Indeed, the music has to get louder. Music and its visuality is distributed more and more broadly via the Internet. It is between Youtube and Musicload where the ears of the listeners are not hit with the quiet tones. No, the opposite is the case. This also goes for the gentlemen of the Electro-EBM formation Digital Factor in the 15th year of their existence.
After the release of an album in 2006 with “One More Piece” (Wannsee/edel) on which the Electro Formation showed rather calmer tunes, the band now dedicates themselves back to the harder Electrogefilden.
Thus Digital Factor are raving on “look back to go forward” (Lukotyk/Prussia/Rough Trade) with stretched analog sequences and harsh rhythms. They actually look back to go forward, and attach themselves to their success albums such as “relation chip” (Hyperium/Indigo) from 1994 or “On Demand” (Hyperium/SPV) from 1996. Meanwhile, those CDs are completely sold out, and “look back to go forward” can certainly close this gap.“Before the production of the new album we have listened a lot to our old stuff, and had a lot of fun with it,” says Torsten Heise, initial member and owner of the Digital Factor studio. And that you can be certain about. Already with the opener “look back to go forward” the three gentlemen are becoming concrete. Here they play with the charme of the Elector-EBM in its actual sound wrapping.
The second track of the album, “Dein Herz” shows their attachement to the past of the 90s in the remix of the electro heros of Steril.
Songs like “Dopamin” or “Don’t wait” will remind the listeners also of the beginnings of Digital Factor. “While listening to our old stuff we have wondered how they would sound today. That was basically the starting point for the production of look back to go forward,” explains Mike Langer, also an initial band member.
And so the usual hardness of the band seeps through the whole album only to be interrupted by some calmer tones like the extraordinary "Picture" or the conclusion of the CD "Beauty Queen."
The musician who reside in Altenburg and Dresden roam with their texts in very different themes. They range from the use of natural drugs ("Dopamin"), the problems with the uncontrollable part of the Ego ("Face to Face") to the dark, satirical fear of every day live situations ("This is a test").
By the way, the album has been mastered in the Phage Studios (Front 242, Kirlian Camera, Das Ich) by Leo von Leibnitz.
Loud and hard has always been the domain of one of the first Electro EBM bands from East Germany. This is how DigitalFactor present themselves since their formation in 1993, and one is used to hearing them live. "We are anxious about every album because it is a reason for us to play live again," states Guido Litke of DigitalFactor.
Therefore, the three gentlemen will look back to the stages of Europe in order to rock forward.
Biography:
Digital Factor was founded in 1993 by Torsten Heise, Mike Langer and Tino Schmidt. In the same year they produced their first demotape “Suiciety". They gave different concerts in clubs, mainly as support act. During these period they sold about 300 tapes.
In 1994 they signed a contract with the Danish label "Hard Records" and released their first CD “Falling Down”. With this CD they entered different alternative charts all over Europe. They had their first television apperance at the German tv-station "MDR" in the show “top 6”.As a licence of Hyperium/Hypnobeat the band released the first longplayer “relationchip” in 1995. In 1996 the second album “On Demand” was released and Digital Factor made their first bigger tour together with the band Evils Toy.
The videoclip “X-Rayzor” shows different impressions of the tour. In 1997 the band released two further CDs. First they presented a limited editon of a metal box CD called “De Facto”. At this time the band was on a very techo-dance trip. The album “Countercheck” was the album for "hard German erlectro sound" fans. Both sides of the band had been presented on a consert tour through Germany, Netherlands, France and Belgium. Most of the concerts had an audience between 250 and 400 people. In 1999 Digital Factor produced the most successfully album “Over One Million Times”.
Also during the live activities they presented the hard techno-dance sound of the band. The highlight was the concert in the Moulin Rouge Club "La Loco". The Digital Factor support band were the swedish electro heroes Cat Rapes Dog. The videoclip to the song “Decisions” had been presented on the german-music television "VIVA2". After that Torsten Heise and Mike Langer worked as producer for different German bands from the pop and dance scene. Torsten also works for a big music-software-firm.
There he developes software for the consumer-music-market like Magix Music Maker. Mike these days produces stuff like music-videos, advertising and tv-movies.In 2002 Guido Litke entered the band and he is responsible for the new metal-techno style of the band. The band began to produce new material and after some years hard work they’ve released their 7th album “One More Piece” in 2006.
2008 the band went new ways. So they’ve released a single for the new album “Look Back To Go Forward” only online on their homepage. Thousands of fans have had the possiblity to downlad the “Dein Herz” complete free. With the single and the new album Digital Factor present themselves on a very hard Electro EBM Style, that remembers on the older times of the band.
Style:
Electro / EBM
Tracklist:
01. Look Back To Go Forward
02. Dein Herz (Steril Remix)
03. Face To Face
04. Dopamin
05. Picture
06. Don't Wait
07. Cogwheel
08. EGA (East German Attitude)
09. Dance To My Beat
10. He Was One Of These Guys
11. Electronic Body Makers
12. This Is A Test
13. Beauty Queen
Foundation:
1993
Bandmember:
Mike Langer (synth/voc)
Guido Litke (guit/dr)
Torsten Heise (synth/voc)
Release-Date:
23-01-2009
Order:
www.poponaut.de
BandWebsite:
www.digitalfactor.de
Band @ Myspace:
www.myspace.com/digitalfactor
Label:
www.lukotyk.com
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