Alfa Matrix is a Belgian
record label
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the prod ...
. 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 subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...
, 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 started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to ...
.
Based in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
, 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
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32CRASH
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Acylum
*Adam X
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Agonised by Love
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!AïBoFoRcEn<-
*amGod
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Alien Vampires
Alien primarily refers to:
* Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
* Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
** Specifically, intelligent extrate ...
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Armageddon Dildos
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Aesthetische
''4.4U 012.11' is an 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 particu ...
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Avarice In Audio
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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 Al ...
(Previously)
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Bruderschaft
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Cosmic Armchair
Cosmic Armchair are an electronic music duo formed in 2008 in Singapore by Cosmic Jane and Cosmic Ben. The duo are signed to Belgian record label Alfa Matrix.
History
Cosmic Jane and Cosmic Ben first met at the NUS EML (National University of ...
*Crisk
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Cynical Existence
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*Diffuzion
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Digital Factor
Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits.
Technology and computing Hardware
*Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals
**Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...
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Diskonnekted
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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 to 20 minutes, althou ...
*DR. Kövald
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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 ori ...
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Einheit Meister 08.11.81
''Einheit – Zeitschrift für Theorie und Praxis des Wissenschaftlichen Sozialismus'' (English language, English: Unity – Journal for Theory and Practice of Scientific Socialism) was the theoretical journal of the Socialist Unity Party of Germ ...
*Entrzelle
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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
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*Freakangel
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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.
History Formation
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Glis
Glis was an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA. The band experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and instrume ...
*Halo In Reverse
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HausHetaere
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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
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Hungry Lucy
*Implant
*Inure
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I:Scintilla
*Junksista
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Klutæ
Klutæ is an industrial music project founded by Danish musician Claus Larsen, who is best known for his main project, Leæther Strip. Originally formed in 1991 under the name Klute, the project went dormant after 1996's ''Excel''. It reformed ...
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Kant Kino
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Komor Kommando
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Krystal System
Krystal may refer to:
People
* Krystal Ann Simpson (born 1982), American poet, fashion blogger, DJ, reality television personality, and musician
* Krystal Ball (born 1981), American political commentator
* Krystal Barter, Australian activist ...
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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 ...
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Lovelorn Dolls
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Malakwa (Band)
Malakwa is a settlement in Shuswap Country in the Southern Interior of British Columbia, Canada, in the Eagle River valley, along the Trans-Canada Highway between Sicamous and Revelstoke.
The name comes from the Chinook Jargon word for m ...
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Male or Female
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A male organism cannot reproduce sexually without access t ...
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Mari Chrome
Mari may refer to:
Places
* Mari, Paraíba, Brazil, a city
*Mari, Cyprus, a village
*Mari, Greece, a village, site of ancient town of Marius
*Mari, Iran (disambiguation), places in Iran
*Mari, Punjab, a village and a union council in Pakistan
* ...
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Mentallo and the Fixer
Mentallo and the Fixer (sometimes written as Mentallo & the Fixer) is the project name used by Texan electro-industrial musicians Gary Dassing (Mentallo) and Dwayne Dassing (The Fixer) from 1988 to 1999, and by Gary Dassing alone from 1999 to ...
*Metroland
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Mind:state
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Miseria Ultima
*Mnemonic
*Mondträume
*Monolith
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Nebula-H
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Neikka RPM
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Nitzer Ebb
Nitzer Ebb () are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums).
History
Initial releases (1983–1987)
The ...
*Növö
*O.V.N.I.
*Plastic Noise Experience
*Prozium
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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 Impl ...
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Razorfade
*Regenerator
*Reichsfeind
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Schwarzblut
*SD-KRTR (Simon Carter)
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Seize
Seize may refer to:
* Seisin, legal possession
* 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 to insufficient lu ...
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Sero.Overdose
*Simon Carter (SD-KRTR)
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Star Industry
*Stray
*Studio-X
*Suicidal Romance
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Suicide Inside
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Tamtrum
*Technoir
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Trisomie 21
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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, Cello an ...
*Venal Flesh
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Virgins O.R. Pigeons
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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 ...
Compilation albums
*''Square Matrix 003'' (2003; featuring Plastic Noise Experience, Glis
Glis was an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA. The band experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and instrume ...
, Neikka RPM and Regenerator)
*''Square Matrix 004'' (2004; featuring Glis
Glis was an electronic music project founded in 2001 by Shaun Frandsen of Seattle, WA. The band experienced several lineup changes and guest appearances, with frontman Shaun Frandsen acting as primary producer, vocalist, songwriter, and instrume ...
, Seize
Seize may refer to:
* Seisin, legal possession
* 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 to insufficient lu ...
, 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 Al ...
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 ori ...
)
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References
Belgian record labels
Record labels established in 2001
Synth-pop record labels
Electronic music record labels
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