Slave To Society

ESOTERIC NOISE! DISTORTION! BREAKS! HARDCORE! This is Slave To Society, the heavyweight solo alias of Andrew Bowen AKA Andro from AnD.After a decade of redefining techno dance floors with his partner DIMI as AnD, Andrew Bowen has returned to his experimental, hardware-focused roots as Slave To Society. Launched in October 2019 with an eponymous limited edition white label release for BANK Records NYC in Oct 2019, Bowen has gone on to use murky new world order politics and societal disorder as inspiration for his jam-based productions, which so far have been released on underground techno labels like Ohm Resistance and revered hardcore institutions like Mokum.Heavy distortion and abrasive sounds have been with Bowen since first locking on to hardcore as a teenager. These elements were present in his previous work as AnD and in collaboration with Repitch artists D. Carbone, Shapednoise and Ascion as D.A.S. D.A., but now they are coming to the fore with Slave To Society, which references jungle, breakcore, hardcore, noise, techno and industrial hip hop – without being beholden to any one genre or tempo.Slave To Society live shows and DJ sets will begin at 60BPM and end up well over 200BPM! DJ sets are always multilayered and sonically rich excursions across four decks, with livesets utilising guitar pedals, modular synths, controllers and lots of feedback to give it that Slave To Society sound. As Slave To Society, Bowen has performed killer shows at PRSPCT XL and Unpolished in the Netherlands and a secret Brooklyn warehouse event with OUTLAW NYC.In June 2022, BANK Records NYC released Bowen's debut album under the moniker, an 8-track limited edition record called Terror Corporation. With follow up releases due out on PRSPCT and Murder Channel, Bowen's "go hard or go home" mantra has finally found its audience.