About — SID-ALEX

SID-ALEX is the work of two childhood friends from Stockholm, Sweden.

All tracks written, performed, produced, mixed, and mastered by SID. The catalog spans polished Masters built for repeat listening and rougher Experimental drops. Subscribe to catch the latest releases the moment they land.

Studio

Split between Stockholm and Manhattan Beach, LA, our twin-hub setup fuses vintage with modern electronics.

• Mics: Neumann U 87, Shure SM7dB + Preamp FetHead Germanium.
• Electronic: Yamaha DX7 (1983), Prophet-5 (1978), Moog Subsequent 37, Akai MPC Live II / One+, and the Teenage Engineering (OP-1, OP-XY, EP-133), and Wandel 2 drum machine.
• Instruments: Gibson Les Paul Standard, Fender American Professional II Telecaster.
• DAW: Logic Pro + custom plugins built in-house by SID and ALEX.
• Recording & live mixing: Roland VR-6HD.

SID is self-taught via video game music tools like Music 2000 and StepMania (a Dance Dance Revolution mod).

Back story

Back in the late '90s, Sid + Alex met in a Stockholm scrapyard looking for parts to build better PCs—and maybe make a few bucks.

Our first startup involved a truckload of broken LED panels and an engineering plan so questionable it ended with an apartment burning to the ground.

After accidentally proving electricity is real, we retired from hardware and disappeared into the internet instead.

We spent the early 2000s running pirate Winamp radio stations, making music for the QuakeNet underground, soundtracking frag movies, and causing trouble before "going viral" was a thing.

Everything since has basically been a continuation of that.