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.

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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 collegiate study at a prestigious audio mastering school and acquired many new instruments and samples. Out of this squalor of college living came his next musical project, Machinedrum. This alias can be described as hip hop accentuated by mutant drum patterns, dense IDM style melodies, and MCs freed in the digital world to slip-up and double-back on their rhymes. His first release as Machinedrum was entitled Now You Know. Travis was instantly in competition with Prefuse 73 as the new era of electronic hip hop, initially started by the likes of Gescom & Push Button Objects. His second release, Half the Battle, included mostly remixes by artists on the Merck Records label. Further, while still cutting beats from jazz records, the release has an atmosphere more oriented towards IDM than Hip-Hop. It includes remixes from Brothomstates, Proem, Lackluster, Esem, Tim Koch, and many others. Since those releases he has released two more well-regarded albums as Machinedrum entitled Urban Biology and Bidnezz, as well as a follow-up to the debut Syndrone album entitled Salmataxia. His album, Want to 1 2? was released on Normrex Records on May 12, 2009.
  • Travis Stewart est un jeune musicien électronique, plus connu sous le nom de Machine Drum, et qui participa au lancement du label montant Merck Records . Il fait partie aujourd'hui des artistes phares du label (l'intégralité de sa discographie y a été éditée), parmi MD, PROEM, Blaimstrain et bien d'autres encore ... Après avoir terminé ses études en audio mastering tout début 2000, où il acquit de nombreux instruments, modules et samples, il apparut pour la première fois sous le nom de Syndrone dans le nouveau label Merck records. Intitulé Triskaideka (sorti en mars 2000), ce premier album, avec ses doubles beats, coupés, ses contre-rythmes,est assez expérimental et se situe dans la lignée du duo Autechre à leur début, avec les douces nappes psychédéliques en plus, et s'apparente à de nombreux autres artistes appartenant pour beaucoup au label WARP, tels qu'Aphex Twin ("I care because you do"), LFO ou plus récemment Team Shadetek. A partir de février 2001, il sortit sous le pseudonyme renommé de Machine drum une série de trois albums, Now you know en février 2001 donc, Half the Battle en septembre 2002, et enfin Urban biology également en septembre 2002. Trois albums, un premier plutôt abstract hip-hop, à l'image de Prefuse 73, et les deux autres se rapprochant plus des travaux récents du duo Autechre, ou éventuellement Team Shadetek. Puis en Mars 2004, sortit le deuxième album sous le pseudonyme Syndrone, nommé Salmataxia. Fondamentalement expérimental, beaucoup plus travaillé et ambitieux que Triskaideka, avec des beats affolés, aléatoires, et ses douces nappes synthétiques en arrière plan, Travis Stewart repousse ici les limites de la musique électronique expérimentale et ainsi se retrouve aux côtés d'Autechre, de Squarepusher,d'Aphex Twin, Murcof et d'autres. Enfin en octobre 2004, le nouvel album de Machine Drum, Bidnezz, bien que plus sage et peut-être moins innovant que Salmataxia, reste dans l'optique de l' hip-hop expérimental .
  • トラヴィス・スチュアート(Travis Stewart)は、主にエレクトロニカ等の電子音楽を作曲する音楽家で、Merckの設立に大きく貢献した一人である。 彼のデビューアルバムはシンドローン(Syndrone)名義によるもので、Autechreのようなグリッチノイズと、旋律的な要素を特徴とする作品である。このデビューアルバムTriskaidekaは生産された1000枚全てが完売し、ヨーロッパのIDMを扱うレーベル、Djak-Up-Bitch(DUB)によって4曲に編集された12インチのEPとして再発されることとなった。 また、彼は2000年より音響のマスタリングを学ぶ為の専門学校に通い、そこで様々な楽器や音楽サンプルと出合った。この経験が彼の新しい名義である、マシーンドラム(Machinedrum)に直結することとなる。このマシーンドラムという名義は前述のシンドローン名義とは打って変わってヒップホップ調の音色や展開、IDM的な旋律や、Prefuse73のようにラップのボーカルをサンプリングし、細切れにして並べ直したカットアップと呼ばれる音楽的技法が特徴で、ナウ・ユー・ノウ、ハーフ・ザ・バトル等のアルバムをリリースしていった後、更に音楽的に成長した印象を受けるアーバン・バイオロジー、ビッドネズの2タイトル、また再びシンドローン名義によるアルバムSalmataxiaを発表する。
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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.
  • Travis Stewart est un jeune musicien électronique, plus connu sous le nom de Machine Drum, et qui participa au lancement du label montant Merck Records . Il fait partie aujourd'hui des artistes phares du label (l'intégralité de sa discographie y a été éditée), parmi MD, PROEM, Blaimstrain et bien d'autres encore ...
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