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Alfa Matrix is a Belgian
record label "Big Three" music labels A record label or record company is a brand or trademark of Sound recording and reproduction, music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a Music publisher, ...
. Founded in 2001, the label releases musical styles including
aggrotech Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the early 1980s. While EBM (electronic body music) has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial tends to have a grittier, complex and layered sound w ...
, industrial music, dark elektro,
synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a music genre that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s and early 1970s ...
, and
electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that came to prominence in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mos ...
. Based in
Brussels Brussels, officially the Brussels-Capital Region, (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) is a Communities, regions and language areas of Belgium#Regions, region of Belgium comprising #Municipalit ...
, the label consists of label and artists manager Séba Dolimont, promo manager Bernard Van Isacker, and head of design Benoît Blanchart. The label celebrated its 20th anniversary with a compilation release ''matriXX – 20 Years of Alfa Matrix'' in December 2021.


Artists

* 32CRASH * Acylum *Adam X * Agonised by Love * !AïBoFoRcEn<- *amGod * Alien Vampires *
Armageddon Dildos Armageddon Dildos is a German electro-industrial-duo originally consisting of Uwe Kanka (vocals) and Dirk Krause (synthesizer). The act was formed in 1988 in Kassel Germany, and the name comes from the slang term for intercontinental ballistic mi ...
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Aesthetische ''4.4U 012.11' is a split EP by Aesthetische, Daniel B. Prothése, Mentallo & The Fixer and Metroland, released on November 6, 2012 by Alfa Matrix. It is part of the compilation series that Alfa Matrix issues, with the theme of this particula ...
* Avarice In Audio *
Ayria Ayria is a Canadian futurepop/synthpop musical project formed in early 2003 by Toronto's Jennifer Parkin following her departure from the futurepop and EBM band Epsilon Minus. Biography The first Ayria album, ''Debris'', was released on Alfa ...
(Previously) * Bruderschaft * Cosmic Armchair *Crisk * Cynical Existence *Diffuzion * Digital Factor * Diskonnekted *
Dream Recall A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5–20 minutes, althou ...
*DR. Kövald *
Dunkelwerk Dunkelwerk is the name of a German band which describes its sound as ''Endzeit Electro'' (dark electronic beats and sounds often combined with Nazism themes or horror apocalyptic scenarios and distorted vocals), referring to a genre which was or ...
* Einheit Meister 08.11.81 *Entrzelle *
Epsilon Minus Epsilon Minus were a Canadian EBM/techno/trance band formed in 2000 by Bogart Shwadchuck and Jennifer Parkin. The name "Epsilon Minus" is a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel ''Brave New World''. History Epsilon Minus was started in 2000 ...
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Essence of Mind Essence () has various meanings and uses for different thinkers and in different contexts. It is used in philosophy and theology as a designation for the property or set of properties or attributes that make an entity the entity it is or, expre ...
*Freakangel *
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 influenced the electronic and industrial music genres. History Formation Front 242 were for ...
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Glis Glis is an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA. The band has experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and inst ...
*Halo In Reverse * HausHetaere *
Headscan Headscan is a Canadian music duo, composed of electronic musician Claude Charnier and singer Christian Pomerleau, based in Montreal, Quebec. The pair combines dark trance and industrial dancefloor-oriented electronic and acoustic music.
*Helalyn Flowers * Hungry Lucy *Implant *Inure * I:Scintilla *Junksista * Klutæ * Kant Kino * Komor Kommando * Krystal System *
Leæther Strip Leæther Strip is a Danish musical project founded on 13 January 1988 by Claus Larsen. Its influence has been most felt in the electronic body music and electro-industrial genres. Leæther Strip was one of the earliest and most prominent acts ...
* Lovelorn Dolls * Malakwa (Band) * Male or Female * Mari Chrome *
Mentallo and the Fixer Mentallo and the Fixer (sometimes written as Mentallo & The Fixer) is the project name used by American electro-industrial musicians Gary Dassing (Mentallo) and Dwayne Dassing (The Fixer) from 1988 to 1999, and by Gary Dassing alone from 1999 t ...
*Metroland * Mind:state * Miseria Ultima *Mnemonic *Mondträume *Monolith * Nebula-H *
Neikka RPM Neikka RPM is an electronic music, electronic band from the United States, launched in 2001. Their work has been released under the Alfa Matrix label. Releases In 2002 ''Neikka RPM''’s first single, “I Am Your Girl” appeared on the Cybe ...
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Nitzer Ebb Nitzer Ebb () are an English electronic body music, EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Bon Harris, Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums). The band were ...
*Növö *O.V.N.I. *Plastic Noise Experience *Prozium *
Psy'Aviah Psy'Aviah is an electronic rock band from Antwerp, Belgium. Career The band were formed in 2004. Later that year, they won the Studio Brussel Demopoll with the song "The Future of the Sun". In 2007, they teamed up with Len Lemeire (from Implant ...
* Razorfade *Regenerator *Reichsfeind * Schwarzblut *SD-KRTR (Simon Carter) *
Seize Seize or seise may refer to: *Seisin, legal possession of property *Seizing, a class of knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes *Seize (band), a British electronic band *The jamming of machine parts against each other, usually due t ...
* Sero.Overdose *Simon Carter (SD-KRTR) *Star Industry *Stray *Studio-X *Suicidal Romance * Suicide Inside * Tamtrum *Technoir *
Trisomie 21 Trisomie 21 is a French cold wave (music), cold wave group, formed in Lille, France, Lille, France, in 1980 by brothers Philippe and Hervé Lomprez. History Throughout the 1980s and '90s, Trisomie 21 was signed to PIAS Recordings, Play It ...
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Unter Null Erica Dunham, better known by her stage name Unter Null, founded the solo aggrotech music project in 1998 at the age of 17, while living in Seattle, United States. , she is based in Portland, Oregon. Dunham is trained in classical piano, ce ...
*Venal Flesh * Virgins O.R. Pigeons * Virtual> *XMH *
Zombie Girl Zombie Girl is a Canadian electro-industrial/industrial rock project started in 2005. Initially composed of Renee Cooper and producer Sebastian Komor, the group now consists exclusively of Cooper, who uses live musicians. The band's lyrics and t ...


Compilation albums

*''Square Matrix 003'' (2003; featuring Plastic Noise Experience,
Glis Glis is an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA. The band has experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and inst ...
,
Neikka RPM Neikka RPM is an electronic music, electronic band from the United States, launched in 2001. Their work has been released under the Alfa Matrix label. Releases In 2002 ''Neikka RPM''’s first single, “I Am Your Girl” appeared on the Cybe ...
and Regenerator) *''Square Matrix 004'' (2004; featuring
Glis Glis is an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA. The band has experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and inst ...
,
Seize Seize or seise may refer to: *Seisin, legal possession of property *Seizing, a class of knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes *Seize (band), a British electronic band *The jamming of machine parts against each other, usually due t ...
,
Ayria Ayria is a Canadian futurepop/synthpop musical project formed in early 2003 by Toronto's Jennifer Parkin following her departure from the futurepop and EBM band Epsilon Minus. Biography The first Ayria album, ''Debris'', was released on Alfa ...
and
Dunkelwerk Dunkelwerk is the name of a German band which describes its sound as ''Endzeit Electro'' (dark electronic beats and sounds often combined with Nazism themes or horror apocalyptic scenarios and distorted vocals), referring to a genre which was or ...
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