40 Octaves Below – Digital Fracture (CD Album – Itsalive Network Enterprises)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro.
Background/Info: 40 Octaves Below is a Canadian project. This album took 13 years (!) to get achieved and learnt that ‘sound is a wave 40 octaves lower than the frequency of light’.
Content: This project clearly sounds inspired by EBM and dark-electronics. The production is pretty rough, unpolished, revealing industrial sound treatments and somewhat reminding me of productions from the 90s. I get the feeling you can hear that the songs were composed over a long period as especially the second half of the album sounds more elaborated.
+ + + : This work will appeal to lovers of 90s EBM. It’s an old-fashioned production, which sounds rather simple although some cuts are a little more sophisticated. “Creep-U” is a song revealing a bit more potential and definitely the path to follow!
– – – : Generally speaking, the sound production and mix of this album are rather poor and not very professional.
Conclusion: 40 Octaves Below first of all has to improve the global production process, but especially focus on a better mix and recording.
Best songs: “Creep-U”, “siKr – Original Incept Mix”.
Rate: (5).
Artist: www.facebook.com/40octavesbelow
About 40 Octaves Below
40 Octaves Below is the industrial project of Drake Moore, based in Vancouver, Canada. “Digital Fracture” took thirteen years to complete. Since then, 40 Octaves Below has released the compilation “MetaVersUs Remixed” (2023) and the album “Industrial Vomitorium” (2024).
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