Artist description Solo hack-and-slash project. Heavy guitars and thick sequences, distorted vocals, and smashing beats, with a sci-fi horror overtone that doesn't take itself too seriously. Campy butchered audio- debauchery!

Music Style industrial metal, punk

Musical Influences Ministry, Einsturzende Neubauten, Throbbing Gristle, Crime Story, old Misfits, Dead Kennedys, Skinny Puppy, Diamanda Galas, TKK, The Cramps, Big Black, Jesus Lizard, Cop Shoot Cop, Tom Waits.

Artist History Alex Machine was officially born on December 31st, 2001 in a damp oil-spattered basement located somewhere in Pittsburgh. Prior to that, there had been a few unfortunate (yet ultimately necessary) miscarriages in sound. While barely worth mentioning, Dead Ringers (the longest lived) did help to evolve the bad genes that would lead up to Alex Machine. I got my start in music by taking a cheap correspondence course in (drumroll, please) "electronic music technology", which didn't really do much for my current job as a meat cutter yet did score some gear on the easy pay plan to get me started in fulfilling my childhood dream of becoming Trent Reznor... Well, after I got the tools I dropped the course and quit paying, so my credit was bad until the school went under in debt(something about promising great careers to underpriviledged ghetto ghouls, but I could be mistaken). I also got a swell framable diploma for my shining achievements which I had already forgotten how to achieve because I was too busy trying to figure out how to program the synth. Oh, and I bought a guitar from a russian jew, or, I mean, a jewish russian, and he gave me some crash courses in exchange for my buying him vodka (no kidding). I created many experiments as Dead Ringers, before meeting up with Ursula who joined in. Eventually we started to write some real songs that had an actual hint of logic to them, and I was also making great money at my porno-cashiering job (no matter what you do or how much they pay you, it always breaks down to buying and selling meat). So now I could afford some of the gear I wanted to really get things rocking, and it worked. Ursula and I both came to the decision it was time to change the name from Dead Ringers to ??? Well, I was calling myself Alex Machine, and that didn't seem too pretentious and would be easy to remember, plus it made me feel cool like a gangster from the 40's which I found very appealing. So I started writing songs as Alex Machine, and from there it became a solo project after Ursula lost interest. PMP Records was in touch almost as soon as Alex Machine was up on mp3.com, and I quickly hooked up with them on an informal signed basis that will enable Alex Machine to further spread. By the dawn of 2003, "The Engineer", my first CD as Alex Machine, was released, and from there, we are here. A new record is in the works (VOLUME, to be released at the end of 2003), and Alex Machine will do anything in the meantime for a cheap thrill.......

Instruments Guitar, Bass, Moog MG-1, Korg Prophecy, Casio SK-1 (extremely bent and beaten black and blue, Bedlam HI-LUX, computer. A kawai on the side and a roland sh3-a stored in the closet in case the moog dies.

Albums The Engineer(2003), VOLUME(coming soon)

Press Reviews Updates and links to these are available at http://www.alexmachine.com or http://www.stormpages.com/antiworld/ (to avoid frames)

Location Baltimore, Maryland - USA

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