PREMIERE: KKD - Yellow Sky

KKD - In a secret room BUY LINK: https://rawculture.bandcamp.com/album/in-a-secret-room Label: Raw Culture (https://soundcloud.com/raw-culture-recordings) https://www.instagram.com/raw.culture.records/ Format: 250 limited 12”+ ​50 limited edition with risograph fanzine In a Secret Room is a retrospective that reopens the sonic and visual archive of KKD, bringing back to light a trajectory that long remained underground within the history of Italian new wave. The tracks, recorded between 1979 and 1986, reflect a constantly evolving process shaped by experimentation, improvisation, and a drive toward new languages. The project takes shape inside a former hotel in Italy’s Po Valley, transformed into a studio, rehearsal space, and visual lab. Here, among analog synthesizers, homemade electronics, and multitrack recorders, Kriminal Killer Division experimented with and pushed their available technology to its limits, developing a hybrid language: sounds captured from radio and the street, synthetic voices, guitars, and electronic sequences intertwine in compositions that move between art rock, minimal wave, and more industrial directions. This collection aims precisely to reactivate that imaginary. The vinyl is accompanied by a risograph fanzine that restores the project’s visual dimension: collages, photographs, and graphic materials reflecting the same experimental attitude found in the recordings. Sound and image move together, as parts of a single expressive device. In a Secret Room offers access to a hidden space where interference, noise, and intuition take form without mediation. Not a nostalgic operation, but a re-emergence: a living archive that continues to generate meaning in the present. Credits: Music by KKD — Loris Barbi, Alessandro Molinari, Guido Molinari, Giancarlo Vitali.
All tracks were recorded between 1979 and 1986. Sergio Gavioli plays bass on “Underworld”. “I Need Help” appears on Stars Behind the Sun, Synthetic Shadows, 2015. “And Your Mind” appears on First Relation, Mask Production, 1983. Compiled by Asymmetrical. Mastered at Sensorium. Graphic design by Roberto Lenza. Raw Culture, Rome 2026. RWCLTR031