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Technocracy
12+ albums
crossoverthrash metalgroove metalindustrial metalUnited States
about
Sometime in 1997, Steve Machado began using Vio-Lence songs to create his own remixes; essentially combining the guitar tracks from the original songs to his own beats and sequences. An amalgam of house music and thrash metal, it was not just an original method of covering his favorite music, it was a fairly new approach to music in general. Realizing Machado and Demmel had a mutual friend, Machado passed along some of his tapes to Demmel and he was impressed. Demmel (TORQUE & Vio-Lence) was pretty much "done" with the music scene at the time; however, he was inspired by Machado’s vision and was inclined to collaborate with him. Even though TECHNOCRACY was supposed to be a two band-member project, it eventually became clear that the creative team was too rich with talent to keep it to themselves. The decision was made... Machado and Demmel would form an official band to see if their uber-technical and industrial style of music would work as well live as it did on tape. Phil recruited good friend, and the only human he could think of that could recreate the complex electronic drum beats they created, Mark Hernandez (Vio-Lence, TORQUE). He also asked long-time best friend, Brian "Shack" Snyder, to be in control of the keyboard duties. Hernandez, who was also playing with Chris Addison in a different project (unsigned and disbanded Means to an End with Mike Roberts from Skinlab and Dave Moore from Re:Ignition), was given a referral from Addison to use Chris Hanson as their e
