Travis Stewart

Travis Stewart is a young electronic musician, more known under the name of Machine Drum, and which took part in the launching of the rising label Merck Records . It makes to party today artists headlights of the label (the integrality of its discography was published there), among MANDELEVIUM, PROEM, Blaimstrain and well of others still… After having finished its studies in audio mastering any beginning 2000, where it acquired many instruments, modules and samples, it appeared for the first time under the name of Syndrone in the new label Merck records. Heading Triskaideka (left in March 2000), this first album, with its happy doubles, cut, its against-rates/rhythms, is rather experimental and is located in the line of the duet Autechre at their beginning, with the soft psychedelic tablecloths moreover, and are connected with many other artists belonging for much to the label WARP, such as Aphex Twin (" I care because you do"), LFO or more recently TEAM Shadetek. From February 2001, it left under the famous pseudonym Machine drum a series three albums, Now you know in February 2001 thus, Half the Battle in September 2002, and finally Urban biology also in September 2002. Three albums, a first rather abstract hip-hop, with the image of Prefuse 73, and two others approaching more recent work of the duet Autechre, or possibly TEAM Shadetek. Then in March 2004, left the second album under the Syndrone pseudonym, named Salmataxia . Basically experimental, much more worked and ambitious that Triskaideka, with happy thrown into a panic the, random ones, and its soft synthetic tablecloths in background, Travis Stewart push back the limits of the experimental electronic music here and thus finds at the sides of Autechre, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Murcof and others. Finally in October 2004, the new album of Drum Machine, Bidnezz , although wiser and perhaps less innovating that Salmataxia, remains in the optics of the experimental hip-hop.

Pseudonyms

. Drum machine

. Syndrone

Discography

. March 2000: Syndrone-Triskaideka, Merck records

. February 2001: Machine Drum-Now you know, Merck records

. September 2002: Machine Drum-Half the Battle, Merck records

. September 2002: Machine Drum-Urban Biology, Merck records

. March 2004: Syndrone-Salmataxia, Merck records

. October 2004: Machine Drum-Bidnezz, Merck records

bonds

merck records
official site of Machine Drum

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