Founded in 2008, this one man project wants to bring electronic music where it belongs - to the dancefloor! No romantic song texts, no multi - coloured - plastic - hair sporting singers, and no bats flying out of anyones ass... Just Industrial, Electro, and Hardstyle elements melted down into a substance which forces its consumers into a relentless dancing spree.
Tomasso Marra (Tommyknocker) was born in Italy on january the 20th 1977.
Tommyknocker starts his career in 1994 when he begins performing in some 'illegal' parties which are organized in Rome.
From '95 to '97 he collaborates with the “Virus staff” of Freddy K, and he is Resident Dj of a few discotheques like "06" and after "Oxygen" (the first hardcore club of Rome).
He even takes part to a radio show called "Hardcore Play" where he works as director together with Freddy. From '97 to '99 he plays in the biggest hardcore parties of Rome.
SOMAN is an industrial dance act from Germany, headed by Kolja Trelle. In the start, Kolja Trelle was a sound engineer for many well known bands, including: Absurd Minds, Hocico and Terminal Choice, as well as remixing songs for many other bands. Soman has its very own unique sound mixture of Noise, Electro and Techno, or more often described as 'Industrial For Clubs' Soman has also played live in over 60 acts and also supported more known bands, like VNV Nation.
There is more than one Radium on last.fm: 1. Hardcore fan since 1992. In 1993 Daniel Tecoult started producing extreme electronic music with a friend from school. In 1994 they decide to give their project a name and Micropoint is born. Also Daniel starts a solo-DJ career as Radium. The first Micropoint vinyls are released on B.E.A.S.T. Records and Epiteth Records in 1995. 1996, Radium starts Audiogenic and his first own label called Psychik Genocide and with 2 other producers from Paris, Micropoint starts Dead End Records.
Although Evil Activities nowadays 'officially' consists only of Kelly van Soest (after Telly Luyks left the group in 2003) Two new members have joined this project:
- Michael Kramer (alias DJ Dazzler) -> MC
- Niels van Hoeckel (alias Chaosphere) -> Keyboard
However, they are only part of the live-act crew (during performance on stage). In the studio, Evil Activities is only Kelly van Soest.
Kelly is also better known as Max Enforcer in the hardstyle scene.
KiEw is a German electro-industrial project founded in late 1990 by Andreas "Thedi" Thedens. It started with avant-garde and dada-industrial sound experiments, later changing to more rhythmic power electro-industrial/power noise. The band uses a lot of break beat and techno elements and voice samples from movies, audio books, etc. Signed to Out of Line since 2000. Main themes in most tracks are insanity, schizophrenia, paranoia and therapy. Discography:
The Bielefeld, Germany based live / studio project Punch Inc. was founded in august 2000. Both protagonists, Andreas Brinkert and Andreas Glöckner are equally responsible for synthesizer, sampling and programming (both have played in various projects since 1992). Andreas Glöckner (aka Moctan) experimented with electronic dance music and supported local industrial projects like Ars Moriendi, Asche, Morgenstern and Monokrom, while Andreas Brinkert (aka Bipol) achived recognition as an innovative bass player and sound constructor with Klang, WOMP and Templegarden's.
Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Bitch Brigade is dark electro band founded in 2006 by Agr1ppa. Bitch Brigade began as an experiment for Agr1ppa and blends a mixture of power noise, industrial and electro-pop. The rest of Bitch Brigade members are Zero_ (keyboards) and Ping! (drums). Bitch Brigade has released online their first EP "Pastel Aggressive" on 16 Feb 2010. Band has signed to the U.S. based crunch pod label to release her debut album "Dendrite".