Alex Matheu is an electronic producer, and studio engineer. He is the founder of electronic projects; Negative Format, Parallel Project, Distraub, and Lexsine. Alex has been writing electronic music professionally since 1996, and is an owner and operator of Sector 9 Studios (electronic record label).

Nilaihah Records. An emergence from the electro underground that has been building its basis for many years...

Ever since late 1999/early 2000, Nilaihah Records has been releasing some of the top electronic music, in the vein of Electronic Dance, Industrial, EBM, Synth-Pop, Darkwave, Trip Hop, and Electronica. We strive to release some of the most thought-provoking electronic music out there that will keep you moving and open your mind.

We emerged to believe in those who believe in themselves. A passion for music and a desire to be heard. We strive to create, produce, and market the most emotional forms of expression with talented, original electronic bands. Many brilliant artists go unheard and we want to provide them a voice. So enter the world of Nilaihah Records and listen to Electronic music at its best.

nilaihah - [definition - the poetics of the fallen]


Home of: 00tz 00tz, Ad Inferna, The Azoic, Backlash, Blind Faith and Envy, Bow Ever Down, Conetik, Dissonance, Distorted Reality, END: the DJ, Endanger, Fiction 8, Frozen Plasma, GASR, Ghost & Writer (Frank Spinath/Seabound side project), Interface, Invisible Ballet, Lestat, Liquid Divine, Muscle and Hate (Nitzer Ebb tribute), NamNamBulu, Null Device, Sensuous Enemy, Silent Auction, Sonik Foundry, Unheilig, Xiescive, XMH, XP8 and Zoica.

Take tribal drums, mix with pounding analogue synths and a killer club sound and what do you get? Welcome to iVardensphere. 

The new album, APOK, finds iVardensphere exploring different aspects of their sound, from dance floor stomping powernoise to more exotic flavors of tribal drumming blended with elements of trip-hop and a club-pleasing analog synth bumping EBM sound. APOK, iVardensphere's first release on Metropolis Records, also takes iVardensphere's passion for collaborations to a whole new level, bringing in guest artists including I:Scintilla, Caustic, God Module, and This Morn' Omina as well as featuring remixes by SKOLD, ESA, releveleR and Pull Out Kings.

The story of iVardensphere's rise begins a few years ago in Edmonton, Canada, where Scott Fox DJs the notorious club nights SICK and Das OOntz. Fox took his expertise in filling the dance floor and applied it to his passion for synths and industrial dance music to create a fresh take on the genre to form iVardensphere. Upon being heard for the first time by Vancouver-based label Synthetic Sounds, iVardensphere was immediately signed and the debut album Scatterface was released in July 2009, mastered by Sebastian Komor [Icon of Coil]. 

Soon after the completion of Scatterface, Scott enlisted the talents of Chris Lacroix [aka Siborg from Virtual Terrorist] to help bring the project from the studio to the stage, where the band shines. Ever since, iVardensphere has been constantly active live, having performed with acts ranging from Apoptygma Berzerk to Iszoloscope to 16Volt and Chemlab to Front Line Assembly at such places as Das Bunker in LA and the Kinetik Festival in Montreal. Buoyed by touring and word of mouth from an ever-growing fan base, iVardensphere has steadily swept across the industrial dance club scene in North America.

At the end of 2009, Scatterface made its way across the Atlantic on one of Europe’s leading darkrock and industrial labels, Danse Macabre Records, as Fox prepared iVardensphere's second release, Remixes Vol. 1, featuring remixes from Komor Kommando, Memmaker, Left Spine Down and others. Initially a digital-only release, fans demand CDs, and so Remixes vol. 1 came out in February 2010 on Synthetic Sounds. This release also marked iVardensphere's first introduction to the college radio charts across Canada. 

The summer of 2010 saw the band hit a wide range of cities and venues all across the USA and Canada with Iszoloscope and ad*ver*sary, gaining loads of new fans. Word of their powerful live shows continued to spread and they were asked to open Combichrist's North American tour in the fall of 2010, just in time for a new album to hit.

iVardensphere’s much anticipated second studio album, Bloodwater, came out in November of 2010, showcasing Fox's growing interest in using tribal drumming and other more organic sounds alongside electronics and samplers. Spurned on by club play and word of mouth from the band’s performances on Monsters on Tour with Combichrist, Bloodwater smouldered up the Canadian college radio electronic charts, eventually spending three months on !earshot’s national electronic charts in early 2011 and nine weeks on ChartAttack’s electronic charts. It also received great reviews, including in Outburn Magazine and Rue Morgue. 

The fall 2010 tour with Combichrist went so well that iVardensphere was asked to come out on tour with Combichrist again in the spring of 2011.

Wherever they roam, iVardensphere are always eager to collaborate with other artists, including working with Booming Tree Taiko on their first tour with Combichrist and trading remixes with the likes of Rotersand. Past collaborations with Iszoloscope went so well that iVardensphere recently announced that Iszoloscope's Yann Faussurier became a full-fledged member of iVardensphere at the end of 2010, and Fox, Faussurier and Lacroix wasted no time in starting work on APOK alongside their collaborators. iVardensphere recently grew again as Iszoloscope and Memmaker's Frédéric Scarfone also joined the fold as an official member after previously exchanging remixes with iVardensphere as Katastroslavia and co-writing on APOK.

The band's continuing growth and solid sounds caught the interest of industrial/electro powerhouse label Metropolis Records, who have now welcomed iVardensphere into the fold to help foster further expansion.

Audio Engineer.
Live Sound Engineer.
Mixing Engineer.

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