Terence Fixmer

Born in Lille in 1972 and trained in Tourcoing, in a Nord region shaped by the proximity of Belgian scenes, Terence Fixmer began developing an approach to electronic music in the 1990s informed by EBM, new wave, electro and techno. After early projects and aliases, he released his first records in the mid-1990s and founded the Planète Rouge label in 1998. The turning point came with “Electrostatic” in 1999, a track that placed him in a lineage where the dry energy of EBM meets a frontal, mechanical techno. Fixmer then refined this aesthetic across albums such as Muscle Machine (2001), Silence Control (2006), Fiction Fiction (2009), Comedy of Menace (2010), Depth Charged (2015) and Through the Cortex (2018), on labels including International Deejay Gigolo, CLR, Electric Deluxe, Novamute and Ostgut Ton. At the same time he pursued the Fixmer/McCarthy project with Douglas McCarthy of Nitzer Ebb, documented notably by Between the Devil (2004) and Into the Night (2008), where the tension between post‑industrial vocals and a techno pulse becomes central. A regular live presence in clubs and European festivals, he has also produced remixes for Sven Väth, Nitzer Ebb and Depeche Mode, while steering his sound toward a more hypnotic, dark and minimalist techno.