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Kore. Ydro. were formed in Corfu, Greece, during the autumn of 1993 by 15-year-old schoolmates Pantelis Dimitriadis & Giorgos Arvanitakis. Not many listeners appreciated their unstoppable output of unrefined, "no-fi" home recordings of trash aesthetics, but word about the group began to spread from mouth to mouth, with extra help from its peculiar live performances, unprocessed video-clips and humorous short "films".
In 2001, pianist/bassist/multi-instrumentalist Alexandros Makris took over, marking a new era for the group, as this is illustrated in the self-produced official debut If All Ever Ended Here [An Ola Telionan Edo], released in March 2003 by the legendary Greek label Wipe Out Records in a run of 515 copies.
The free download-only mini album Seven Months Later [Efta Mines Meta] (available from the official Kore. Ydro. website) followed seven months later (Oct 2003).
In 2006 Kore. Ydro. return with a new album under a new label (Capitol/EMI):
the much anticipated - by a prime minority [hence, the word "elite" of the title] - self-proclaimed "new post-erotic, post-christian, post-communist, post-progressive, post-post-punk "manifesto" of the band is Cheap Pop for the Elite [Ftini Pop ya tin Elit], a self-production of sub-standard budget [hence, the word "cheap" of the title], recorded before the EMI contact, in the group's home studio in Corfu.
The record has received enthusiastic reviews by the Greek music press, while the first single/video (produced and directed by the band) "No More Affairs" [Ohi Pia Erotes] has become a radio/TV hit.
2006 also produced the first live appearance of Kore. Ydro. in Athens (Gagarin 205) [March], as well as the second video from Cheap Pop for the Elite, for the song "Now that I Do not Have Anyone" [Tora pou den Eho Kanenan] [June] and the band-directed video for “The Lovers of Nothing” [oi Erastes Tou Tipota] [November]. The same month, Cheap Pop for the Elite was named by music magazine SONIK (issue 22) “the most important Greek album of the decade up to now”.
Kore. Ydro. live appearances climaxed precisely one year after the release of CPftE [15Feb2007] with their re-appearance in Gagarin 205 in front of a fanatic audience and with an impact that renders the particular appearance a peak in the band’s history.
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Radiohead, Sonic Youth, The Smiths / Morrissey, R.E.M. (w/ B. Berry), Magnetic Fields / Stephin Merritt, Interpol, Pavement, Yo La Tengo, Manos Hadjidakis, Lena Platonos, Arleta, Mikis Theodorakis, Dionysis Savopoulos, Mission Of Burma, The Cure, The Fall, XTC, Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Talk Talk, Husker Du, Throwing Muses / Kristin Hersh, Dinosaur Jr., David Bowie, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Leonard Cohen, Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Buckley, Beck, "Electro-Shock Blues", Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, dEUS, Tinderstics, Sixteen Horsepower, Sebadoh / Lou Barlow, Guided by Voices, Pulp, Blur, Suede (w/ B. Butler), "Without You I'm Nothing", My Bloody Valentine, Pixies, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, "Dust", "Source, Tags & Codes", Boredoms, Bjork, Portishead, DJ Shadow, Super Furry Animals, The Flaming Lips, Mazzy Star, Low, Tortoise, M83, Broken Social Scene, The Microphones, The Wrens, Arcade Fire, "The Disintegration Loops", Dimos Moutsis, Loukianos Kilaidonis, Tzimis Panousis, Lakis Papadopoulos, Stamatis Kraounakis, Thanos & Andreas Mikroutsikos, Haris & Panos Katsimihas feat. Paschalis, Haris Alexiou, Manos Loizos, Afroditi Manou, Vagelis Germanos, Giorgos Hadjinasios, Marios Tokas, Giannis Spanos, Stamatis Spanoudakis B.C., Tripes, Astor Piazzolla, A.C. Jobim, Penguin Cafe Orchestra, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, Brad Meldau, Lucio Dalla, Paul Mauriat, Jean-Michel Jarre, Peter Gabriel, Kate Bush, Annie Lennox, Sinead O'Connor, Tori Amos, Piano Magic, first period Elton John, Paul Simon, The Beatles, The Carpenters, ABBA, Serge Gainsbourg, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, Led Zeppelin, The Who, early Black Sabbath, Television, Guns 'n' Roses, Panx Romana, Antidrasi, Genia tou House, Nickos Karvelas, Stefanos Korkolis, Dionysios Solomos, Georgios Vizyinos, K.P. Kavafis, Kostas Kariotakis, Dinos Christianopoulos, Giorgos Chronas, Titos Patrikios, Nasos Martinos, Lefteris Papadopoulos, Marianina Kriezi, K.H. Myris (primarily as sung by Maria Dimitriadi), Maria Dimitriadi, Sophia Vossou, Fotini Georganda, Petros Gaitanos, Aliki Kayaloglou, Antonis Kalogiannis, Antonis Agertis, Milva, post-punk, art-punk, proto-punk, post-rock, art-rock, prog(nathic)-rock, 80's ambitious DIY new-pop, underground hip-hop, the Motown Sound, "Canzone Italiana", "Chanson Française", MTV 120 Minutes, MTV Greatest Hits, 80s ERT, funeral music, contemporary pop music, Plato, "New Testament", Oscar Wilde, Vassilis Rafailidis, Vassilis Tsivilikas, Frank Sinatra, Jarvis Cocker, Joe Cocker, Evette Jarvis, Steve Albini, Steve Kaketsis, Steve Yiadzoglou, John Taramas, John Dovelos, John Callous, Juan Ramon Rotsa, Jacek Gmoch, Josef Vancik, Nikos Sarganis, Nikos Galis, the artist Nickos Georgiadis, the artist formerly known as Prince, Queen, Ween, first period Kore. Ydro., Radio Station of "Iera Mitropolis Kerkyras, Paxon kai Diapondion Nisson", Pitchforkmedia.com, Zahos Donganos, Totos Agathos, Panagiotis Kobotis and more.
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Band Members
P.E. Dimitriadis, Alexandros Makris, Giorgos Arvanitakis, Konstantinos Amygdalos

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