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Sister Machine Gun

Real Name:
Chris Randall, Miguel Turanzas
Profile:
Since 1990, Chicago industrial rock mainstays Sister Machine Gun have been making ground-breaking records and playing incendiary live shows. In the fourteen years since the band was formed, SMG has released seven full-length albums, three EPs, and countless singles and side projects. SMG songs have been featured in video games and television shows such as Microsoft's Xbox game Amped2, MTV's The Real World, USA Network's La Femme Nikita, TNN and Fox Sports' Re:Evolution of Sports, and several feature films and soundtracks including Scream, Hideaway, and the platinum selling Mortal Kombat.

Sister Machine Gun founder Chris Randall and guitarist Miguel Turanzas are, without a doubt, one of music's hardest working duos. In addition to recording, producing, and touring, they also run their own record label, Positron! Records. Not simply a vehicle for SMG, the label has unleashed 17 releases including albums from Van Christie (Die Warzau), Matt Walker (Filter/Smashing Pumpkins/Cupcakes) and Mike Fisher (Machines of Loving Grace).

SMG's extensive catalog explores just about every genre of modern music, from electro-funk dance to Hendrix-flavored industrial strength rock. Their seventh release, Influence, is an elektro-industrial tour-de-force that recalls the industrial sound of the late eighties and early nineties. Heavy beats, distorted guitars and pounding synth lines drag your favorite sounds kicking and screaming into the future.

Sister Machine Gun's catalog of critically acclaimed albums includes four on the pioneering Wax Trax! label: Sins Of The Flesh (1992), The Torture Technique (1994), Burn (1995), and Metropolis (1997); plus three on their own Positron! Records: [R]evolution (1999) sistermachinegun: 6.0 (2001) and Influence (2003). The liner notes of these albums read like a veritable Who's Who of modern music, and include Reeves Gabrels (David Bowie/Tin Machine), Sascha & En Esch (KMFDM), Charles Levi (Thrill Kill Kult/Pigface), Gino Lenardo (Filter), Scott Churilla (The Rev. Horton Heat), Matt Walker (Filter/Smashing Pumpkins/Cupcakes), and Jim Marcus & Van Christie (Die Warzau).

With fans that treat the band as a religion, and an online presence second to none, Sister Machine Gun are Chicago's Ambassadors of Industrial.
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Discography

Releases:
Not My God (Maxi) (3 versions)   Wax Trax! Records ... 1992
Sins Of The Flesh (Album) (2 versions)   Wax Trax! Records ... 1992
Addiction (CD, Maxi)   TVT Records, Wax Trax! Records 1994
Nothing (CD, Maxi)   Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1994
Sins Of The Flesh (DJ Only) (12")   TVT Records, Wax Trax! Records 1994
The Torture Technique (Album) (2 versions)   Wax Trax! Records ... 1994
Why Not (12", Promo)   Wax Trax! Records 1994
Wired / Lung (Maxi) (2 versions)   Wax Trax! Records ... 1994
Burn (CD, Album)   Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1995
Hole In The Ground (Maxi) (2 versions)   TVT Records ... 1995
Burn (CD, Single, Promo)   Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1996
Burn (CD, Maxi)   Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1996
Metropolis (CD, Album, Promo)   Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1997
Metropolis (Album) (2 versions)   Wax Trax! Records ... 1997
Think (CD, Promo)   TVT Records, Wax Trax! Records 1997
5.1 Smash Your Radio b/w Carbon Copy (CDr, Enh)   MP3.com 1999
[R]evolution (CD, Album)   Positron! Records 1999
Transient 5.2 (CD)   Positron! Records 2000
6.0 (CD, Album)   Positron! Records 2001
6.5: The Desert Companion (CD, Album)   Positron! Records 2001
SMG 6.0 Record Release Show (VCD, NTSC)   Positron! Records 2001
6.6: Machine (CD)   Positron! Records 2002
SMG: Live At The Metro 02.02.02 (DVD, NTSC)   Positron! Records 2002
Influence (CD)   Positron! Records 2003
To Hell With You (CD, Maxi)   Positron! Records 2004
Remixes:
Sonic Adventure Remix (CD) Open Your Heart (Main ... Dee Kicks 1998
...But The Girl's The Same (CD, Album) Dirty Water (Sister Ma... WTII Records 2004
The Bitcrusher Remixes (CD, Album) So Brand New (The Denv... Architecture Records, Flagrant Records 2004
Appears On:
Mortal Kombat - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (CD, Comp) Burn PolyGram Records (Australia) 1995
Tracks Appear On:
Industrial Revolution (2xCD) Addiction CEMA Special Markets, Cleopatra 1993
Afterburn: WaxTrax! Records '94 And Beyond (CD) Nothing (Mutilato Mix) Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1994
Afterburn: WaxTrax! Records '94 And Beyond (CD, Promo) Nothing (Mutilato Mix) Wax Trax! Records, TVT Records 1994
Black Box (A Video Retrospect) Volume 1 (VHS, NTSC) Not My God Wax Trax! Records 1994
Black Box (A Video Retrospect) Volume 2 (VHS, NTSC) Wired Wax Trax! Records 1994
Blackbox - Wax Trax! Records: The First 13 Years. (Comp) (3 versions) Addiction (LP Version) TVT Records ... 1994
CMJ Presents Certain Damage! - Volume 54 (CD, Promo) Wired College Music Journal 1994
Fresh Meat (16 Mouth Watering Cold Cuts) (CD, Smplr) Nothing TVT Records 1994
CMJ New Music Monthly Volume 28 (CD, Comp, Promo) Hole In The Ground College Music Journal 1995
Hideaway Soundtrack (2 versions) Lung (Bronchitis Mix) TVT Soundtrax ... 1995
Mortal Kombat - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Comp) (3 versions) Burn TVT Records ... 1995
TVT 500 (Cass, Maxi) Hole In The ground TVT Records 1995
Future Shock (CD, Comp) Addiction (Speed Freak... Rawkus 1996
Mortal Kombat: More Kombat (Comp) (2 versions) Deeper Down TVT Soundtrax ... 1996
Scream (Music From The Dimension Motion Picture) (Comp) (2 versions) Better Than Me TVT Soundtrax ... 1996
Wax Trax! Records - Summer Swindle 1996 (2 versions) Hole In The Ground (Ma... TVT Records ... 1996
CMJ New Music Volume 50 October 1997 (CD) Think College Music Journal 1997
Covered In Black: An Industrial Tribute To The Kings Of High Voltage AC/DC (2 versions) TNT Cleopatra 1997
Resonance (CD) Bust It Decibel 1997
Back In Black (A Tribute To AC/DC) (CD, Album, Comp) TNT Zebra Records (2) 2000
Dr. Speedlove Presents Vol. 2 (CD) Dead Generation Invisible 2000
Komposi001 (CD) Transparency, Bang Ban... Positron! Records 2002
Komposi002 (CD) I Don't Need, To Hell ... Positron! Records 2003
Komposi003 (CD) Sink Positron! Records 2006
High Voltage - The Ultimate AC/DC Tribute (2xCD, Comp) T.N.T. Redline Records (4) 2008
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