Gothic Theatre
Manufactura
In just four years Seattle’s Karloz.M has made quite a name for himself as Manufactura, taking the power-noise scene by storm with his critically acclaimed debut album Regression and his aggressive live performances. Ranging from rhythmic noise, drill n’ bass, trance, electronica, IDM, industrial, EBM & old school electro, Regression quickly became a favorite among a vast array of electronic music fans.
As one half of the upstart label Auricle Media (along with Scott Sturgis of Converter/Notime/Pain Station), Karloz.M has released the works of such artists as Broken Fabiola and Notime. He has also worked on various production work and collaborations with such artists as Chris Randall (Sister Machine Gun/Micronaut), Daniel Myer (Haujobb/Architect/Cleen), Dre Robinson (Databomb/Noise Box), and Shaun Frandsen (Glis/Ayria).
In 2003 a whole new breed of powernoise/ebm synthesis congealed within the confines of the Manufactura studio. Having signed to Hive Records to release his second album, Precognitive Dissonance, Karloz.M brings a new diverse evolution in the Manufactura sound, this time brilliantly melding dark liquid atmospheres, acid-worn dirty noise rhythms, and pounding EBM influences with his signature brand of crushing powernoise rhythms. Obscure samples frame the infectiously driving tracks that prove to be just too concussive to sit still to—this is music made for movement. This is all the proof that a naysayer may need that industrial music is not dead, but evolving into something wholly greater than the recycled clichés of yesterday.
