Manufactura

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Name: MANUFACTURA
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Years Active: 1998 - present
Label: Auricle Media / Crunch Pod Records
Current Members: Karloz.M

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Karloz.M started working on music in 1998 mainly using tape-to-tape experimentation. That same year a friend heard some recordings and urged him to get a computer. In 1999 Karloz.M began working on his very first computer produced material, mainly working on beats, that he could use on his DJ nights. Friend DJ Hana-Solo in Seattle heard some of these beats and told him to work on a fully constructed track with all the nuts and bolts. After listening to some of the very first 1999 demo tracks, DJ Hana-Solo and his friend Scott Sturgis of Converter and Pain Station fame told Karloz to keep writing and to fully pursue a music outlet. The result was the birth of Manufactura in the fall of 2000. Scott Sturgis and Karloz.M decided to create a small label together where they could release their material without any “label bullshit”. Early 2001 saw the birth of the label Auricle Media and the release of Manufactura’s debut CD titled “Regression”.


Since the release of the Debut CD for Manufactura, Karloz.M has been working non-stop on remixes for many artists with in the powernoise, EBM, synthpop, Industrial genres such as Converter, Combichrist, Terrorfakt, Haujobb, Sonar, E-craft, Aghast View and many more. He’s done album production work for artists such as Glis, Sister Machine Gun and Violent Entity. Designed CD covers and logos for Glis, Violent Entity, And Christ Wept, C/A/T, Consume, CTC, as well as his own projects Manufactura and Broken Fabiola.


As co-founder with Scott Sturgis and operator of Auricle Media, Karloz.M released the work of Notime (Converter side project) as well as his own side projects. Collaborations with Canada’s Sub.Session Media saw the release of the compilation “Re:Sound”. Most recently a collaboration with Crunch Pod records resulted in the debut release of Canadian artist urusai.


In the past 5 years, Manufactura has performed close to 300 shows across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. With such notable bands as Converter, Sonar, Haujobb, Hocico, Combichrist, Terrorfakt, Sister Machine Gun, Glis, Imperative Reaction, Assemblage 23, Babyland, Synapscape, SMP and many, many more.


After several special limited releases and the first 2 albums now out of print, 2005 marks the release of “Presence: into the here and the now” as the 3rd album by Manufactura. It is the continuation of a journey that began five years earlier with “Regression”, and was continued through with “Precognitive Dissonance”. However the path through insanity and madness has reached a major fork in the road, and rather then choosing one road over the other, Manufactura instead chose to just destroy all of the roads and rebuild a new path of self destruction, hatred, madness and pain.


On October 31st 2006 the now infamous, influential and unpredictable project known as Manufactura released his 4th album “we’re set silently on fire”. With the success of his prior trilogy styled albums, Manufactura’s Karloz .M paved a way in blending sounds, and genres not often heard in what is known today as industrial music. To this day many DJ’s, clubs and fans have trouble classifying or labeling Manufactura to any one category. Nevertheless Manufactura has conquered many dance floors and fans through out the world. With the new album, “We’re set silently on fire” he gives us even more new sounds of heavy, hard and emotional work to devour. The Album Features 14 tracks of hatred, violence, loss, betrayal, melancholy and pure unadulterated madness. Including a rendition of a song made famous by Bjork. Forget what you’ve heard before and be prepared to be set on fire.

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