Philadelphia's ElektroWorx Releases First Album

Philadelphia's Next Big Thing: ElektroWorx

Janine Logue
With a mix of stunning psychedelic visuals, an amazingly well produced and original electronic sound, and velvety seductive vocals setting them apart, the ElektroWorx crew has been blowing away the Philadelphia club scene.

With a recent performance by ElektroWorx at the Philadelphia Independent Film Festival's A Clockwork Orange after party, the band is expanding from the mainly underground Philadelphia club scene, in to more main stream exposure in the film and sound track industries.

With a sound that has been compared to Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, and even Depeche Mode, ElektroWorx fuses a psychedelic atmosphere and dark hard trance anthems with a rock/metal influence.

The group has been involved in local Philadelphia parties with such Philadelphia club scene celebrities as MC High IQ and DJ Mighty Mike Saga. They have also been affiliated with the Showcase Underground, Philadelphia's multimedia production and promotion force for underground music, and have done tracks for Philadelphia's own Peek-a-boo Review.

ElektroWorx has gained fans world wide with the help of internet exposure through their own website (www.ElektroWorx.com) and others such as www.MySpace.com/ElektroWorx, www.Tribe.net (where ElektroWorx won the title of Philly's Best Unsigned Band), and www.233project.net (which is a project of members Marz233, Blix, and Ocularum).

With such an eclectic group, the influences and experience that each member brings to the table has helped ElektroWorx maintain their unique sound.

Band members include, Belgium native and signer, Gaetan, who has done sound production work for various well-known live bands and spent a 3 year stint touring England; on keyboards, synths, and samples, Marz233 and Blix, who have (in conjunction with 233project.net) performed remixes for such names as Rigger and AC Slater; answering an ad for "undead stars", keyboard & guitar player Beck (aka "The Badger") was brought in to the ElektroWorx mix, having attended West Virginia University, he is the only classically trained member of the band; and lastly in charge of visual strategies, Ocularum, who's art work has been seen at various venues, including the Philadelphia High Wire Art Gallery, and who's visual projections have helped set the ElektroWorx live shows apart.

ElektroWorx is set to release their first album in the late Spring of 2005.

Published by Janine Logue

Janine Logue is a full-time editor for a weekly newspaper in New Jersey. For the past several years Janine has worked as a reporter and editor in the Philadelphia, PA area. She has her degree in journalism...  View profile

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