On a cold autumn evening in Milan in 1981, Nino La Loggia and Giacomo Spazio met for the first time. Both were regulars of the Concordia bar, one of the few meeting places for the post-punk generation. Nino with Mark Philopat (now an established writer) had given birth to HCN, one of the pioneering punk bands of the peninsula. Giacomo was a performance artist, interested in graphics and was looking for a new form of painting that was innovative and provocative. When the two met, an idea sparked. They had the same passion for music: Kraftwerk, Joy Division, DAF, and the whole scene of proto-electronic wave. Together they decided to start a musical project called 2+2=5, a tribute to Orwellian dystopia. The two decided roles immediately: Nino was to pursue the sound to the limit of experimentation, while Giacomo wrote the texts. The band made their debut at the "Cinema-Music Non-Stop" at the Cinema Porpora in Milan in May 1982. Shortly after, Cha Cha Hagiwara joined the band, already a keyboard player in Jeunesse D'Ivoire, enriching the band's raw sound with sonority that now defines analog. After several concerts in Milan, Turin, and Switzerland, the trio recorded their first album
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