ICD-10 – Irregular Cerebral Device (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Two years after the official debut album “Differential Diagnosis” ICD-10 is back on track. The band now consists of three full-time members: Henning Hinck, Daniel Himmelreich and Thorsten Felix.
Content: The new stuff moves on where “Differential Diagnosis” stopped; a heavy sonic travel throughout the realms of Dark-Techno music mixed with heavy Industrial components. This is music for Industrial dancefloors. The tracks feature multiple subtle noise treatments accentuating the dark side of the work.
+ + + : The sound formula created by ICD-10 is not new at all, but they achieved it with intelligence. It’s not just a heavy, pumping production, but also a composition with numerous sonic details like refined noises, which you better can discover by using headphones. “Ishimura” is a track I want to mention as it’s a brilliant composition revealing explicit Electronic sequences and evolving into a transcendental climax.
– – – : The only point that might hurt with this kind of production is the repetitive character of the songs. So in the end it starts to become a little bit predictable.
Conclusion: If music could bite, ICD-10 would be a merciless T-Rex!
Best songs: “Ishimura”, “Flatline”, “Dark Matters”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/ICD10official
Label: www.handsproductions.com / www.facebook.com/hands.official
About ICD-10
ICD-10 is an industrial techno project from Marburg, Germany, named after the WHO classification of diseases. Henning Hinck and Daniel Himmelreich started making music together around 2011, according to the September 2019 ‘Click Interview’ with ICD-10; Discogs dates the formal start of the duo to 2013. Both worked with Wolfram Bange of Phasenmensch, supporting him on stage from 2016 and sharing the collaboration album Divinity Unity Nothingness, released on Hands in 2017 and reviewed on Side-Line in January 2018. Techno producer and DJ Thorsten Felix joined at the start of 2018 and is a full member since 2019.
The official debut album Differential Diagnosis came out on Hands in 2019 and was reviewed on Side-Line in August of that year. “Irregular Cerebral Device” followed on 4 June 2021 as a CD in a Hands paper pack and as a download. The ten tracks are “Flatline”, “Simex”, “Shenzen”, “Dark Matters”, “Collective Idealism”, “No Mercy”, “Ishimura”, “Hitech Warfare”, “To Be A Bat” and “Endorno”. The trio wrote and produced the album, Interzone Mastering mastered it and Nicola Bork made the artwork and photography.
The band contributed to the label compilations “Forms Of Hands 18”, “Forms Of Hands 19”, Forms Of Hands 20, Forms Of Hands 23 and “Forms Of Hands 25”. Later releases are the digital EP “Enter The Vault” (2023) and the CD album “Quantum Disruption” (2026), both on Hands. ICD-10 is on the bill of the Beats and Noise event at the Kulttempel in Oberhausen on 10 October 2026. “Irregular Cerebral Device” is the second ICD-10 album for the label.
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