no label''
*''[[Overdosing (album)|Overdosing]]'' – (CD album) 1996 - Hard Records, [[Cleopatra Records|Cleopatra]] • (CD album) 2002 - Dying Culture
*''[[Technophoby]]'' – (CD album) 1997 - [[Zoth Ommog Records|Zoth Ommog]], [[Metropolis Records|Metropolis]]
*''[[Bio-Vital]]'' – (CD album) 1998 - Zoth Ommog • 1999 Metropolis
*''[[Evolution (Decoded Feedback album)|Evolution]]'' – (CD) 1999 - Zoth Ommog, Metropolis – #12 [[CMJ]] RPM Charts<ref name="cmj-10-99">{{cite journal |last1=Comer |first1=M. Tye |title=RPM |journal=CMJ New Music Report |date=11 October 1999 |volume=60 |issue=638 |page=27 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1999/CMJ-1999-10-11.pdf |access-date=11 January 2022 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=Great Neck, NY |issn=0890-0795}}</ref>
*''[[Mechanical Horizon]]'' – (CD album) 2000 - Metropolis, Bloodline – #36 CMJ RPM Charts<ref name="cmj-01-01">{{cite journal |last1=Comer |first1=M. Tye |title=RPM |journal=[[CMJ|CMJ New Music Report]] |date=29 January 2001 |volume=65 |issue=699 |page=29 |url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/2001/CMJ-719-2001-01-29.pdf |access-date=24 January 2022 |publisher=College Media, Inc. |location=New York, NY |issn=0890-0795}}</ref>
*"[[Reflect in Silence]]" –  (CD maxi) 2000 - Bloodline
*"[[Phoenix (Decoded Feedback song)|Phoenix]]" – (CD maxi) 2002 - [[Out of Line Music|Out Of Line]]
*''Shockwave'' – (CD album, enhanced) 2003 - Metropolis, Out of Line • (CD album, enhanced) 2004 - Irond
*''BioMechanic'' – (2xCD) 2004 - Metropolis, Out of Line
*''[[Combustion (Decoded Feedback album)|Combustion]]'' – (CD album, enhanced) 2005 - Out of Line, Metropolis • (CD album, enhanced) 2005 - Irond
*''Aftermath'' – (CD album) 2010 - Metropolis, [[Dependent Records|Dependent]]
*''disKonnekt'' - (CD album) 2012 - Metropolis, Dependent
*''Dark Passenger'' - (CD album) 2016 - Metropolis, Infacted Recordings

===Other projects===
*''Hyberia'' – 2005, soundtrack
*''Red Men Rising'' – 2005, soundtrack, (Yone Dudas solo)
*''Strangers at the Door'' - 2017, soundtrack
The above soundtracks have not been released in any format other than in the movies themselves. ''Hyberia'' is a short 3 minute film by Francis T who directed the music videos for the Decoded Feedback songs "Phoenix" and "Hyberia" (the latter of which uses audio elements from the soundtrack). ''Red Men Rising'' is a 15 minute film about zombies, the soundtrack to which was recorded by Yone Dudas.<ref name="redmenrising">{{cite web |title=Red Men Rising |url=https://www.winnipegfilmgroup.com/films/red-men-rising/ |website=Winnepeg Film Group |accessdate=8 August 2020}}</ref>  ''Strangers at the Door'' is a feature film directed by Rogelio Salinas who also produced the band's music video for the song "Another Loss" from the album ''disKonnekt''.<ref name="peekaboo-2016" />

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.decodedfeedback.com/}}
* [http://www.metropolis-records.com/artist/decoded-feedback Decoded Feedback entry] at [[Metropolis Records]]'  website
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[[Category:Canadian industrial music groups]]
[[Category:Italian musical groups]]
[[Category:Electro-industrial music groups]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1993]]
[[Category:1993 establishments in Canada]]
[[Category:Metropolis Records artists]]
[[Category:Zoth Ommog Records artists]]
[[Category:Dependent Records artists]]