Psykosonik

Their first album, Psykosonik, was a hard-hitting techno album with cyberpunk-esque lyrics.

Their follow-up album, Unlearn, had a completely different sound. The DJ/techno stylings, aggressive vocals, and sampled guitar riffs were replaced by lush electronic sound scapes and mellow vocals. About half the tracks were instrumentals. The lyrics continued to focus on cyberpunk and extropian themes: Virtual Reality, AI, cybernetics, life extension, and science.

The band’s third album, Spiritual Machine, was completed by 1997 but was never released by the band’s label, Wax Trax! Records, who were by this time owned by TVT Records. The experience led to the subsequent disbanding of Psykosonik.

Daniel Lenz went on to produce a single album under the band name Hednoize with a new vocalist, Brent Daniels (aka Free). The album saw a bit of a departure for Lenz in regards to the sound and feel of Unlearn. Opting for a more industrial sound, the album was a hard hitting debut. Unfortunately, label support was minimal, involving mainly a website and a handful of LA club shows.

Being at this point tired of record labels, in 2001 Daniel Lenz launched a short lived project called PsykoHed on MP3.com. He released his debut solo album, Stuck in a Dream, in 2008, featuring guest appearances by Brent Daniels of Hednoize and Paul Sebastien of Psykosonik. Besides producing music for various film and TV soundtracks, he is reportedly currently working on new Hednoize material with Daniels.

Paul Sebastien went on to found Basic Pleasure Model, teaming with Wideband Network founder Caesar Filori. Michael Larson went on to become the audio director for Epic Games and produced the soundtracks for the Gears of War series.