HYPOGEO is Nicola Grigatti’s dark progressive project,  already well known as COMA SECTOR, combo Darkpsy founded in 2004 together with his close friend Luca Folli (aka Anx-Void Controller).

Nicola’s musical career begins in 1999 when he starts attending guitar lessons. One year after he sets up with Luca and other friends the band Entropy Engine, clearly  dedicated  to avant-garde death-metal structures. It’s in these years, 2001/2002, that Nicola and Luca begin to move rapidly to the first italian rave parties, mainly around Bologna (LINK and LIVELLO57) where they discover electronic under-world movement. At that time Luca was already playing tekno-industrial with various machines & sinths and Nicola, fascinated by that world, goes straight after him and buys his first groovebox, a ROLAND MC909. He composes 2 liveset with it, tekno and psy. Feeling dissatisfaction, in Nicola’s lab the keybord leaves place to a good PC with Cubase Sx3 wired to a CLAVIA Nordmodular G2. After a couple of years testing under the nickname PLASTIC CHOICE, the duo give birth to COMA SECTOR project, meeting with a huge international success. Coma Sector releases appear on the best known psychedelic trance labels, such as Parvati rec., FreeRadical rec., Goanmantra rec. At the same time Nicola starts another successful collaboration with another italian producer and friend, DUST, releasing 4 tracks as COMADUST.

After some years of fast and furious bpm Nicola feels he needs to wind down and begins creating tracks ranged between 130-140 bpm that immediately get the psychedelic, deep industrial make-up already developed with ComaSector, but now more mental and hypnotic. Here the search for sound clearly drives back to Nicola’s roots, mainly draining from EBM/Industrial and his favourites darkwave bands (among the others:Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Nine Inch Nails, Joy Division, Bauhaus etc.).

It’s March 2010 when Hypogeo releases a digital EP – Wars Worms and Whores - under the wing of the well known autralian label Zenon rec., spreading his renewed sound in the skies of darkprogressive world. rapidly other releases for GlitchyTonic rec and Uroboros rec follow this EP and before 2010 ends more are going to come out for Zenon rec. and Soundcraft rec.

 http://www.myspace.com/hypogeo