Kore. Ydro. were formed in Corfu, Greece, during the autumn of 1993 by 15-year-old schoolmates Pantelis Dimitriadis, Giorgos Arvanitakis and Spiros Katagis. Few listeners appreciated their extravagance of unrefined, "no-fi" home recordings of trash aesthetics, but word about the group began to spread from mouth to mouth, with extra help from its peculiar "live performances", unprocessed "music videos" and humorous short "films". The original line up of the band changed by the years; Konstantinos Amygdalos joined in 1997 and Spiros Katagis quitted in 2000.
In 2001, pianist/bassist/multi-instrumentalist (and by the time only real Kore. Ydro. fan) Alexandros Makris joined Kore. Ydro., marking a new era for the group, as this is illustrated in the self-produced official debut If All Ever Ended Here [An Ola Telionan Edo], released in March 2003 by the legendary Greek independent label Wipe Out Records in 515 copies, receiving critical acclaim from the Greek press.
The free download-only mini album Seven Months Later [Efta Mines Meta] (available from the official Kore. Ydro. website), including outtakes from the If All Ever Ended Here sessions as well as later recordings, followed seven months later (10.2003).
February 2004 saw the release of the first official Kore. Ydro. video - also produced by the group - for the song "Your Kindness" [I Kalosini Sou], the highlight of If All Ever Ended Here.
In 2006 and after many postponements, Kore. Ydro. returned with a new album under a new label (Capitol/EMI). The much anticipated - by a prime minority [hence, the word "elite" of the title] - self-proclaimed "new post-erotic, post-christian, post-communist, post-progressive, post-post-punk manifesto" of the band is Cheap Pop for the Elite [Ftini Pop ya tin Elit], a traditionally self-production of substandard budget [hence, the word "cheap" of the title], being recorded before the EMI contact, in the group's home studio in Corfu by Pantelis, Alexandros and the three new members - friends and casual Kore. Ydro. collaborators from the past, who in the meantime had joined the basic artistic team; drummer Alexis Apostolidis (05.2004) and the guitarists Spiros Spirakos (01.2005) and Nickos Varotsis (05.2005).
The record has received enthusiastic reviews by the Greek music press, while the first single/video (produced and directed by the band) "No More Affairs" [Ohi Pia Erotes] has become a radio/TV hit.
In March 2006 the first live appearance of Kore. Ydro. in Athens (Gagarin 205) took place, while it had already been made official the collaboration of the group with bass player Panagiotis Diamantis, who directed the second video from Cheap Pop for the Elite, for the song "Now that I Do not Have Anyone" [Tora pou den Eho Kanenan] [06.2006]
The band-directed video for "The Lovers of Nothing" [Oi Erastes tou Tipota] followed in November 2006. The same month Cheap Pop for the Elite was named by music magazine SONIK (issue 22) "the most important Greek album of the decade up to now". Kore. Ydro. live appearances climaxed precisely one year after the release of CPftE with their re-appearance in Gagarin 205 [15.02.2007] in front of a fanatic audience and with an impact that renders the particular appearance a peak in the band's history.
During 2008 all the lately recruited members left/were alienated gradually from the group (Panagiotis Diamantis due to completion of his studies and his permanent departure from Corfu). Since then Kore. Ydro. continue as a duo again, (always and forever) with the assistance of the visual arts duo Arvanitakis-Amygdalos and the minor (in age only) drummer Fivos Anthis.
The third official album of Kore. Ydro. The Whole Truth about the Children of '78 [Oli i Alithia gia ta Paidia toy '78] was released in spring 2009 in CD by Capitol/EMI and in double LP by the independent Inner Ear.
