Alex Marenga aka AMPTEK, producer, composer, guitarist, video director, dj and electronic musician. He founded his experimental project AMPTEK, the electro-funk crossover band ENTROPIA, the techno-electro project Auto.Vox, the ambient project ZIQQURAT VERTIGO, the experimental band FRAMMENTI DI CAOS, and the experimental rock-band EXIT STRATEGY. With AMPTEK name he recorded e.p. and albums for NATURE RECORDS, Timeout Records, SYNCRETIC records and Eclectic Records, His remixed tracks published with BMG Ariola, Nature, BrokenPot Hill, Slavik and more. (see discography down) As composer, guitarist and producer, Amptek recorded with band Entropia three albums, "Imaginary Solutions" (1997), "Vertical Invader" (2000) and "The Ultimate Eclectic Cinedelic Experience (funky cops and hardboiled girls)" (Noshame USA) (2005). He played with this bands in many festival and rave parties: Distorsionie, Electroma, Bitz, Gazodrome, Roma Incontra il Mondo and more. He created some musical shows on the italian radios, like La Danza della Mente and Musica Machina with Recycle, The ZONE with Lius and DjMat, Falso Movimento with Giona A. Nazzaro. He collaborated with other projects like RECYCLE, REMO REMOTTI, EVA MILAN, MAURO TIBERI, SIMMETRIE, EPSILON INDI, DERIVA, YAX and in the last years with PRINCE FASTER, the poet and singer DANIELE AMENTA, and ETRURIA CRIMINALE BANDA (ECB POST POPULAR ORCHESTRA). He founded the indipendent label ECLECTIC RECORDS, now called ECLECTIC PRODUCTIONS and the visual project AMPGAN SOYUZ with GIONA A. NAZZARO. In the last years his experimentation taked several directions, like guitarist in electronic manipulation of guitar timbres, like electronic musician in the possibilities of spatialization of the sounds through the use of quadriphonic or surrounds systems. Amptek are composer of music for motion pictures, television show, cd-rom, dvd and web sites. "The Eclipse of the Reason" is a new chapter of Amptek's explorations in electronic sound. The title track is a suite in four parts about the influences of media society on human mind.