Malfunct was founded with the name Malfunction in year 2000 by Eray
Ozkural,
Arda Tipi and Murat Uney. We experimented with a lot of styles from
industrial
metal to EBM, and as far as we know we are the first band in Turkey to
give serious attention to EBM, strange as it sounds. In preceding
years, Eray worked on experiments in computer music while
Arda perfected a progressive guitar style and Murat was the master of
thrashing riffs and
sound manipulations on the guitar. Two productive years in 2000 and
2001 gave birth to the initial but decisive sound of the band.
Following a hiatus in 2002 due to relocations and other difficulties,
Eray continued producing and composing on his own, towards the sound of
malfunction, renaming the project as Malfunct since there was an old
metal band with the name Malfunction.
Some results of this work are available on this site.
A 1 hour long demo CD called "Promo Machine" that contains 17 tracks
was distributed to selected people which contained pieces from a wide
variety of styles including
old school industrial, EBM, industrial metal, electro metal, IDM, etc.
in 2005, most of which were instrumental. This is the era after Promo
Machine and it features a more "professional" sound, i.e. sounds just
like other bands!