Eprom

EPROM (stylised EPROM) is the stage name of Alexander Dennis, an American producer and DJ originally from San Francisco and now based in Portland, Oregon. His work sits across bass music, dubstep, drumstep and glitch, and also draws on drum and bass, acid house and electronica as part of an experimental bass vocabulary.

Dennis began producing at age 13. He worked as a graphic and web designer before his first commercial release, the 64 Bytes EP, arrived in 2007. From that early single-artist start he moved into full-length studio work, releasing Metahuman in 2012, Halflife in 2013 and Syntheism in 2023.

As a producer, Eprom’s sound centres on meticulous sound design and low-frequency weight. He stacks heavily processed bass tones with metallic, high-frequency transients and granular textures. Breaks are chopped and re-sequenced rather than left whole; percussion often arrives as fractured, clipped hits layered with pitch-shifted room samples. He favours dense resampling and distortion to turn simple waveforms into harmonically rich bass masses, and uses acid-tinged lines and washed pads to add melodic tension. The result crosses dubstep’s sub pressure, drumstep’s tempo shifts and glitch’s stuttering edits into compressed, industrial-leaning arrangements.

On the record level, Metahuman (2012) and Halflife (2013) established that palette: heavy low end, abrasive midrange detail and tight, processed breaks. Syntheism (2023) continued that trajectory while expanding textural layers and synth-driven motifs across longer-form tracks. The 64 Bytes EP (2007) marks his first public statement but the albums map a clear progression from raw bass experiments toward more fully realised, synth-led compositions.

EPROM performs as both producer and DJ. In DJ sets he blends his own tracks and edits with forward-facing bass music and drumstep material, using abrupt transitions and edited versions to keep energy focused on sub frequency and rhythmic impact. As a producer he contributes original releases and collaborative work; he is one half of the duo Shades with Alix Perez, a formal partnership that places his sound-design approach alongside Perez’s drum-and-bass sensibility.

His professional name comes from the EPROM memory chip, a concrete reference he has carried throughout his career and one that signals a tech-oriented approach to sound and design. Publicly documented collaborations include his membership in Shades with Alix Perez; other specific collaborative credits are not listed in the supplied source material.

EPROM’s recorded timeline—64 Bytes (2007), Metahuman (2012), Halflife (2013) and Syntheism (2023)—and his ongoing role as a producer/DJ remain the clearest, verifiable threads of his career to date.