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05:22:09:12 Off is an album by Industrial
/EBM
group Front 242
. It was released by Sony
on 2 November 1993 (see 1993 in music
). The album's title is a simple substitution cipher
for the word "evil"; where each letter is represented by its equivalent numerical position in the alphabet
.
The album was unusual in that it primarily features a female voice, that of Christine "99" Kowalski, on vocals, with Jean-Luc De Meyer only appearing on a few tracks.
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
/EBM
Electronic body music
Electronic body music or industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music...
group Front 242
Front 242
Front 242 is a pioneering Belgian electronic music group that came into prominence during the 1980s. They are known for being the premier pioneer of electronic body music and as a major influence on the electronic and industrial music genres.-Formation:...
. It was released by Sony
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
on 2 November 1993 (see 1993 in music
1993 in music
This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993.-January–February:*January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992....
). The album's title is a simple substitution cipher
Substitution cipher
In cryptography, a substitution cipher is a method of encryption by which units of plaintext are replaced with ciphertext according to a regular system; the "units" may be single letters , pairs of letters, triplets of letters, mixtures of the above, and so forth...
for the word "evil"; where each letter is represented by its equivalent numerical position in the alphabet
Alphabet
An alphabet is a standard set of letters—basic written symbols or graphemes—each of which represents a phoneme in a spoken language, either as it exists now or as it was in the past. There are other systems, such as logographies, in which each character represents a word, morpheme, or semantic...
.
The album was unusual in that it primarily features a female voice, that of Christine "99" Kowalski, on vocals, with Jean-Luc De Meyer only appearing on a few tracks.
Reception
Track listing
Track 14 & 15 on CD version only.Personnel
- Daniel Bressanutti – Producer, Mixing
- Patrick Codenys – Producer, Mixing
- John Dubs – Producer
- Bob Ludwig – Mastering
- Eran Westwood – Producer, Mixing
- Jean-Luc De Meyer – vocals
- Daniel Bressanutti – keyboards, programming, live mixing
- Patrick Codenys – keyboards, programming, samplers
- Richard Jonckheere, often credited as "Richard 23" – percussion, vocals