FGFC820

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FGFC820 Live in Orlando: "Martyrdom"

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FGFC820's debut album, Urban Audio Warfare, is now available from NoiTekk (Europe), COP International (North America) and Gravitator! (Russia) Records.
Formed in 2004, FGFC820 is the harsh electro/EBM project from well-known and respected New York City DJs Rexx Arkana and Dräcos. Drawing on joint and separate influences ranging from old school industrial to modern gabber, Arkana and Dräcos combine to create a sound that is at once melodic and relentlessly rhythmic.
In addition to his twenty years of experience as both a DJ and promoter --- having worked with everyone from industrial stalwarts Skinny Puppy and Ministry to newer stars Covenant and VNV Nation --- Rexx Arkana is also the founder of the scene supergroup Bruderschaft. A collaboration of some of the electronic music world's top talents, Bruderschaft drew together, under Arkana's leadership, members of VNV Nation, Covenant, Apoptygma Berzerk and Icon of Coil in a charitable effort to benefit cancer research and treatment. As an artist in his own right, Arkana has also written lyrics and/or recorded vocals for such prominent underground acts as The Retrosic ("New World Order") and davaNtage side project Supreme Court ("Mass Media Murder").
Dräcos spent the last half of the 90s in Boston where he attended Berklee College of Music and graduated with a degree in music production/engineering. While in Boston, Dräcos also played the local club circuit as a DJ as well as performing live with Disciples of Astaroth (an industrial/EBM group he had co-created). In '99, Dräcos relocated to NYC where he began building a bigger name for himself as a DJ for the some of the scenes' most notorious parties. Dräcos also started Subsurface Productions (www.subsurfaceproductions.com) in NYC to encompass all of his various projects, since he had begun DJing and releasing original tracks/remixes under his various aliases.
As DJs, it's not surprising their compositions inspire movement, nor that their messages --- be them political or cultural --- have been enslaved by the beat. FGFC820 create bone-crushing dancefloor anthems, drawing early comparisons to such legends as Front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. Of their debut EP, "The Hanging Garden," ReGen Magazine (www.regenmag.com) recently wrote: "FGFC820 is perhaps the best example of pure, beat-driven EBM to be unleashed onto the scene in years. The rhythms pound their way into your psyche with militaristic grandeur, stomping like a Teutonic march the likes of which have been mostly lost in this new age of synthpop wannabes."
VIRUS! Magazine exclaimed "interesting and innovative --- needless to say something very good could come out of FGFC820," while Sweden's Moving Hands Magazine pronounced the band "forcefully and convincingly an act to keep an eye on in the future."