Sydney based musician Alex J. has been involved with avant-garde/electronic music since his 1995 cassette recordings consisting of a couple ghetto blasters, sauce pans, triangle, and whatever he could find around the house. The next few years brought new musical collaborators and new gear into the mix, giving rise to a period of rhythmic, sample-based compositions under the pseudonym Valley of Death. From 2001 to 2003 Alex teamed up with Garry Bradbury (Winner/Sweden/exSize/Severed Heads) and the duo paired dark textures with a fatter, bass-drum driven sound before stunning audiences at 2002’s Big Day Out festival with their performance of punchy, atmospheric electronics under the name Velocity of Detonation. Though the project reached a point of notoriety, the partnership was put on hold for a variety of professional and personal commitments.
In 2003, Alex began work on The Process Void with the idea to expand in a more synthetic direction. The Process Void's music involves melodic synth and basslines fused with hard-edged guitars, dense atmospheres and punk vocals. Alex credits groups such as Skinny Puppy, DAF, Frontline Assembly, Killing Joke, Wire, Severed Heads, Nitzer Ebb, Public Image Ltd and Big Black as being heavy influences on the music of The Process Void. The Process Void performed their debut live show at Disorientation, Le Franchis, Sydney in September 2004 in the same bill as Inge Olmheim & Anthony Guerra and Toecutter. The Process Void's debut release is the album 'Arcane Matter' released in August 2005 on own label 'Green Mutant Recordings'. Featuring the Agro Industrial punk rock ridden 'Seconds', the quirky mechanical 'Comfort Zone' and the haunting instrumental 'Demoralizer', Arcane Matter is a compelling, provocative and uncompromising masterpiece that brings a new alternative for the 21st century.
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