Early history:

DreDDup were formed in June 1997 in the small city of Novi Sad after guitarist Mihajlo left his former band Mind Control to join Robert (vocals). After six months of rehearsing, the band recorded and released their demo, Beyond the Dark Portal. Its title was taken from a line in the rpg game " Warcraft". During the late 1990s dreDDup were part of what was known as the darkwave/techno influenced band but were always known as an industrial band.

Music

Their music is characterised by dark, truthful lyrics and an obsessive attention to atmospheric detail. Early demos were industrial noise in a traditional sense, though much faster than most. However, their debut demo album R U Digital!? Saw the addition of violins,keyboards, female back vocals and live instruments in the first row. Much more demos and EPs were recorded. DreDDup experiments with weird sounds and analog noise samples. R U Digital!? Built on that foundation, utilising distortion as well as dark atmosphere and, unusually, back choirs on several tracks. That album saw the abandonment of rough screaming vocals and added a more depressing feel to the songs. "3010" EP continued in that direction. DreDDup made many soundtracks for films and some weird theatre music for the plays.

Works:

Although primarily a musical group, dreDDup has sometimes worked in other media. In their early years, produced several works of video art. It was not until 2004's MR Borndead's Feast that dreDDup managed to win round the bulk of their former fans. More innovative than R U Digital!?, yet retaining all the key elements of the early era, Mr Borndead's Feast was slightly darker, although a long way off the intense darkness of the first two demos. Vocals was now distorted in other ways and much more in the feeling of the singed subject. 2004's showed a band continuing to expand and refine their sound and purpose. A substantial increase in live performances - once an unheard of rarity - has lead to much greater recognition by a new generation of fans. In collaboration with
Former band members and Rebeka Vajs, Mihajlo recorded CutNPaste a industrial/grind/noise project.

In 2005, the band's label, MoocSound Records , re-released their Mr Borndead's Feast album in digipak format.. 91 Design made polymorph graphics especially for their re-release. It showed a young Asian woman corrupted by digital technology and roots. The band's next release came in February 2007, when they released the fancifully-titled "Works 1996-2007" a fully-fledged box set featuring one disc and twenty four tracks from all of dreDDup's eras. Containing some rare material recorded in late 1996. Never released in public.

Members:

dreDDup’s history started in 1996 when Mihajlo founded the band Mind Control. After that, in 1997 he formed the very first dreDDup. It is believed that in the first dreDDup the members were only Mihajlo and Robert. Later, Rose joined the band as singer and Aca as percussionist . In the first period dreDDup were only four members. In the late ‘90s, those 4 full time members were Mihajlo, Robert, Tjyana and Aca. From time to time, some other persons, such as Merima, female singer from the UMT group replaced Tiyana. Simbe replaced Robert on drums but soon left the group. New members joined the band and some left the group. During the early 2002 Dyogen joined the band on bass and recorded some songs on R U Digital!? . DJ Carolina and MC
Sanya joined the band. Soon Prosic and Kenji joined the band and Prosic became drug addict. Prosic left the band and was replaced by Dragan. Seengia guested on keyboards in several occasions. DJ Carolin, MC Sanya and Dragan left the band. It was
Now a completely new set of people, including Michael, the only one of the original dreDDup set. Soon new members joined and Kenji left the group. DreDDup toured the SCG in 2006, playing shows all over the country. Changing their music to industrial/hardcore with noise influences, band spent the winter of 2006/2007 writing material for new studio album Future Porn Machine. Sonn after the album was finished they were contacted by "Insurrection Records", who were prepared it publish their
New LP. Also, dreDDup made some Nine Inch Nails remixes and sign for their contest. It was very odd that Nine Inch Nails actually liked their remix (of some 600 contestants) and decided to publish it in 8 track CD called "Open Source Remixes" which will be published soon.