Alec Michael Eberhardt

Alec Michael Eberhardt (born Novermber 9, 1992), better known as DJ Speedsick, is an American musician, record producer, DJ, and visual artist. 
Best known for his raw, DIY, and stream of consciousness approach to his music productions. that range stylistically from high-BPM techno to extreme noise music, as well as his active presence in the American underground and prolific release output; his music has been featured by media outlets such as Noisey, Bandcamp Daily, and Boomkat https://www.vice.com/en/article/d3m89k/stream-of-the-crop-11-new-albums-for-heavy-rotationhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200226001535/https://daily.bandcamp.com/hidden-gems/dj-speedsick-nothing-lastshttps://boomkat.com/charts/boomkat-end-of-year-charts-2019/972, and distributed on Phovinyl, cassette, and CD internationally.
He is also an active visual artist and graphic designer; having created work for artists such as Brodinski, Candy, Matrixxman, Portrayal of Guilt, Usurp Synapse, Sandwell District http://www.djspeedsick.com/gallery.html ; as well as being the primary artistic director and designer for the clothing company; Spahn Dirge, which was dissolved in 2024. He has also run the labels Snake Eyes & Sevens and Escalationist. 
==Life==
Eberhardt was born in Brookfield, Wisconsin at Elmbrook Memorial Hospital on November 9th, 1992 . His father worked as a commercial printer, and his mother as an IT systems analyst. His maternal grandfather, a former US Army Ranger, co-founded and held the title of Vice President at Quad/Graphics; an international commercial printing giant. He has one sister, eighteen months his junior . 
At age 9, his parents divorced, and his mother moved to Merton, Wisconsin, where he and his sister attended school and spent the majority of their upbringing. He has stated that around this time, he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and began medication . 
He attended Arrowhead High School from 2007-2011. After graduating high school, he relocated to Chicago, Illinois to attend Columbia College Chicago, where he received his BA in Film & Video in 2015. 
In 2017, he relocated to Madison, Wisconsin; citing a growing exhaustion with the instability and financial stress of metropolitan life, and a desire to focus on music with less distractions . 
In 2021, he returned to Chicago, IL, where he currently resides. 
==Career==
===Early years===
His music career began with playing in several hardcore punk, screamo, and grindcore bands and organizing concerts in his hometown, both with local acts and touring acts; notably Pianos Become the Teeth, Into It. Over It., Native, William Bonney, and Code Orange Kids; while still in their early days of DIY touring . Upon moving to Chicago, he initially was involved with the city's punk scene, then became involved with the scene for industrial, noise music, and Outsider house|outsider techno; establishing himself as an early purveyor of organizing events for the latter in a DIY setting with punk ethos. During these years, he performed in power electronics projects and began DJing caually in 2015. 
===DJ Speedsick===
In 2016, he began uploading recording experiments and demos to a SoundCloud account, of which he changed the artist handle frequently. Many of these recordings went on to become his debut album, Odyssey '97, upon being approached by Austin-based record label Breathing Problem Productions. He's stated that the name "DJ Speedsick" was not a moniker he intended to use, rather it was among the temporary names for his SoundCloud account when Breathing Problem happened to approach him, but that upon its positive reception, he decided to keep it 
Since the project's inception, he has prolifically released over 30 different titles on formats ranging from cassette, vinyl, compact disc, and digital streaming, and has worked with techno-oriented labels such as Bank Records NYC, Ophism Records, Lobster Theremin, and Psy X Records, as well as experimental/noise imprints such as Dead Gods, Fusty Cunt, Breathing Problem Productions, Psychic Liberation, and RRRecords, as well as self-released music through his own label Snake Eyes & Sevens . 
He has performed live and DJ'ed across North America. A series of scheduled appearances in Europe were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He has shared the stage with both electronic artists, as well as hardcore, metal, and experimental groups and artists, such as Lil Ugly Mane, Yves Tumor, Fleshwater, See You Next Tuesday, Drew McDowall, Usurp Synapse, Portrayal of Guilt, and No Warning .
==Style and Influences==
He has cited an expansive range of artists and institutions as major influences for his music, including, but not limited to; artists and groups such as Godflesh, Skinny Puppy, Marilyn Manson, Jeff Mills, Prurient, Whitehouse, Brand New, Jandek, Spiral Tribe, Dean Blunt, Indian Summer, record labels such as Drop Bass Network, Downwards Records, Bunker Records, Come Organisation, and Hospital Productions. In more general terms, he's taken musical inspiration from hardcore techno/speedcore, power electronics, industrial, Birmingham sound as well as late 90's/early aughts techno from Slovakia, Sweden, The Hague, Detroit, the free party/freetekno movement, French black metal, dungeon synth, mid aughts cybergrind and mathcore, electroacoustic music/musique concrète, and dub music 
He cites the soundtracks from skate videos and the emerging mathcore/deathcore scene of the mid-late 2000's and its presence on Myspace as the source of exposure to underground music in his early teen years, and he and his friends' desire to find "the most insane music possible" while exploring the social media platform.
For his output as DJ Speedsick, nearly all of his beat-driven music has been produced using the Electribe2 Sampler and Roland SH-01a (remake of the SH-101) , both of which he claims to have obtained very cheaply and without intention . He opts to record his music through an analog mixing console and directly to cassette/four-track, in one take, and largely improvised . His music within the realm of noise and dark ambient makes use of contact microphones, feedback loops, manipulated tapes, and field recordings.
His visual art practice largely involves the use of home desktop printers' copier/scanner functions to heavily manipulate, warp, and distort visual collages and other imagery. It draws influence from Xerox art, archival documentation, tape trading & zine culture, punk and industrial, flyers, death metal logos, wildstyle graffiti, and black metal imagery.
==Discography==
Year	Title 	Label 	Country 	Format 	Notes
2017	Motorhead Disco 	self-released 	USA 	Cassette 	DJ mixtape, reissued in 2020
2017	Odyssey '97 	Breathing Problem Productions	USA 	Cassette 	Debut EP
2017	N.Y.S.S. 	Dead Gods 	USA 	Cassette 	
2017	Spiral '07 	Breathing Problem Productions	USA 	Cassette 	Partial reissue of "Odyssey '97"
2018	In Trances 	Snake Eyes & Sevens 	USA 	Cassette 	
2018	Death Trip '17 	Breathing Problem Productions	USA 	Cassette 	
2019	Nothing Lasts 	BANK Records NYC 	USA 	Cassette 	Reissued in 2024 on CDr
2019	Dance With The Devil 	BANK Records NYC 	USA 	12" Vinyl, Cassette	Vinyl debut
2019	Midwest Tour Tape 	self-released 	USA 	Cassette 	Three-way split with Julien Andreas and Human Host, only available at Midwest tour dates
2020	Blood Mixed With Shit Mixed With Blood 	Psychic Liberation 	Netherlands 	CD 	
2020	7 7 7 	Breathing Problem Productions	USA 	Cassette 	Triple cassette boxset featuring previously unreleased recordings from 2016-2017
2020	Untitled 	self-released 	USA 	Cassette 	
2020	Turn Illness Into A Weapon 	Ophism 	Italy 	12" Vinyl 	
2020	Electromagnetic Chauvinism 	Fusty Cunt 	USA 	Cassette 	
2021	Drift 	self-released 	USA 	Cassette 	
2021	Snake Pit LSD 	DNA Records 	USA 	Cassette 	
2021	ARCHIVE0001 ('Disembodiment') 	self-released 	USA 	Cassette 	
2022	Midwest Death Trance 	Techno Is the Devil's Music 	UK 	12" Vinyl 	
2022	Spectres 	PSY X 	Russia/Germany	12" Vinyl 	Split with Buttechno
2023	Concrete Hell 	self-released 	USA 	Digital 	
2023	Faces.Of.Death.1978.VHSRip.XviD-DJSS.nfo 	self-released 	USA 	CDr, Cassette 	DJ mixtape
2023	temp∕eeeb7dc∕.DS_Store 	self-released 	USA 	CDr 	
2024	Recycled Music 	RRRecords 	USA 	Cassette 	RRRecords "Recycled Music" series
2024	Satanic Connection Between UNIX® And The Underworld	Escalationist 	USA 	CDr 	
2024	Untitled 	Escalationist 	USA 	CDr 	3" business card-shaped CDr containing drum samples and loops
Category:1992 births
Category talk:People from Brookfield, Wisconsin
Category:American musicians
Category:American people