The CD compilation and its 30-track download companion does not only feature very fresh music released by Alfa Matrix, they also hold exclusive and previously unreleased material by REICHSFEIND, MONDTRÄUME (new band line-up!), AIBOFORCEN, METROLAND, SYNAPSYCHE, ACYLUM, AVARICE IN AUDIO, FIRST AID 4 SOULS, COSMIC ARMCHAIR, SUICIDAL ROMANCE, NEIKKA RPM, etc. and reveals 2 exciting new additions to the Alfa Matrix family being the much promising female fronted powerful industrial metal act THE TRUE UNION and the enigmatic HELLE9 that is nothing but the new dark trap industrial project of our beloved ALIEN VAMPIRES demons.

Cherry on the cake, the bonus download release available via Bandcamp also includes additional exclusive interviews (in PDF format) conducted by Gothic magazine with numerous other bands than those featured inside the print magazine…

CD

1. Aesthetische Feat. Lis Van Den Akker – Back To Life (Radio Version)
2. Reichsfeind – This (Exclusive Mix)
3. Mondträume – Something
4. Aiboforcen – Cycle Of Life (Short Edit)
5. Cubic – Q (Bong 13 Mix)
6. Metroland – 4.1
7. Implant – The King And The Rebel (Distributed Denial Of Service Rmx)
8. Adkey – Alles Was Ich Will (Single Mix)
9. Synapsyche – Silvertongue (Graveless Version)
10. Imjudas – People Of The Blame
11. The True Union – Purousthai
12. Helle9 – Omen
13. Avarice In Audio – Do Unto Others
14. Siva Six – Fight The Machine
15. Acylum – Tears Of Blood (Short Cut)
16. First Aid 4 Souls – I Am The Night
17. Circumpolar – Waiting In The Rain
18. Digital Factor – What
19. Psyaviah Feat. Mari Kattman – Can We Make It Rhyme (Radio Edit)

BONUS DOWNLOAD

1. Lights A.M – Run Away
2. Cosmic Armchair – Bleed
3. Suicidal Romance – Love Promise (Elektrostaub Remix)
4. Entrzelle – Let Me Be A Memory
5. Elektrostaub – Save Me (Feat. René Anke)
6. The Psychic Force – Lockdown Lovers
7. Kant Kino – Horror Tv
8. Alien Vampires – World In Denial
9. Venal Flesh – Adytum I
10. Diffuzion – Ain’t Gonna Fuck With My Brain
11. Komor Kommando – Music Is My Religion
12. Matthew Creed – Walking In Circles (Video Edit)
13. Neikka Rpm – Some Kind Of Hell
14. Studio-X – New Blood
15. Circuito Cerrado – Zeit
16. Aengeldust- Fremdling
17. Dunkelwerk – Waffengang
18. Pouppee Fabrikk – Burn Forever
19. Elm – Smother Box (Mother Of Aggression Mix)
20. Die Robo Sapiens – Fan Fan Fanatisch (Kant Kino Rip Gd Mix)
21. Plastic Noise Experience – End Of The Road
22. Armageddon Dildos – Destruction (Darkroom Mix)
23. Freakangel – The Last White Dance (X Anniversary Edit)
24. Lovelorn Dolls – Happy Endings (Elyose Heavy Mix)
25. Helalyn Flowers – Skyland
26. Neuroactive – In Rust We Trust (Single Mix)
27. Llumen -The Path That Leads Me Home
28. 808 Dot Pop – Looking For The Sun
29. Rector Scanner – Epsilon Tucanae (Single Mix)
30. Technoir – Da Hast Du Deinen Traum (Minimal Radical Mix)

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This Christmas 2021, many amongst our alternative music scene community will gather in theaters across the globe to enjoy the unexpected 4th installment of the cult science fiction action film “The Matrix Resurrections”… In the same moment, Belgian underground dark electronic music label Alfa Matrix is closing its 20th year of existence with this new conceptual anniversary release “matriXX”. A collection of some 60 songs downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (FREE or pay as you wish).

Back in 2001, three Belgian boys had dreams… and well, they decided that they would not just be, “dreams”! They decided to share these dreams with artists and with YOU. And they took that right pill that made them larger year after year, release after release. A new concept was born.

After all these 20 years, we’re bringing you back where it all started. Back to the Matrix!

The three label owners (Benoît, Bernard & Séba) took the challenge to summarize these 20 years of sonic extravaganza by each selecting only 20 songs which meant something to them in their label’s history. “We quickly realized how much we had underestimated this challenge of shrinking a repertoire of over 12.000 songs to 60 tracks in total especially considering that we have actually worked with more than 60 different bands and projects through the years… to say the least, this was an incredible and yet fulfilling task to achieve!”, says label & artists manager Séba Dolimont. [full texts & insights written by the three label protagonists themselves can be found in the attached extended booklet of this release via the label’s Bandcamp page]

The time has come for us to plunge you again in this repeating loop, that will bring you sonic memories and déjà vu while still remaining today so exciting and entertaining, also reminding you how easily it is to forget how much noise the Alfa Matrix has been pumping into your head over the last XX years.

This is the moment for us to show you once more what is real and all we have achieved thanks to our creative artists and to your precious support. The only thing that matters for us is still here, our dark scene and its uncountable talents and we know why we’re still fighting, and we’ll never give up.

We’re ready to feed your head. “Are you ready to fly”?
And never forget: this matrIXX seleXXion is only one version of the reality. Create your own on Spotify and share it with us!

Thanks for having believed in us since day one. Share your belief with friends. We’re up for the next challenge!

Since 2001, Alfa Matrix has been offering you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, post punk, techno house: you get it all!

Compiled in Winter 2021 by Seba Dolimont, Benoit Blanchart and Bernard Van Isacker.

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Alfa Matrix will invest all donations in new bands. Feel free to support us!

Here’s what Seba Dolimont from Alfa Matrix has to say about it: “The music market has shifted a lot over the years and in many ways losing its solid footing. CDs sales are collapsing entirely and the shift from downloads to streaming has not yet shown a revenue that is replacing what has been lost. (…) This evolution has created an environment where many labels have almost stopped playing their key-role of talent scouting, no longer daring to invest in new talents who deserve to be heard by you! Alfa Matrix is one of the very few record companies in this scene who try to keep the right balance between releasing renowned artists and supporting younger bands who still need to catch the attention and reach your ears.”

The compilation holds the work by 64 label bands who joined hands to deliver you 64 songs representing the label’s most recent singles and albums while giving a preview of some promising forthcoming 2021 productions .

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The challenge for artists and labels in such a unique indie music scene has become more than tough and no one is immune to this difficult situation. Too many labels have already ceased activities while artists simply gave up, and we fear that this trend will continue. This evolution has created an environment where many labels have almost stopped playing their key-role of talent scouting, no longer daring to invest in new talents who deserve to be heard by you! Alfa Matrix is one of the very few record companies on our dark underground scene to keep struggling with the economics to manage keeping the right balance between releasing renowned artists and supporting younger bands who still need to catch the attention and reach your ears…

By supporting us and our artists today, your contribution goes to the future of our endangered music scene and Alfa Matrix makes the guarantee to you that it will keep fighting on, and injecting more freshness, and new blood into the alternative electro scene.

This new FREE (or pay as you wish) 9th edition of the now classic “Matrix Downloaded” digital compilation is another perfect eclectic alternative music soundtrack that reflects the label’s music repertoire and impressive artist roster in the full-force of its diversity.

Some 61 label bands join hands to share love and offer you these precious sonic moments, a sincere outreach to tell you how grateful we all are to have such a staunch fanbase like you in our precious underground scene.

The ultimate collection of scene famous and established artists featured next to rising new talents and stunning new discoveries from the label’s growing army of artists… Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!

Again this new selection of some 61 songs nicely represents the label’s most recent singles and albums while giving a preview of some promising forthcoming 2020 productions including announced new releases by POUPPEE FABRIKK, NEUROACTIVE, ALIEN VAMPIRES, HELALYN FLOWERS, DIE ROBO SAPIENS, IMJUDAS, 808 DOT POP, ACYLUM, ARMAGEDDON DILDOS, PSY’AVIAH, AVARICE IN AUDIO, SIVA SIX, NEIKKA RPM, AESTHETISCHE, KANT KINO, KOMOR KOMMANDO, AD:KEY, H.O.W., CIRCUMPOLAR, SYNAPSYCHE, LLUMEN, ENTRZELLE, LIGHTS A.M, REACTOR7X, FIRST AID 4 SOULS, etc.

Matrix Downloaded 009 is once again downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 8 previous editions in case you were trapped in another universe over the last few years and did not catch these yet!!).

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Again a prefect pre-X-Mas present for all of us with a selection of 55 songs nicely representing the label’s most recent singles and albums while giving a preview of some promising forthcoming 2019 productions including announced new releases by HELALYN FLOWERS, SYNAPSYCHE, AVARICE IN AUDIO, H.O.W., LLUMEN, MENTAL EXILE, SD-KRTR, DIFFUZION, REACTOR7X, AESTHETISCHE, ARMAGEDDON DILDOS, DIE ROBO SAPIENS, JUNKSISTA, IMJUDAS, ALIEN VAMPIRES, MONDTRÄUME, AIBOFORCEN, DUNKELWERK, KOMOR KOMMANDO, NEIKKA RPM, ACYLUM, etc.

A 200 minute-plus compilation that reflects the label’s music repertoire and impressive artist roster in the full-force of its diversity also reminding us that ALFA MATRIX is one of the very few indie electro labels who still dare to scout new talents and to inject new blood into the scene while others would definitely choose to sleep on their laurels while focusing on their sure values of established bands.

The ultimate collection of scene famous and established artists featured next to rising new talents and stunning new discoveries from the label’s impressive army of artists… Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering to you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!

This FREE (or pay as you wish) compilation is once again downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 7 previous editions in case you were trapped in another universe for the last few years and did not catch these yet!!).

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Again a prefect pre-X-Mas present for all of us with a selection of 46 songs nicely representing the label’s most recent singles and albums while giving a preview of some promising forthcoming 2018 productions including announced new releases by HELALYN FLOWERS, ARMAGEDDON DILDOS, AIBOFORCEN, LOVELORN DOLLS, METROLAND, PSY’AVIAH, JUNKSISTA, ELEKTROKLÄNGE, MONDTRÄUME, DUNKELWERK, SCHWARZBLUT, AVARICE IN AUDIO, KOMOR KOMMANDO, SIVA SIX, MILDREDA, ALIEN VAMPIRES, AD:KEY, IMJUDAS, AESTHETISCHE as well as from the label’s recent recruits the much promising future pop French act CRYTEK.

A 200 minute-plus compilation that reflects the label’s music repertoire and impressive artist roster in the full-force of its diversity also reminding us that ALFA MATRIX is one of the very few indie electro labels who still dare to scout new talents and to inject new blood into the scene while others would definitely choose to sleep on their laurels while focusing on their sure values of established bands.

The ultimate collection of scene famous and established artists featured next to rising new talents and stunning new discoveries from the label’s impressive army of artists… Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering to you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!

This FREE (or pay as you wish) compilation is once again downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 6 previous editions in case you were trapped in another universe for the last few years and did not catch these yet!!).

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Again a prefect pre-X-Mas present for all of us with a selection of 45 songs nicely representing the label’s most recent singles and albums while giving a preview of some promising forthcoming 2017 productions including new releases by ALIEN VAMPIRES, POUPPEE FABRIKK, METROLAND, THE PSYCHIC FORCE, KANT KINO, MONDTRÄUME, NEIKKA RPM, AIBOFORCEN, SIN.SIN, ELEKTROKLÄNGE, LLUMEN, DIFFUZION, COSMIC ARMCHAIR, etc. as well as from the label’s recent recruits the unique German EBM duo AD:KEY and IMJUDAS (the new synthwave pop-rock project of HELALYN FLOWERS’ Maxx).

A 200 minute-plus compilation that reflects the label’s music repertoire and impressive artist roster in the full-force of its diversity also reminding us that ALFA MATRIX is one of the very few indie electro labels who still dare to scout new talents and to inject new blood into the scene while others would definitely choose to sleep on their laurels while focusing on their sure values of established bands.

Absolutely the perfect way for ALFA MATRIX to close their 15th year of existence – some 15 years of non-stop heavy sonic propaganda on the underground electronic music front with their impressive army of artists! The ultimate collection of scene famous and established artists featured next to rising new talents and stunning new discoveries… Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering to you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!

This FREE (or pay as you wish) compilation is once again downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 5 previous editions in case you were trapped in another universe for the last few years and did not catch these yet!!).

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This FREE (or pay as you wish) compilation is downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 4 previous editions in case you were trapped in another universe for the last few years and did not catch these yet!!).

Again a nice pre-X-Mas present for all of us with some 61 songs that reflect the ALFA MATRIX music repertoire in the full-force of its diversity.

While bands like FRONT 242, SUICIDAL ROMANCE, VENAL FLESH, PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE, DIFFUZION, THE PSYCHIC FORCE or yet DUNKELWERK all surprise us by showcasing previously unreleased mixes or new songs, the Belgian label also seizes here the opportunity to reveal the recent additions to the ALFA MATRIX family members with the melodic retro e-pop of ELEKTROKLANGE, the new hardcore and uncompromising EBM one-man army of ELM, the cult Swedish body pop act RESTRICTED AREA and the sexy and sensual break pop of SIN.SIN.

The ultimate collection of scene famous and established artists featured next to rising new talents and stunning new discoveries… Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering to you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!

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This FREE (or pay as you wish) compilation is once again downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 3 previous editions in case that you were lost in cyberspace for the last few years and did not grab these yet!!).

Again a nice present for all of us with some 57 songs that reflect the ALFA MATRIX music repertoire in the full-force of its diversity.

Just like the recent additions to the ALFA MATRIX family members (VENAL FLESH, THE PSYCHIC FORCE, LLUMEN, ENTRZELLE, DREAM RECALL…), many other label bands also seized the opportunity of this compilation to showcase brand new songs or previously unreleased mixes including BRUDERSCHAFT, ZOMBIE GIRL, HELALYN FLOWERS, KOMOR KOMMANDO, ACYLUM, I:SCINTILLA, AIBOFORCEN, NÖVÖ, STUDIO-X vs. SIMON CARTER, XMH, SIVA SIX, NEIKKA RPM, AENGELDUST, SCHWARZBLUT, PSY’AVIAH, JUNKSISTA, TECHNOIR, STUDIO-X, DIFFUZION, KANT KINO, PNE, SEBASTIAN KOMOR, …

Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering to you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!

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2 years after the release of the first “Matrix Downloaded” compilation, Belgium’s ALFA MATRIX label joins hands again with Santa Claus and offers to all alternative music lovers this new label compilation FOR FREE (downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s Bandcamp page).

A nice and surprising end-of-year present for all of us with some 47 songs that reflect the ALFA MATRIX music repertoire in the full-force of its diversity.

Just like the new ALFA MATRIX family members who are revealed here for the first time: NÖVÖ, XMH, MONDTRÄUME and STUDIO-X vs. SIMON CARTER, several other label bands also seized the opportunity of this compilation to showcase new unreleased songs including KOMOR KOMMANDO, ARMAGREDDON DILDOS, KRYSTAL SYSTEM, AIBOFORCEN, STAR INDUSTRY, RAZORFADE, etc

Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering to you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, electronic, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave: you get it all!

This compilation is only available as a download via Bandcamp (see player below).

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