Razzle Dazzle Trax | zh

Chicago born and bred Melvin Oliphant aka Traxx is known for constructing the "jakbeat" sound -- "a turbo-charged take on old school acid and Chicago house for the '00s put together with the unmistakeable tones of classic analogue gear such as the TR-909, TR-808, and, of course, the TB-303". Traxx himself talking about this phenomenon: "It's a truly separate genre in its own right... the reason is because jakbeat is influenced from not just by techno and house, it derives from elektronic body music, freestyle, disco not disco, punk-goth, synth pop music, minimal wave (meaning rare tapes) and italo... our...

Atrax Morgue was a power electronics / death industrial project from Sassuolo, Italy, founded in 1992 by Italian noise musician Marco Corbelli. He was born in 1970 and committed suicide in 2007. Corbelli had always had a fondness for and interest in death. His music was inspired by disturbing subjects such as murder, isolation, psychosis, pornography, necrophilia, fetishes, pathology and diseases. In 1990 Marco Corbelli started a self-printed Italian magazine titled "Murders", focusing on serial killers and extreme industrial reviews. It only lasted three issues but ended with the creation of Atrax Morgue and his own label Slaughter Productions. The...