Negative Format


Negative Format is the one-man EBM/trance band of Alex Matheu, started in 1996. For live performances, the band includes Rashree and Brian Matson.
In 2004, Alex created The Parallel Project, an album combining his music with the vocals of other industrial artists, including Salva Maine, Sandrine Gouriou, Ned Kirby, Tom Shear, Rashree Matson, Daniel Myer, Jennifer Parkin, Clint Carney, Darrin Huss, Courtney Bangert, Victoria Lloyd, Mark Jackson, Kristy Venrick, and G. Wygonik. In 2000, he released a song on Inception Records compilation 'Counterbalance Vol. 1' as Parallel titled Parallax featuring Ben Schingel and Daniel Paradise, this song was a precursor to The Parallel Project.
Since 2008 he also creates IDM under the moniker Distraub

Discography

Pathologic Syndrome

  1. Syndrome
  2. Moral Void
  3. Prey For The Dead
  4. Afterlife
  5. Base Rate Area
  6. Sandstone Banquet
  7. Phixation
  8. Conformance Test
  9. White Walls Turn Red
  10. Embedded Thought Process
  11. Constant Flood
  12. The Ritual Of The Machine
  13. Barriers Rise
  14. Last Response

    Result of a New Culture

  15. Deadlock
  16. Subtle Infestation
  17. Synthetic Relay
  18. Frozen
  19. Our Mechanix
  20. Liquid Transmission
  21. Proximity Reconstruction
  22. TimeFX
  23. Sector9
  24. Embracing Subversion
  25. Vile Extremes
  26. Liquid Transmission
  27. Deadlock

    Distant Pulses

  28. solar wind
  29. asking for the future
  30. nebula3: remote philosophy
  31. distant pulses
  32. stargazer
  33. nebula6: the outer rim
  34. warp
  35. n.e.a.r.
  36. nebula9: gamma ray burst
  37. distant pulses

    Static

  38. static
  39. downfall
  40. static
  41. gateway
  42. static
  43. sense
  44. n.e.a.r.
  45. static

    UTurn - An Exploration In Trance

with Massiv in Mensch

[Cipher Method]

  1. cipher
  2. automate
  3. transfer
  4. schema
  5. algorythm
  6. senseless
  7. vertex
  8. static
  9. encryption
  10. downfall
  11. packet filter

    Moving Past The Boundaries

  12. phase in
  13. translucent
  14. echo chamber
  15. sustain
  16. particle shift
  17. centralized
  18. momentum
  19. focus
  20. spectral analysis
  21. prototype
  22. heterodox
  23. probe v2.4
  24. out of phase

    Gradients

  25. Solid State
  26. Hues Of Grey
  27. Pathogen
  28. Structures And Shadows
  29. Foundations
  30. Origins
  31. Photon Ring
  32. Slate
  33. Color Depth
  34. Gradient Coils
  35. Reaction
  36. Granite

    Compilations