Illegal Machines is a French psychedelic trance producer, Fabien, who works within a number of related projects and live contexts. The act is based in France and is associated with darkpsy, psytrance, psychedelic trance, and dark psychedelic trance.

Projects and collaborations

Illegal Machines is created with Yan, who later leaves the project to concentrate on his own work. Fabien also appears in Psykodroïds, billed as Illegal Machines & Friends, and in Pirated Machines with Toto WP. In addition, he plays in Terraformers, leaving that group at the end of 2006.

Performance history

The project performs at events including the Soulclipse solar eclipse gathering in Turkey and Boom Festival 2006.

Musical style and influences

The music is described as drawing on a wide range of styles and artists. Named influences include Squarepusher, Autechre, AFX, Funkstörung, Snake Ting, Kox Box, Alec Empire, Phoenecia and Autophonic. This mix informs a sound built around psychedelic textures, acid leads and groovy basslines.