Sometime in 1997, Steve Machado began using Vio-Lence songs to create his own remixes; essentially combining the guitar tracks from the original songs to his own beats and sequences. An amalgam of house music and thrash metal, it was not just an original method of covering his favorite music, it was a fairly new approach to music in general. Realizing Machado and Demmel had a mutual friend, Machado passed along some of his tapes to Demmel and he was impressed.

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