Allied Mastercomputer is the audio project of Alex Minott, who has been experimenting with drum machines, effects devices, samplers, turntables and so forth since at least 1990. Using borrowed 4-tracks and stomp boxes, Alex shocked and appalled friends, relations and passers-by with blaring screechy noises, clattering and sludgy, rumbling beats. Since moving to Brooklyn in 1999, he has been slowly amassing a small arsenal of instruments for improved blaring, clattering and rumbling. Alex also plays drums and keys in the band Bathysphere, and likes to play records - occasionally for other people. Alex should theoretically be an artist, and is the manager of The Evolution Store.