M.Nomized is a recording artist, mail artist, author, collagist and painter who was born Madrange Michel in Paris in 1956. He started his work in 1975 with contemporary music and sound research. In the subsequent 31 years he has appeared on more than 200 solo, collaboration, and compilation CD and tape releases on his own Fraction Studio label, and on numerous European, Japanese, and American labels. M.Nomized has recorded and created music in many different styles, including experimental, electronic, minimalist and repetitive musics, industrial, Indian music, "out", Algerian, noise, cyclic and loop-based music, children's theater, ambient, piano, and spoken word. He was an important figure in the homemade music scene of the 1980s and 1990s, and was well-known for his recordings as a member of No Unauthorized. M.Nomized has collaborated with De Fabriek, Don Campau, Mr. Moto, Carsten Olbrich, Mark Sonnenfeld, Clover Leaf, The Legendary Poptones, Daniele Brusaschetto, Bidoche Musique, Kora, Messy, Mlehst, and many others. M.Nomized's musical influences include: Steve Reich, Brian Eno, Radiohead, Robert Fripp, King Crimson, Magma, Neu, Kraftwerk, Can, Peter Gabriel, Philip Glass, Jon Hassell, Laurie Anderson, David Sylvian, La Monte Young, XTC, Robert Wyatt, The Residents, Massive Attack, Nirvana, Syd Barrett, Gong, The Cure, The Velvet Underground, Heldon, and Terry Riley. Contact and download : http://www.tapegerm.com/jamroom/bands/616/ http://mnomized.podomatic.com/ more