Upitup.com 2010

“Isocore is Paolo also known as Pablo or el Bruschetta.Born in ‘83, Isocore lives in a cultural desert area of Rome, the eldest city, where he grew up with hate and spaghetti all’amatriciana. His open-minded family permitted him to develop a refinated taste for graphics and design, sound, music - but not for fashion. He’s actually a barbarian, like the ones that destroyed Rome, addicted to disorder and creation. One day back in 1999, this 190cm tall guy teamed up with Pierlo in order to start creating their own music. Numerous beer-fueled meetings created cccBoriki, that later incorporated Jacques Malchance, too. After a period of inactivity, the trio scouted the wurstel Tracky B and decided to found this label known as Upitup. Isocore then started to produce his own sound, freeing his more aggressive style. His first track “Parapetasma tattico” is based on a true story that happened in a catacomb. Followed by his remix for the canadian duo An Elephant never Forgets, “Power corporation”, a punk hardcore song that turns into an epic industro theme! Yeah!
At this point isocore (that has to be read eeh- sow- coh – reh) decided to partecipate in a remix contest for Global Goon (Rephlex Records). He got in second place with his “emo-static beat”, a concept track based on the movie Requiem for a Dream by Darren Aronofsky.
Later Upitup released “Pre-core”, Isocore’s debut album.
In some interviews he mentions his main influences being “Sonic Youth, Team Doyobi, Bogdan Raczynski, Prefuse 73 and Fugazi” but you could also find some Aphex Twin or Venetian Snares in his sound. He also says: “I’m influenced by wine”.Apart from some 808 samples and amen breaks here and there, Iso prefers to use his own samples. The thing he loves most are software synthesizers. He has never used windows.
His Live performances are totally undanceable, and highly ear-damaging. Last year he moved to Gasteiz (EH) a city in the mountains of the southern Pyreneans. In his latest interview he said: “Ardo beltza bat, mesedez!”, which means that’s all OK! He’s been working on his new upfree, “Tutte le strade portano a Roma” for some 2 years now, and a new one is developing in Euskal Herria called “Muri de noize”. Cassandra Simonsen,
Rolling Stone