El Conquistadors
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El Conquistadors is the third official album of Serbian industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 group dreDDup
DreDDup
dreDDup is a Serbian industrial rock/crossover band.-History:dreDDup was formed in 1997 in Novi Sad. The band's first official release was Abnormal Waltz from 1998, the soundtrack for the movie Noir that was never finished...

. It was first released in 2009 for the Belgrade record label Insurrection Records. This was the third album that had a complete story behind it. Like the first and second release talked about the past and the future (Mr Borndeads Feast and Future Porn Machine), this album experimented with the dark present tense of mankind.
Taking us to the boundaries of the human being and the terrorizing truth that lurks in the shadow of hostile envirement all around. The title is purposely misspelled. The artwork was created entirely by the artist Danica Bicanic and it presented the visual art of dreDDup music. This album also concluded some guest musicians such as DJ Shark Zowie & Briggite. The complete production and studio mastering and mixing was done by miKKa. Album was digitally remastered and re-released for Beast of Prey Records from Poland in May of 2010.

here is the album manifest taken from dreDDup website:

"Get ready for blood, tears and sperm. This album talks about the present tense and the mankind, the boundaries of ones desires, dreams and mistakes. This is our statement to this rusted world, to these wasted dreams and plastic reality with real life and unreal people. We're sick of mediocrity in their bodies who walk empty streets without any real purpose. This album talks about them, about their sorrow, mistakes and inner demons. Without them we do not exist and without us they are nothing. This is about something real. It's about this fallen mankind. This world has become occupied, surrounded and unhealthy. We do not agree with this worlds systems of values. This is world without values, without inner boundaries that confront served mediocrity. We're so fucking sick of it all, and want to live in some better place, and really feel our childhood energy. So we named our album 'El Conquistadors' (proper Spanish title would be 'El Conquistador') but we want for those smart-ass motherfucking self-masturbating people to say that we're wrong, to say that they know better and to hear from their empty minds what do we need to do to live happy mediocrity life. And we're not even going to ask you to listen to this album, no - if you see it just run away from it, hate it, laugh at it, be the one of El Conquistadors who crush worlds without trying to feel them. Be the other one inside you, get stupid, lazy and un-civilized. But be warned - it will be too late to come to your senses in the end....."

Track listing

  1. Clockwork – 4:30
  2. First Blood – 5:07
  3. With No Teeth – 5:09
  4. Opening – 5:50
  5. Space Error – 4:00
  6. Invisible Tears – 5:01
  7. Mind Games – 4:02
  8. Last One – 4:05
  9. The New Pain – 4:43
  10. El Conquistadors – 6:32
  11. Futurism (mrbd mix) – 5:55
  12. Oregon – 5:56
  13. Return of the TV – 2:43
  14. One of Us – 5:15
  15. Amputated Soul – 6:24

Personnel

  • Mihajlo Obrenov; miKKa
    MiKKa
    Mihajlo Obrenov is a Serbian musician, sound engineer, film director and record producer best known for producing bands such as dreDDup, MRT, CutNpaSte, Lignjoslav, Drop Dead, 3D Rošava Pipe, Mefisto and ZANAos. miKKa worked on many music related projects and engineered sound for a lot of bands &...

     – lead vocals
    Lead vocalist
    The lead vocalist is the member of a band who sings the main vocal portions of a song. They may also play one or more instruments. Lead vocalists are sometimes referred to as the frontman or frontwoman, and as such, are usually considered to be the "leader" of the groups they perform in, often the...

    , electronics
    Electronics
    Electronics is the branch of science, engineering and technology that deals with electrical circuits involving active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies...

  • Ivan Francuski – drums
    Drum kit
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  • Bojan Radakovic – lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

  • Nemanja Batalo – bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Karolj Burai – violin
    Violin
    The violin is a string instrument, usually with four strings tuned in perfect fifths. It is the smallest, highest-pitched member of the violin family of string instruments, which includes the viola and cello....

  • Jovan Matic – back vocals
  • Danica Bicanic – back vocals

Production

  • Nikola Pavlicevic – producer
    Record producer
    A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

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  • miKKa; miKKa
    MiKKa
    Mihajlo Obrenov is a Serbian musician, sound engineer, film director and record producer best known for producing bands such as dreDDup, MRT, CutNpaSte, Lignjoslav, Drop Dead, 3D Rošava Pipe, Mefisto and ZANAos. miKKa worked on many music related projects and engineered sound for a lot of bands &...

     – engineer
    Audio engineering
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  • miKKa; miKKa
    MiKKa
    Mihajlo Obrenov is a Serbian musician, sound engineer, film director and record producer best known for producing bands such as dreDDup, MRT, CutNpaSte, Lignjoslav, Drop Dead, 3D Rošava Pipe, Mefisto and ZANAos. miKKa worked on many music related projects and engineered sound for a lot of bands &...

     – remaster
    Remaster
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Sources

  • http://www.discogs.com/Dreddup-El-Conquistadors/release/1819579
  • http://beastofprey.com/lab_A_wy_bop71.htm
  • http://www.terapija.net/mjuzik.asp?ID=6307
  • http://www.tvorac-grada.com/hczin/Broj83/rcz.html
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