Alien Faktor were an American

electro-industrial 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 ...

group based in

Milwaukee Milwaukee is the List of cities in Wisconsin, most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located on the western shore of Lake Michigan, it is the List of United States cities by population, 31st-most populous city in the United States ...

, Wisconsin, United States. Created as a solo musical project by multi-instrumentalist Tom Muschitz, Alien Faktor was influenced by EDM,

soundtrack A soundtrack is a recorded audio signal accompanying and synchronised to the images of a book, drama, motion picture, radio program, television show, television program, or video game; colloquially, a commercially released soundtrack album of m ...

and industrial music. The band released four studio albums for

Decibel The decibel (symbol: dB) is a relative unit of measurement equal to one tenth of a bel (B). It expresses the ratio of two values of a Power, root-power, and field quantities, power or root-power quantity on a logarithmic scale. Two signals whos ...

: '' Abduction'' (1994), '' Desolate'' (1995), '' Listen!'' (1996) and '' Arterial Spray & Cattle Mutilations'' (1997).

History

Alien Faktor began in 1991 as a solo musical project for Tom Muschitz out of

. In 1994 Muschitz created the record label

which the made its debut with Alien Faktor's '' Abduction'' album. Its compositions were informed by

and

electronic dance music Electronic dance music (EDM), also referred to as dance music or club music, is a broad range of percussive electronic music genres originally made for nightclubs, raves, and List of electronic dance music festivals, festivals. It is generally ...

. They followed up with a second album in 1995 titled '' Desolate'' that received praise for its stylistic variety. Alien Faktor's third and fourth albums were released in 1996 and titled '' Final Expenses'' and '' Listen!'' respectively by Decibel. ''Final Expenses'' contains remixes and several new tracks while ''Listen'' consists of four lengthy loosely structured compositions. In 1997 Mike Hunsberger joined on guitars and programming to release the band's fifth and final album '' Arterial Spray & Cattle Mutilations'' on Decibel. Keyboardist Lars Hansen from

Oneiroid Psychosis Oneiroid Psychosis is an American dark wave musical duo consisting of brothers Lars and Leif Hansen. Originally known simply as Psychosis, they were discovered by Decibel Records in 1993 and have been making music using the name Oneiroid Psych ...

participated during live touring. In February of the following year the album peaked at position twenty on ''CMJs Dance Top 25. In 1999 the band covered Alanis Morissette's "

You Oughta Know "You Oughta Know" is a song by Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, released as the lead single from her third studio album, ''Jagged Little Pill'', on July 10, 1995. After releasing two studio albums, Morissette left MCA Records, MCA Re ...

" for the various artists compilation '' Nod's Tacklebox o' Fun'', released by

Re-Constriction Records Re-Constriction Records was a division of Cargo Music based in California. The record label, label was founded in 1992 and headed by Chase, who was previously the Music Director at KCR (AM), KCR, a student radio station on the campus of San Dieg ...

Discography

Studio albums * '' Abduction'' (1994,

) * '' Desolate'' (1995, Decibel) * '' Listen!'' (1996, Decibel) * '' Arterial Spray & Cattle Mutilations'' (1997, Decibel) EPs * '' Final Expenses'' (1996, Decibel)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Alien Faktor Musical groups established in 1994 Musical groups disestablished in 1999 1994 establishments in Wisconsin 1999 disestablishments in Wisconsin American electronic dance music groups American industrial music groups Electro-industrial music groups Electronic music groups from Wisconsin Decibel (record label) artists