The machine is grinding back to life.

Electronic agitator SPANKTHENUN, in collaboration with Belgian EBM pioneers A Split-Second, has officially released “Broken Machine”—a comprehensive New Beat and EBM reworking of the 1989 industrial landmark “Muscle Machine.”

Originally issued via Wax Trax! Records and Antler Records, Muscle Machine helped define an era of body-driven electronics and militant club culture. With Broken Machine, that original blueprint has been fully dismantled and reassembled for the present day.

This reboot doesn’t chase nostalgia—it weaponizes it. Classic structures are deconstructed and reshaped to reflect modern system failure, societal decay, and the grinding tension of a world stuck in perpetual malfunction. The result is a stark, club-focused release that bridges late-’80s industrial DNA with contemporary EBM and New Beat aesthetics.

Broken Machine stands as both a tribute and a warning: the systems we built are cracking, and the soundtrack has been rewritten to match the collapse.

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