Английская Википедия:Darker (album)
Darker is the debut studio album of C-Tec, released on 1 September 1997 by Synthetic Symphony.[1][2] The album showcases the band wanting to experiment by integrating different styles and textures into their compositions after the release of their 1995 EP Cyber-Tec.[3] On 5 October 2018 the album was reissued as a music download with an additional track titled "My Unbreakable Code" and written by Marc Heal.
Reception
Greg Prato of AllMusic said "the aptly titled Darker is industrial-influenced, aggressive electronic dance music with all of the necessary ingredients for success -- the vocals are sung with the mandatory pissed-off foreign accent, and the music drills into your brain with ease."[4] Pitchfork Media described the music as having "high-energy, egomaniacal attitudes" and claimed "as any good darkwave album would, it also takes a plunge into the lonelier side of despair and isolation."[5] In May 1998 the album peaked at numbers eight and sixty-one on CMJ New Music Monthly's top dance releases and top radio airplay.[6][7]
Track listing
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Accolades
| Year | Publication | Country | Accolade | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | CMJ New Music Monthly | United States | "Top 25 Dance" | 8 | [6] |
| "CMJ Radio Airplay: Top 75" | 61 | [7] | |||
| "*" denotes an unordered list. | |||||
Personnel
Adapted from the Darker liner notes.[8]
C-Tec
- Jean-Luc De Meyer – vocals
- Ged Denton – keyboards
- Marc Heal – keyboards, vocals, production
'Additional performers
- Phil Barry – sampler
- Rhys Fulber – sampler, additional production
- Björn Jünemann – sampler
- Daniel Myer – sampler
- Dejan Samardzic – sampler
Production and design
- Jim Marcus – cover art (reissue)
- Doug Martin – engineering, additional production
- Jules Seifert – remastering (reissue)
Release history
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Europe | 1997 | Synthetic Symphony | CD | CD 085-61572 SPV |
| United States | Wax Trax!/TVT | TVT 7252 | ||
| 1998 | CS | |||
| Poland | 2004 | Союз/Synthetic Symphony | CS | 085-61572 SPV |
| United Kingdom | 2018 | Armalyte Industries | DL |
References
External links
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокallmusicне указан текст - ↑ Ошибка цитирования Неверный тег
<ref>; для сносокpitchforkне указан текст - ↑ 6,0 6,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ 7,0 7,1 Шаблон:Cite journal
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite AV media notes
