badmike
About badmike
badmike is the musical outlet of Michael Wallner — a Vienna-based developer & digital artist who makes dark, experimental IDM in the hours between builds. The sound is glitch-scarred and emotionally heavy, owing as much to the bruised melodicism of Lorn as to the machine-funk of Daft Punk and the raw aggression of The Prodigy. Born in 1983 near Salzburg, badmike started composing electronic music in 1995 and never stopped, even as code became the day job. That engineer's precision bleeds into the work: textures are built like systems, AI-assisted and then broken on purpose. Music is one of several channels for a restless creative life. The name nods to Detroit's Mad Mike, but the identity is his own. A crossdresser who came out in his 30s, badmike makes art from the tension between control and surrender — all-black, gender-bending, unapologetic. Since 2023 he has also followed Jesus, a search for meaning running strongly within the noise. Man with extras. Machines with feelings.
badmike is the musical outlet of Michael Wallner — a Vienna-based developer & digital artist who makes dark, experimental IDM in the hours between builds. The sound is glitch-scarred and emotionally heavy, owing as much to the bruised melodicism of Lorn as to the machine-funk of Daft Punk and the raw aggression of The Prodigy. Born in 1983 near Salzburg, badmike started composing electronic music in 1995 and never stopped, even as code became the day job. That engineer's precision bleeds into the work: textures are built like systems, AI-assisted and then broken on purpose. Music is one of several channels for a restless creative life. The name nods to Detroit's Mad Mike, but the identity is his own. A crossdresser who came out in his 30s, badmike makes art from the tension between control and surrender — all-black, gender-bending, unapologetic. Since 2023 he has also followed Jesus, a search for meaning running strongly within the noise. Man with extras. Machines with feelings.