# @thefader on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DBZYsCPR1yP
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- **Posted:** 2024-10-21T18:42:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The FADER (@thefader) — https://gondola.cc/thefader

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Both Long Island natives, Machine Girl’s Sean Kelly and Matt Stephenson first bonded as teens, finding common ground in the left-field dance music of Aphex Twin and DJ Rashad — “The first traction I got was from a footwork community on Facebook,” Stephenson says — and the industrial freak rap of Death Grips. They also shared a stubborn streak in support of heavy nerd rockers like Primus and Mr. Bungle, and the decreasingly cool nu-metal acts they’d grown up on: Slipknot and System of a Down, of course, but also artists who still haven’t received their popular Renaissance.

“We liked Incubus… a lot,” Kelly says. “The first Incubus LP has the first jungle/drum-and-bass that I heard as a teenager. They let the DJ go crazy on some outro or hidden track, and I showed Matt. I wasn’t like, ‘This is drum and bass!’ I was like, ‘This is Incubus. Check this out.’”

Over the past decade, the duo’s interests have grown more esoteric: Jungian psychology, Jodorowskian psychomagic, and tarot, to name a few. The fixation shoe still fits, though. On MG Ultra, Stephenson and Kelly pay gleeful, horrifying homage to the most obsessed obsession of them all: the conspiracy theory.

Read hamiltonthemixtape’s machin3gir1 profile at the link in bio, or head to TheFADER.com.

📸 signepierce and molly.a.pop 

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