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Sergio Messina
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Discography
"RadioGladio" (1990)
La Vendetta del Mulino Bianco (1994)
Inaudito (1996)
BIO
Sergio Messina is both an experimental and a mainstream pop artist and producer known in Italy primarily for his radio work. He also played an important role in the early history of rap Italiano.
Since 1975, Messina has been involved in numerous experimental radio projects in Italy and Austria that include a stint as a DJ on the pirate station Radio Città Futura, works created for the theater, and a widely-distributed serial program about AIDS.
In 1990, he recorded "RadioGladio," a rap in English about an Italian right-wing coup d'ètat funded by the CIA. "RadioGladio," which became Messina's pseudonym, was distributed as a copyright-free cassette to some 300 radio stations worldwide. Frank Zappa got hold of a copy and proclaimed it "an example of how rock can serve to open people's eyes."
In 1993, Messina produced 99 Posse's second album Curre Curre Guagliò, which sold more than 60,000 copies, and co-authored the title track.
The following year he released his mini-album La Vendetta del Mulino Bianco, an ironic critique of advertisement's perverse power over society. Using the pseudonym Buddha Stick, Messina released his 1996 album Inaudito, writing, performing, and mixing all the music. The following year the album was made available in its entirety on the Net in mp3 format.
Messina has collaborated with a wide range of Italian groups, including Casino Royale, Elio e le Storie Tese, Avion Travel, LHP/Piombo a Tempo, Aeroplanitaliani, Disciplinatha, and Technogod.
In 1997, Messina co-founded the Electro Pathological Consort, an electronic trio made up artists from Melbourne and Vienna that uses the Net as a workspace and as a distribution outlet. He has also written extensively on new technologies.
In 1999, he launched the sites Radio Lilliput and Duplex.
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