Digital Factor drop new album ‘0.8’ on Alfa Matrix today
Out todai is the all new album from the German EBM act Digital Factor: “0.8”. Released via Alfa Matrix, it features guests Franziska Haucke and Marie-Luis Kiessling.
Digital Factor
Today the German EBM and electro duo Digital Factor have officially released their new album “0.8” through the Belgian label Alfa Matrix. The twelve-track record arrives on CD (available via Alfa Matrix), and in digital formats. It follows the band’s 2021 album “A Chemical Process” and the 2023 charity album “G.B.A. – General Behavior Abrogate“.
The band now is a duo with Mike Langer and permanent new member Gwendolyn Gaffa who already contributed on the EP “They Will Forget You (When You Die)” and on the 2023 charity single “I Am What I Am“, released as a free download.
We published a full interview with Digital factor two days ago.
‘0.8’ tracklist, guests and 1980s concept
The album contains twelve tracks and two guest features. Franziska Haucke appears on “Never”, and Marie-Luis Kiessling features on “We Are Blind”.
The record is a return to the band’s formative era, diving deep into the musical and cultural DNA of the 1980s. The first single “They Will Forget You (When You Die)” for instance already carries a nod to Depeche Mode’s “People Are People”, while the album track “Time” is presented as a homage to Kraftwerk.
Langer also used a special production method for “0.8”. He deliberately stepped away from modern production perfection, using stripped-down setups and monophonic synths to recreate the raw textures and subtle imperfections of early electronic music.
Good to know, “Feel To Little” uses speech fragments from Charlie Chaplin films, while “Never” is set to a James Bond-style atmosphere.
About Digital Factor
The band formed in 1993 in Altenburg, Germany. The founding lineup consisted of Torsten Heise, Mike Langer and Tino Schmidt. The project first brought a mix of EBM and electro, later adding techno, synth-pop and crossover elements,. They played early live support for acts such as Placebo Effect and X Marks the Pedwalk.
The band’s first release was the 1994 EP “F.A.L.L.I.N.G.- Down” on Hard Records. A move to Hyperium and Hypnobeat followed, bringing the debut album “Relationchips” in 1995 and the conceptual second album “On Demand” in 1996.
Further releases included “De Facto” and “Countercheck” in 1997 and “Over One Million Times” in 1999, then “One More Piece” in 2006, “Look Back To Go Forward” in 2009 and “Trialog” in 2011. Tino Schmidt left the band in its earlier years, and in 2010 Torsten Heise left and was replaced by Leo von Leibnitz.
The band joined Alfa Matrix in 2020 and released the single and video ‘Come With Me’ in October of the same year.
The album “A Chemical Process” arrived in 2021, alongside remastered reissues of the back catalogue. The EP “What?” followed in 2022, and 2023 brought the charity single “I Am What I Am“, the “Ouvre” EP and the charity album “G.B.A. – General Behavior Abrogate“.
In April 2026, the EP “They Will Forget You (When You Die)” previewed the new album “0.8”, out now on Alfa Matrix.
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