about

in 1998 Daniel Dixon (Xinod) and Michele Fini (Miky), already members of the industrial band Teatralità tecnomeccanica, formed Blankform to experiment with more electronic-based music.

Early days saw them mixing analog and digital sounds with the electric bass-guitar, thanks to the former TTM bassist Christian Petrongolo, and progressing in later years to work on almost completely digital generated music.

Along with the wide spectrum of electronic music, design and architecture (daily occupation of both) play an important role as inspiration for their unique style.

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what they say

Electronic music will rule the world so forget all your rock expectations and follow the Blankform path which in "Prototypes" tries to lead to a "braindance" experience.
It deserves a deep listen, because there 's no solipsisim in their music, they tend to involve you and not to stress on smart escamotages; they change mood in a quick but soft way, to the extent that you almost don' t perceive the different soundscape […]

Fabrizio Galassi - Rockstar (05/08)

I run across the "permanent oxymoron" represented by these tracks […] to discover with Startup a neuro-pictorial or particlear music […], a coded language, where Fractals and The Surface pay homage to the "geometrical order" of the universe as intended in certain philosophical speculations. In Pulsar it seems to whitness a process of rarefaction: from liquid matter inbued with an acustic sonority to a pure energetic form […] In Rufis and dRealm, the noise evocates organic functions, framing that ineffable moment when human chemicals mutate into emotions […] Music as perception, to depict what somewhere else would be melody, but here pioneers more uneasy regions […]

John Ardy - Intercity (02/08)

as the saying goes "out of the frying pan into the fire" and "every cloud has a silver lining" here come, respectively, […name other band…] and Blankform, the former dealing with a bad punk rock imitation of the Hives[…], the latter with some real good minimal electronic.

Massimo Ronchini - Music Club (12/05)

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