Travis Stewart, better known by his stage name machinedrum, sometimes capitalized Machine Drum, is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck Records. He is also the owner of New York-based Normrex Records. He has also sold rights to some of his music to Adult Swim for tracks played during some of their program interludes.
His debut album was released under one of his aliases, Syndrone. The style of which could best be ...
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Travis Stewart, better known by his stage name machinedrum, sometimes capitalized Machine Drum, is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck Records. He is also the owner of New York-based Normrex Records. He has also sold rights to some of his music to Adult Swim for tracks played during some of their program interludes.
His debut album was released under one of his aliases, Syndrone. The style of which could best be described as tracking Autechre stylized glitch but adding a bit of venous melody. Syndrone's debut, Triskaideka started off small but within a matter of years sold out of 1,000 copies and was soon licensed by a respected European IDM label called Djak-Up-Bitch.
Machinedrum employs the use of a Tracker in the early stages of his production process. Specifically, he uses Schism Tracker. Further, Stewart uses Ableton Live for sequencing. Both programs are run on the Mac OS X platform.
He is also the brother of Daniel Stewart.
In 2000 he began...
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