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Growing up on a diet of punk, grunge, and industrial, Moe Espinoza originally cut his teeth playing in local L.A. hardcore bands before attending his first rave in 1995, which changed his perspective on music. Buying himself a drum machine and starting work at a recording studio in Hollywood, he focused his songwriting on dance music, utilizing the studio's array of classic synths and Roland drum machines. After a handful of releases on various labels, Espinoza helped form the Droid Behavior collective -- alongside
Vangelis and Vidal Vargas (aka Raíz) -- in 2001 to kickstart the techno scene in L.A. Using the name
Drumcell, Espinoza delivered his debut release, the Genetix EP, for the collective's label Droid Recordings in 2003. Over the next few years, DJ'ing, production work, and building the Droid collective brand continued apace, with the label delivering not only releases by
Drumcell, but by artists such as Audio Injection, Dustin Zahn, and Acid Circus.
2009 saw the release of the Cell Injection EP -- a collaborative piece between
Drumcell and Audio Injection -- which got heavy rotation in DJ sets by the likes of
Speedy J and
Chris Liebing. After striking up a friendship with
Liebing, Espinoza delivered his first release for
Liebing's CLR in 2012, the collaborative
Split Structure EP with
Brian Sanhaji. The following year, Espinoza's debut album, Sleep Complex (as
Drumcell) was also issued by the label, alongside the single Disturbance. Over the next few years, he delivered a handful of releases for the label, including Departing Comfort, before focusing on his more experimental, ambient project Hypoxy1a and label Bl_k Noise. The Flux EP -- which featured
Luis Flores -- appeared in 2016, followed a year later by the various-artists release Negative 2_Part 1. ~ Rich Wilson