Travis Stewart

Infobox musical artist
Name = machinedrum


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Background = solo_producer
Birth_name = Travis Stewart
Origin = Eden, North Carolina, U.S.
Instrument = Sequencer, Keyboard (primary instruments)
Computer
Sampler
Genre = IDM, Glitch, Hip-Hop
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 2000 - 2008
Label =
* [http://www.m3rck.net Merck Records]
* [http://www.normrex.com Normrex Records]
Associated_acts = Prefuse 73, Gescom, Push Button Objects, Autechre, Dabrye
URL = http://www.machinedrum.net

Travis Stewart is an electronic musician and one of the artists who helped launch Merck 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.

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 forthcoming album, "want to 1 2?" is scheduled for release in 2008 on Normrex records.

Aliases

*Machinedrum
*Syndrone
*Tstewart
*Neonblack

Discography

Full Albums:
* Syndrone - Triskaideka (CD & 12") Merck
* Machinedrum - Now You Know (CD & 2xLP) Merck
* Machinedrum - Half The Battle (CD & 3x12") Merck
* Machinedrum - Urban Biology (CD & 2xLP) Merck
* Syndrone - Salmataxia (CD) Merck
* Machinedrum - Bidnezz (CD & 2xLP) Merck
* Tstewart - Living Exponentially (CD) Merck
* Machinedrum - mergerz & acquisitionz (2xCD)
* Machinedrum - want to 1 2? Normrex (2008)

External links

* [http://www.machinedrum.net Official Machinedrum Website]
* [http://www.m3rck.net Official Merck Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/machinedrum Official Myspace Page]
* [http://www.virb.com/tstewart Official Virb tstewart Page]