Machine Girl

Machine Girl’s output fuses apocalyptic intensity with euphoric release, detonating footwork, jungle, digital hardcore, and rave into one volatile, purging sound. After appearing in 2014, the debut album WLFGRL spread rapidly across the internet, exposing a new cohort of listeners to breakcore and jungle while shaping the work of countless emerging producers. With the 2017 release …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For the project pivoted toward a punk-rooted approach, and frontman Matt Stephenson joined Kill Alters vocalist Bonnie Baxter to launch the side project Prolaps. Neon White, the duo’s inaugural video-game score, surfaced in 2022, while MG Ultra returned in 2024 to reclaim their raw, vocal-forward punk energy.

Matt Stephenson launched Machine Girl from Long Island in 2012. The project’s first offering was the single “Gravity Girl,” followed by the self-issued 2013 EPs 13th Hour and Electronic Gimp Music; several further recordings then appeared on London’s Dred Collective, among them the full-length WLFGRL. That album’s accompanying remix EPs drew contributions from footwork, jungle, and breakcore artists spanning DJ Earl of Chicago’s Teklife crew to Detroit producer Sinistarr. Orange Milk issued the second album Gemini in 2015, earning widespread praise from online music outlets. Machine Girl logged repeated U.S. tours, frequently accompanied by drummer Sean Kelly. A split cassette with rhythmic-noise artist Five Star Hotel emerged on Visual Disturbances/Emergency Tapes in 2016 during their joint run of shows.

Returning to Orange Milk, the 2017 album …Because I’m Young Arrogant and Hate Everything You Stand For stood as the project’s most vocal-centric and punk-leaning statement to that point. The Ugly Art followed on Kitty on Fire Records in 2018. MG Demo Disc and U-Void Synthesizer both arrived in 2020. Prolaps, the Stephenson–Baxter duo, debuted with Pure Mud, Vol. 7 on Hausu Mountain and then dropped the four-part, 120-minute mix series Ultra Cycle Pts. 1-4 on the opening day of each season throughout 2021. Neon White’s soundtrack reached listeners in two installments during 2022. The three-track EP Super Freq surfaced in April 2024, and Future Classic released the digital-hardcore-oriented full-length MG Ultra the following October.