Alfa Matrix is a Belgian

record label A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark of music recordings and music videos, or the company that owns it. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the produ ...

. Founded in 2001, the label releases musical styles including

aggrotech Electro-industrial is a music genre that emerged from industrial music in the early 1980s. While EBM (electronic body music) has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial tends to have a grittier, complex and layered sound wi ...

industrial music Industrial music is a genre of music that draws on harsh, mechanical, transgressive or provocative sounds and themes. AllMusic defines industrial music as the "most abrasive and aggressive fusion of rock and electronic music" that was "initiall ...

, dark elektro,

synthpop Synth-pop (short for synthesizer pop; also called techno-pop; ) is a subgenre of new wave music that first became prominent in the late 1970s and features the synthesizer as the dominant musical instrument. It was prefigured in the 1960s a ...

, and

electronica Electronica is both a broad group of electronic-based music styles intended for listening rather than strictly for dancing and a music scene that started in the early 1990s in the United Kingdom. In the United States, the term is mostly used to r ...

. Based in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, the label consists of label and artists manager Séba Dolimont, promo manager Bernard Van Isacker, and head of design Benoît Blanchart. The label celebrated its 20th anniversary with a compilation release ''matriXX – 20 Years of Alfa Matrix'' in December 2021.

Artists

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* Acylum *Adam X * Agonised by Love * !AïBoFoRcEn<- *amGod * Alien Vampires *

Armageddon Dildos Armageddon Dildos is a German electro-industrial-duo originally consisting of Uwe Kanka (vocals) and Dirk Krause (synthesizer). The act was formed in 1988 in Kassel Germany, and the name comes from the slang term for intercontinental ballistic mi ...

Aesthetische ''4.4U 012.11' is an split EP by Aesthetische, Daniel B. Prothése, Mentallo & The Fixer Mentallo and the Fixer (sometimes written as Mentallo & the Fixer) is the project name used by Texan electro-industrial musicians Gary Dassing (Menta ...

* Avarice In Audio *

Ayria Ayria is a Canadian futurepop/synthpop musical project formed in early 2003 by Toronto's Jennifer Parkin following her departure from the futurepop and EBM band Epsilon Minus. Biography The first Ayria album, ''Debris'', was released on Alf ...

(Previously) *

Bruderschaft Bruderschaft is an electronic music collective led by New York City-based DJ Rexx Arkana. Conceived as a charity project focused on cancer research and treatment in the wake of Arkana's father's death from the disease, Bruderschaft brought toge ...

Cosmic Armchair Cosmic Armchair are an electronic music duo formed in 2008 in Singapore by Cosmic Jane and Cosmic Ben. The duo are signed to Belgian record label Alfa Matrix. History Cosmic Jane and Cosmic Ben first met at the NUS EML (National University of ...

*Crisk *

Cynical Existence Cynicism is an attitude characterized by a general distrust of the motives of "others". A cynic may have a general lack of faith or hope in people motivated by ambition, desire, greed, gratification, materialism, goals, and opinions that a cynic ...

*Diffuzion *

Digital Factor Digital usually refers to something using discrete digits, often binary digits. Technology and computing Hardware *Digital electronics, electronic circuits which operate using digital signals **Digital camera, which captures and stores digital i ...

* Diskonnekted *

Dream Recall A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, althou ...

*DR. Kövald *

Dunkelwerk Dunkelwerk is the name of a German band which describes its sound as ''Endzeit Electro'' (dark electronic beats and sounds often combined with Nazism themes or horror apocalyptic scenarios and distorted vocals), referring to a genre which was ori ...

* Einheit Meister 08.11.81 *Entrzelle *

Epsilon Minus Epsilon Minus were a Canadian EBM/techno/trance band formed in 2000 by Bogart Shwadchuck and Jennifer Parkin. The name "Epsilon Minus" is a reference to Aldous Huxley's novel ''Brave New World''. History Epsilon Minus was started in 2000 ...

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*Freakangel *

Front 242 Front 242 is a Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. Pioneering the style they called electronic body music, they are a profound influence on the electronic and industrial music genres. History Formation Fr ...

* Glis *Halo In Reverse * HausHetaere *

Headscan Headscan is a Canadian music duo, composed of electronic musician Claude Charnier and singer Christian Pomerleau, based in Montreal, Quebec. The pair combines dark trance and industrial dancefloor-oriented electronic and acoustic music.

*Helalyn Flowers *

Hungry Lucy Hungry Lucy was a dark wave and trip hop duo with a female vocalist. Beginning in 1998, they released four full-length CDs on Alfa Matrix in Europe (including EU only 2-CD boxset versions) and on Hungry Media for the US. Led by Christa Belle ( ...

*Implant *Inure * I:Scintilla *Junksista *

Klutæ Klutæ is an industrial music project founded by Danish musician Claus Larsen, who is best known for his main project, Leæther Strip. Originally formed in 1991 under the name Klute, the project went dormant after 1996's ''Excel''. It reformed i ...

* Kant Kino * Komor Kommando * Krystal System * Leæther Strip *

Lovelorn Dolls Lovelorn Dolls is a Belgian female-fronted gothic rock/metal band founded by guitarist Bernard Daubresse and singer Kristell Lowagie. Their sound is made of heavy guitar riffs, loud catchy melodies, up-paced synth sequences and Kristell’s char ...

* Malakwa (Band) * Male or Female * Mari Chrome *

Mentallo and the Fixer Mentallo and the Fixer (sometimes written as Mentallo & the Fixer) is the project name used by Texan electro-industrial musicians Gary Dassing (Mentallo) and Dwayne Dassing (The Fixer) from 1988 to 1999, and by Gary Dassing alone from 1999 to t ...

*Metroland * Mind:state * Miseria Ultima *Mnemonic *Mondträume *Monolith * Nebula-H *

Neikka RPM Neikka RPM is an electronic band from the United States, launched in 2001. Their work has been released under the Alfa Matrix label. Releases In 2002 ''Neikka RPM''’s first single, “I Am Your Girl” appeared on the Cyberlab 3 compilatio ...

Nitzer Ebb Nitzer Ebb () are a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris (programming, synthesizers, drums, vocals), Douglas McCarthy (vocals), and David Gooday (drums). History Initial releases (1983–1987) The g ...

*Növö *O.V.N.I. *Plastic Noise Experience *Prozium *

Psy'Aviah Psy'Aviah is an electronic rock band from Antwerp, Belgium. Career The band were formed in 2004. Later that year, they won the Studio Brussel Demopoll with the song "The Future of the Sun". In 2007, they teamed up with Len Lemeire (from Imp ...

* Razorfade *Regenerator *Reichsfeind * Schwarzblut *SD-KRTR (Simon Carter) *

Seize Seize may refer to: *Seisin, legal possession *Seizing, a class of knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes *Seize (band), a British electronic band *The jamming of machine parts against each other, usually due to insufficient lubri ...

* Sero.Overdose *Simon Carter (SD-KRTR) *

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*Stray *Studio-X *Suicidal Romance * Suicide Inside *

Tamtrum Tamtrum was an Aggrotech duo from Aix-en-Provence (France), composed of artists Benoit XVI and Sylvicious. They released many singles on many different compilation albums such as ''Cyberlab Volume 5.0''. The friendship of Benoit and Sylvicious ...

*Technoir *

Trisomie 21 Trisomie 21 is a French cold wave group, formed in Lille Lille ( , ; nl, Rijsel ; pcd, Lile; vls, Rysel) is a city in the northern part of France, in French Flanders. On the river Deûle, near France's border with Belgium, it is the capi ...

* Unter Null *Venal Flesh * Virgins O.R. Pigeons * Virtual> *XMH *

Zombie Girl Zombie Girl is a Canadian electro-industrial/industrial rock project started in 2005. Initially composed of Renee Cooper and producer Sebastian Komor, the group now consists exclusively of Cooper, who uses live musicians. The band's lyrics and t ...

Compilation albums

*''Square Matrix 003'' (2003; featuring Plastic Noise Experience, Glis,

and Regenerator) *''Square Matrix 004'' (2004; featuring Glis,

and

)

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References

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