Machinedrum (Travis Stewart) is a music producer and film composer originally from North Carolina, now residing in California.
Travis has released multiple albums on labels such as Ninja Tune, Planet Mu, LuckyMe, Hotflush and Merck. He has produced for a wide range of vocalists including Azealia Banks, A$AP Ferg, Shelley FKA DRAM, Tanerélle, Jesse Boykins III, Theophilus London and Dawn Richard.
Additionally, Machinedrum has worked alongside producers Jimmy Edgar for their project J-E-T-S, Braille (Praveen Sharma) under their alias Sepalcure, and Om Unit for their rave inspired footwork project Dream Continuum. Travis has also collaborated with instrumentalists like piano virtuoso Tigran Hamasyan, progressive guitarist Tosin Abasi (Animals As Leaders), versatile drummer Ian Maciak, multi instrumentalist Laura Escudé, and jazz drummer Steve Lyman. Machinedrum has remixed artists such as Solange, Bonobo, Kelis, Rudimental, Jamie Lidell, DJ Shadow, Emily King, Noisia, SBTRKT, The Glitch Mob, Eprom, and even Johnny Cash.
Machinedrum has scored film and TV under his real name Travis Stewart. Credits include Aronofsky's Black Swan and the German true-crime drama Das Geheimnis Des Totenwaldes known internationally as Dark Woods. In addition to film and TV scoring, he also helped score the off-broadway musical Camp Wanatachi.
