Mark Stewart
Mark Stewart is an artist, vocalist, producer and songwriter from Bristol, England. As a founding member of The Pop Group and as a soloist, Stewart has remained an anarchic and pioneering figure since the punk era, a constant source of discordance amongst the frontiers of post-punk, dub, industrial and electronic music.
SINE
SINE is an alternative rock/electronic band created and led by singer and drummer, Rona Rougeheart. She has stepped from behind the kit to create her own strong, sexy female fronted project that weaves dance beats with industrial noise and layers of booming bass, synths and guitars into a mix of jagged textures and dark, lush fusions.
Dead Voices On Air
Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey's experimental and industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France. Dead Voices on Air has collaborated with artists such as cEvin Key ( Skinny Puppy) in Download, Not Breathing , Rapoon and corporatE unclE.
LESSoN SeVEN
Lesson Seven (or Lesson 7) is a techo-industrial darkwave band originally from Dallas, Texas (1986-1992, 2019-). scott crow (Audio Assualt, corporatE unclE) on vox and synths was joined by David Starfire on guitars, bass and synths and Wynne Martin (Energy Fools, Mothman SF, Audio Assault) on synths, sampling and programming in 1988. They had rotating guest drummers including Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails, Tweaker) who, while on hiatus from NIN, filled in for one live performance opening for Clan of Xymox in Dallas in 1991 before rejoining NIN. This incarnation of the band lasted until 1992 before everyone amicably split to pursue other projects.
Mark Pistel
Mark Pistel has had a career in music spanning over 3 decades.
Producer, engineer, mixer, re-mixer, recording artist, performer and live show designer, Mark has acquired a diverse and unique skill set with his vast and varied experiences over the years.
stephen mallinder/Eric Random
Stephen Mallinder is an English artist, musician and writer who was a founding member of Cabaret Voltaire, and went on to work as Sassi & Loco, the Ku-Ling Bros., Hey, Rube!, Wrangler, and Creep Show. In addition to music, he is currently a professor in Bristol, England.
Eric Random is a British pioneer of post punk electronica. Born in 1961, Eric soon joined the Buzzcocks’ road crew. At the age of 17, he co-founded The Tiller Boys with Pete Shelley and Francis Cookson, playing their live debut in 1978 supporting Joy Division at Manchester’s Factory Club. After Pete Shelley left to form The Buzzcocks, The Tiller Boys soon fell apart. Eric founded Free Agents with Cookson and soon met Richard H. Kirk and Stephen Mallinder of Cabaret Voltaire, becoming involved in the Sheffield scene as much as the Manchester one. Random felt at home in both scenes.
sole & DJ Pain 1
Sole: In 1998 he founded Anticon Records, the first collectively owned indie Hip-Hop label in the United States. Since then, Sole has played over a thousand shows throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, the Middle East and Japan. Recently, Sole pulled his masters from anticon and has re-invented himself as a new kind of artist, business, and political entity. His music has been featured in major media outlets such as Rolling Stone, 2DopeBoyz, Pitchfork, MTV, Huffington Post, Spin, Alarm Press, Alternet and many more.
scott crow
scott crow has had three themes that have run through his life: music, storytelling and collective liberation. Some of his musical projects are: Lesson Seven, Audio Assualt and corporatE unclE. From 1988-1992, with Lesson Seven, he toured opening for Nine Inch Nails and Skinny Puppy as well as opening for almost every major act including Ministry, Swans, Revolting Cocks, Psychic TV, Front Line Assembly, Consolidated, MC 900 ft. Jesus, Laibach and Die Warzau, among others.
Adrian Sherwood
Adrian Sherwood is an English record producer specialising in the genre of dub music. He has created a distinctive production style based on the application of dub effects and dub mixing techniques to other forms of electronic dance music and popular music outside of the genre.
Audio Assault
Audio Assault was a political industrial techno-hip hop band in Dallas, Texas from 1990-92. They were one of the first acts to combine hip hop, industrial rhythms and rock guitars. Their first single “Element of Danger”, produced and mixed by MC 900 Ft. Jesus (Mark Griffin), was a regional hit, charting on KDGE radio.
Consolidated
Consolidated is an American radical activist music group, formed in 1988 and best known in the early 1990s as an alternative dance/industrial music band. Between 1989 and 1994, their instrumental style evolved from industrial, to hip-hop, to hard rock and funk with mixtures of live instruments and electronic instruments.
JG and the Robots
JG and the Robots is a unique EDM experience. It incorporates a variety of Robots with electronic dance music. The music takes a step in a new direction from traditional electronic music. JG and the Robots will open your mind to the dark realms of electronics that are swiftly becoming self aware. The music breaks free from reality and the bonds of space and time.
Meet Beat Manifesto
Meat Beat Manifesto features composer and sound sculptor Jack Dangers. His constantly evolving musical invention has generated a long string of futuristic classics including a track featured in the sci-fi fantasy blockbuster The Matrix and on its platinum-selling soundtrack. An acknowledged innovator in the electronic music scene, Jack Dangers continues to stretch sonic boundaries and influence new generations of sound activists.
Sarah Hartman / R34L
R34L is a Chicago based elecontrica duo with Sarah Hartman and Cason Trager.
eH has been collaborating with Sarah Hartman on a few new songs and remixes for the US.
Mic Crenshaw
Mic Crenshaw was born and raised in Chicago and Minneapolis and currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Crenshaw is an independent Hip Hop artist, respected emcee, poet, educator and activist.
Mic Crenshaw was a founding member of the Minneapolis Baldies and Anti Racist Action. He has released dozens of albums and collaborated with Dead Prez, Sole, Audio Assault and others.
Televangel
Televangel (Ian Taggart) has been producing and releasing music for 15 years, first with ground breaking ambient cloud-rap production duo Blue Sky Black Death and for years as an innovative solo artist and collaborator (Young God, Deadpan Darling, Televangel/ scott crow) releasing dense, lush soundtracks for our age.
Kerri Atwood
Kerri Atwood started singing back up vocals for Lesson Seven and Energy Fools in the mid to late 80s, then went on to lead her own band Sexy Finger Champs (Austin,TX) as well as singing with Pong (Austin, TX) in the 90's and 2000's. She currently collaborates with Paul Soliel /Christeene, singer and author scott crow and producer and musician Televangel in additon to writing, performing and producing plays and theater.
Steve Marsh
Steve Marsh (Miracle Room, Terminal Mind, Radarcave, Evil Triplet, Life Skills Deptartment, Wisdom Tooth) has been Austin, Texas' legendary noise and experimental noise maestro, recording and releasing sounds as well as being a visual and video artist, since the late 70s.
Energy Fools
Energy Fools was a Dallas, Texas based band that existed from 1986-1988, featuring Wynne Martin (synths, samples), Chris Read (vocals), Kerri Atwood (vox on Falling Into Sleep, background vox, violin) and John (guitars). Wynne left the Energy Fools to join Lesson Seven and Audio Assault in 1988. Kerri recorded back up vocals with Lesson Seven in 1989, then went on to lead her own band Sexy Finger Champs (Austin, TX), among other projects, in the 90's to today. Kerri and scott crow recorded new tracks with producer and musician Televangel.
International Thief Thief
International Thief Thief (I.T.T.) was a music/art collective from Ft. Worth, Texas feauturing Randy Johnson (Audio Assault, Lily White Lies), J.Antonio Long (Lily White Lies, Audio Assault), Terry Sims, Wynne Martin (Lesson Seven, Audio Assault, Energy Fools), Ron Stanley, Jason Wolford (Teledubgnosis, Decadent Dub Team, Audio Assault) and John Birdsong (Beck).
Patrick Codneys / Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242
Front 242 is a Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. Pioneering the style they called electronic body music, they are a profound influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.
Pine Tree Radar
Pine Tree Radar is an electronic darkscape project from artist Brian Hundley.
corporatE unclE
corporatE unclE is an an analog ambient noise sound collage project from scott crow which existed initially from 1985-1988, issuing one rare handmade limited-edition cassette of 50 copies with collaborator Rob Foreman in 1985, and another cassette of a solo performance in 1988.
Machine X
Machine X is a pseudonym for a mysterious Texas based musician and producer. Machine X has collaborated with Patrick Codneys of Front 242 on a number of eH releases.
Toxic Water
Toxic Water - Austin, TX duo of industrial post punk theatrical mood swingers with some amazing homemade instruments and beautiful emotional baggage. Consisting of Jessi Sopolis (BiPolar Gentlemen) on vox, bass, electronics and percussion, and Richard Smith (Miracle Room, Crust, BiPolar Gentlemen) on percussion, electronics, guitars and drums.
Microchip League 2.0
Microchip League 2.0 was founded 1986 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany by RaHen and Talla 2XLC with occassional collaborator Alexander Henninger. Current members: RaHen (Robotiko Rejekto) and Marco Drago (Robotiko Rejekto).
birthCenter
birthCenter is multimedia artist Milo Harkness Smith's audio focus as of late. Plied from analog rhythm and sound machines blended through primitive digital low tech, birthCenter creates danceable post-apocalyptic landscapes while Rome burns. Occasional collaborators include: scott crow (Lesson Seven, Audio Assault, corporatE unclE) and Listening Chamber's David Glenn Smith.
Mythrus
Mythrus is an experimental darkscape electronic project from Santiago Ramos and is part of our NuHorizons series.
Future Ghosts
Future Ghosts (formerly known as Three Trees) is the dynamic outgrowth of three seasoned musicians: Thor Harris (Swans, Angels Of Light, Thor & Friends), Lyman Hardy (Pong, Total Unicorn, The Portal) and Brockett Hamilton (Lord Buffalo, the low lows, ((Sounder)) ). Along with collaborators Mark Spybey (Dead Voices On Air, Download), Jarboe (Swans), Travis Weller (Shearwater, Austin New Music Coop), Scott Gibbons and more...enjoy the sonic interpretations of our times.
Mr Mrs Accident
Mr. Mrs. Accident was a short-lived experimental art and musical project based in Dallas, Texas from 1985-1987. It featured Ann Harkness (vox), David Glenn Smith (guitars, synths, production) and Tahnee Payne Barbee (violin). David Glenn Smith later formed musical projects Goya, and Listening Chamber, and has collaborated with birthCenter's Milo Harkness Smith and Jane Hunt.
The Hunger
The Hunger is a Houston techno-industrial rock band founded by the brothers Jeff and Thomas Wilson in 1986. After a long hiatus, they’re back, joined by Alex Slay (drums), Richie Hey (bass) and Jeff Smith (guitar). The Hunger have returned to release new music for the first time in more than 15 years with a self-titled 7-track album, and a series of singles for 2021-2022.
Texas electronic & experimental music 1980-2000
BGP was formed in the late 80s by Devin Venable with Todd Dixon just after they left SPY. It was a side project he had been wanting to do as he was interested in acid house music, and that genre didn't really suit SPY. Devin originally talked about collaborating on BGP with a house DJ named Jeff (not Jeff K) who recommended more cowbell on "styrofoam treehouse", but the collaboration was short lived.
Clan of Xymox
Clan of Xymox originally formed in Holland in 1983. They became one of the pioneers of the dark and moody electronic music that later became known as darkwave. They shortened their name to Xymox in 1988. The Xymox era ended in 1997 when, in the midst of a revival in the gothic scene, Ronny Moorings made the decision to restart Clan of Xymox and return to his musical roots. Since then, the band has released a series of critically acclaimed albums.
Cat Hall / DISSONANCE
Cat Hall / DISSONANCE began in the early 90's as part of the Texas synthpop scene, playing live at Dallas venues such as the Lizard Lounge, Curtain Club, Galaxy Club, Trees, and Arcadia. Cat’s vocals have been described as a “siren song”, “compelling”, and “angelic”, layering several harmonies and textures in a unique manner. DISSONANCE caught the ear of Paul Robb (Information Society), who was forming his label Hakatak International, and was signed in 1996. Her first self-titled release Dissonance, produced by Robb, came out in 1997.
David May
David May was a music and video producer, musician and electronic record label owner. Originally from Dallas, Texas, David developed many electronic groups in the late 80s-90s including: Nufenkorp, KBD, Liquid 25, Cybortronik World Media, DeerPark Ambient, Noise Matrix, DeerPark Reflections, Demolition League, Joy Circuit, 9Six, DJ Redstar, Switzerlab, Kryonik, and David Evil. He released these projects and other Texas bands through his own visionary Cybortronik label.
David Glenn Smith
David Glenn Smith spent almost 40 years as an artist, musician and filmmaker. Listening Chamber is one of his musical projects whose use of technology, from portable tape recorders to modifying software or devices, has shaped its unique sound.