Nic Endo

Each track is 100 yards of barbed wire dragged through your ears. The first artist to record on Digital Hardcore Recording's Fatale imprint, Nic Endo steps up the noise factor with intense dissonance on par with Merzbow or Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music. Her approach really comes alive in her contributions as the latest member of Atari Teenage Riot, for whom she provides frenetic stridor between splatter breakbeats and anarchist chants. Her solo work may not reinvent Power Electronics, but you'd be hard pressed to find anything more intense.