Telemetrik —

Marcio Alvarado, known professionally as Telemetrik (and later releasing under the alias Alvin Risk), is an American electronic music producer and DJ based in Washington, D.C. Within drum and bass and adjacent bass music, his recorded output spans jungle, liquid funk and darker, technical drum & bass under the Telemetrik/Corrupt Souls name, and later bass/dubstep-leaning material as Alvin Risk on labels such as OWSLA and Dim Mak. Telemetrik’s earliest public footprint comes as one half of the drum-and-bass duo Corrupt Souls, a partnership with producer Impulse. Corrupt Souls released music on established DnB imprints including Moving Shadow, Renegade Hardware and Ohm Resistance — labels associated with precise break programming and heavier, technical palettes. As Telemetrik he released the album My Lightyear on Black Sun Empire in 2008. After that period he began releasing under the Alvin Risk alias, appearing on OWSLA and Dim Mak; those label credits signal a shift toward wider bass-music and production work beyond strict DnB releases. As a producer Telemetrik’s work is notable for focused break editing, layered bass design and atmospheric detail. On the Corrupt Souls releases and on My Lightyear you can hear meticulous edit work on drum breaks — chopped and resampled hits stacked with tight transient shaping — combined with multi-layered low end and processed midrange grit. His arrangements tend to place complex break permutations and percussion rolls against darker pads and industrial textures, a production approach that aligns with the technical DnB aesthetic tied to Renegade Hardware and Ohm Resistance releases. Beyond raw breakwork, Telemetrik’s signatures include precise bass routing and saturation choices that keep low-frequency energy forward while preserving percussion clarity. In studio terms this shows up as deliberate use of layering, selective distortion on mids, and sidechain/level automation to keep drums punchy when heavy bass elements enter. Those techniques translate across his output: from the more DnB-focused Telemetrik and Corrupt Souls material to the Alvin Risk singles on OWSLA and Dim Mak, where sound design and bass timbre become central compositional elements. Career highlights tied to verifiable releases are: Corrupt Souls (with Impulse) placing tracks on Moving Shadow, Renegade Hardware and Ohm Resistance; Telemetrik’s My Lightyear album on Black Sun Empire in 2008; and later releases under Alvin Risk on OWSLA and Dim Mak. Those credits trace a trajectory from underground, technical drum & bass into a broader bass-music practice while keeping production craft—break programming, bass stacking, and detailed sound design—at the centre of his work. Public biographical detail about personal influences is limited; however, the labels and collaborators named above indicate close working ties to the technical/driven side of DnB in his Telemetrik era and to bass-forward electronic music in his Alvin Risk era. My Lightyear (2008) and the Corrupt Souls catalog remain the clearest, verifiable reference points for Telemetrik’s recorded contribution to drum and bass.