Front Line Assembly, Ministry, Godflesh, Front 242, Fear Factory, NIN, Strapping Yound Lad, Velvet Acid Christ, Meat Beat Manifesto, Icon of Coil, KMFDM, Faith No More, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, Laibach, Marilyn Manson, Haujobb, Einsturzende Neubauten, Cabaret Voltaire, Skinny Puppy, Juno Reactor, VNV Nation.
Sounds Like
New school industrial/EBM with industrial metal and coldwave influences. Bastard child of NIN and Fear Factory? I don't know. We don't sound like anything else, really, but the influences do show up. What we don't sound like: we're not a bad imitation of any other band. This is fucking original!
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What is Malfunct?
Malfunct is an audio process that seeks the machine in human and human in the machine. Bootstrapped in the beginning of 21st century when it came to our attention that new sounds would be needed to define the transhuman.
Malfunct!
Defunct!
That's what we are!
Malfunction is the basic capability of every organism.
Malfunct has evolved from an industrial metal project to a progressive electronic project which seeks to blend together some of the coolest styles in modern industrial/ebm. To reflect upon this venture in an amusing way, we have conceived of some idiosyncratic subgenre names for our music. Electro Thrash contains the energy of 80's thrash metal such as Metallica and Megadeth while banging on distorted synths with the backing of electronic percussion as the vocals deliver the might of metal. It is industrial metal without the guitars. Dark Funk takes industrial to its roots with funky bass lines and all around fun with cynical lyrics based on a dark yet FUNKEY electro sound. We have also interpreted Unter Null's style of trance-like hellektro to be "helltrance" while kidding around on side-line forums. Some other underground artists like AlphaQuadrant and Tourian have presented interesting pieces on this concept as well as Malfunct's "Helltrance in A minor". Helltrance is around 140bpm or faster and it is similar to dark psy-trance, but has more of the industrial/goth elements. Kind of like a grimmer version of Juno Reactor, if such a thing is possible. The basic idea is to write the trance piece that demons will enjoy, without the hellektro cheese. Previously, we have also written many pieces in a very old school style, defying conventions of pop music, but many people have mistaken it for poor production, some of which are available for download above. Therefore, we have also invented Preset Electro which many other bands seem to be doing, it involves working with synthesizer presets. Jokes aside, Malfunct is an ever evolving musical project, and promises you to always challenge your taste in sound!
A bit of history
Malfunct was founded with the name Malfunction in year 2000 by Eray Ozkural,
Arda Tipi and Murat Uney. We experimented with a lot of styles from industrial
metal to EBM, and as far as we know we are the first band in Turkey to give serious attention to EBM, strange as it sounds.
In preceding years, Eray worked on experiments in computer music while
Arda perfected a progressive guitar style and Murat was the master of thrashing riffs and
sound manipulations on the guitar. Two productive years in 2000 and 2001 gave birth to
the initial but decisive sound of the band.
Following a hiatus in 2002 due to relocations and other difficulties,
Eray continued producing and composing on his own, towards the sound of malfunction, renaming the project as Malfunct since there was an old metal band with the name Malfunction.
Some results of this work are available on this site.
A 1 hour long demo CD called "Promo Machine" that contains 17 tracks was
distributed to selected people which contained pieces from a wide variety of styles including
old school industrial, EBM, industrial metal, electro metal, IDM, etc. in 2005, most of which were instrumental.
This is the era after Promo Machine and it features a more "professional" sound, i.e.
sounds just like other bands! However, the tracks "Cypherpunk Alliance" and
"Sleep" are from the Promo Machine CD, and they feature the more original and
less pro. sound of Malfunct.
New Relase "Ground Zero" by Zoharum A 37-minute story about the destruction of the concrete world is presented in 6 pieces in a dark ambient/industrial climate. Additionally the record also contains a video clip
we would like to remind You that PREORDER for a brand new EP from Suicidal Romance "A Kiss to Resist" is already available. Thank You for Your support!
HI so great your product ,it's an opening on your turkish sounds, mind european labels are certainly keen to distribute your product. our movment had originally start from solidarity between each independant labels
I ve been starting experimental in the 80's we had a label called OTD (rip) ,if you are an adept of rare track of the early age of industrial , we had few groupes into international compilation of industrial, as "OBJECTION" "IN AETERNAM VALLEY" early age industrial hard core as "PACIFIC 231" we have diffused as well punk "NEW DUSTBINS", gothique, new wave as " "EPITAPHE" or "NORMA LOY" cold wave -early gothique as "L 'ENFANCE ETERNELLE" our label is born in the hope the movment will carry on , so I ve just mentioned few groups of our area of rhones alpes FRENCH PRODUCT , of course our label had diffuse the product of the others independant labels .the fusion it had happen from industrial gave birth to ... about my own product , i ve been loosing saddly 3.5 years of hard work of sounds my 2001-2004 product , because of a virus that had ruin it. it's a pity net be use this way .I have a new little product i m working on actually so on , soon sounds mine on my own page, I will let you know.
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