Artist description Loud and noisy guitars mixed and shaked with funky bass-playing combined with groovy drums and dj-ing and the extraordinary voice makes them to what they are: ELX

Music Style Crossover

Musical Influences Funk, HipHop, Groove

Similar Artists Korn, Incubus, Deftones, RATM, Rage against the machine, Snot, Faith no more, elux, e:lux

Artist History Spotlight Southgermany, close to Augsburg/Bavaria, January 2000: Four guys are working on their first EP "Dazed" at the recording studio of a friendly band. With the EP Dazed they made it to the semifinal at a huge european Newcomer-Contest called "Emergenza". Not even one year before that, the 3 friends MCS (Vocals), Joke (Guitar) and Andy (Drums) found the perfect man for the bass: Anderl. After about 8 months intensive rehearsing they felt the strenght and courage to do their first ever liveperformance at a youth-centre on November 26, 1999. After only 3 more concerts the band decided to record their songs and they released them on the Dazed EP in March 2000. The constant live-playing (30 concerts in their first year!) helped them to make their name known fastly (at this time "ELUX") and the first issue of their EP was sold out very soon!The first song Open wide became a "hot-tip" among insiders and different independent-clubs. More and more people wanted to get the song, that's why the band decided to offer and sell their stuff throughout the world wide web and so they have been online with an own webpage from the very beginning.As a result, there was a huge interest worldwide very soon. Suddenly they could find their bands' name and reviews about their cd in a couple of US-Music-Magazines and even one song were put on a spanish cd-compilation! November 2000: A new, little label called E-Sea Records became aware of the Bavarians, who have grown to 5 members with DJ L-Star, responsible for the turntables and samples. After a certain time with lots of negotiations, both sides signed a contract, what was confirmed in March 2001 as a good decision at the releaseparty in Offingen (close Günzburg) by the reactions of the considerably grown fan-community for their newest EP Atma-Shakti, what means something like "Soul-Power" in an indian dialect. And this EP has a lot of soul in its 4 new songs. Open Wide had been remasterd and remixt as the 5th song.These guys never would need to hide behind Atma-Shakti, which is, compared to the Dazed, much more the band itself. Dazed sounded immatured and standing like next to itself many times, but the new songs are convincing with beautiful melodic singing parts as well as with the compact teamwork of the band. They handled the challenge to bring the experiences of the new won stability and security, which they all collected on their many gigs together as band, into the studio to record Atma-Shakti.Loud and noisy guitars mixed and shaked with funky bass-playing combined with groovy drums and dj-ing and the extraordinary voice makes them to what they are: ELX."…stamped with a couple of breaks, they won't let miss any catchy parts. Beyond this there is a voicetalent with them, whose voice finds its way into your ears, while the sound lets vibrate yor stomache." (VISIONS, No. 99, June 2001)

Group Members Mario - Vocals ; Anderl - Bass-Guitar ; Joke - Guitar ; Andy - Drums ; DJ L-Star - TurnTables, Sampler

Albums demo (1999) ; Dazed EP (2000) ; Atma-Shakti EP (2001)

Press Reviews ...this album is great, these guys have a LOT of energy ... the lyrics need a little work, but they hold a lot more value when you become aware of the fact that English is only a 2nd language to them.Undevoured.com, July 2000 / The first song "Open Wide" kicks off with a pretty cool Didgeridoo intro and represents the bands sound pretty good: pretty rough, deep guitars meet funky basslines. Disfunction, May 2000

Location Lauingen, Bavaria - Germany

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