Released
1998
Label
DSBP
Reviewed by
Ben Didier
Contact
237 Cagua NE
Albuquerque NM
87108 USA
Last Edit/Update
5 Jan, 1999
Digital:6::Focus:A
various artists
Track Listing
1. Front Runner- Darkness Trip
2. Front Runner- Freedom
3. Front Runner- BTYS v1.0
4. diverje- Put the Flesh In
5. diverje- Tragic Lost
6. diverje- To Hell
7. Clone DT- Qwerty
8. Clone DT- Store & Forward
9. Clone DT- AAL
10. [inquest proxy]- Threat
11. [inquest proxy]- Talons World
12. [inquest proxy]- Condemned Nation
13. Dead Jump- Faces
14. Dead Jump- As You Climb
It's CD compilations like this that justify putting up with DSBP label owner Tommy T. Rapisardi's foul-mouthed antics. If it were up to him, hard electro beats and industrial grooves would be blaring on every street corner in America, drowning out all the Spice Girls and Backstreet Boys of the world. Not to mention his commencement of public lynchings of each and every NIN/Manson fan to ever walk the earth. "Digital:6::Focus:A" is as good a start at this as one could hope for.
All six bands are solo projects, and they each contribute a couple of tracks a piece to this disk. Three of them are from New Mexico, the other three from Brazil; two of which from none other than Tommy T. himself. Heavily distorted vocals, infectious beats, and thickly layered synth work characterize most of these tracks, which to no surprise are best described as dark industrial / hard electro.
Whether you like Tommy T. or not is inconsequential; at some point you'll have to come to terms with the fact that he's releasing some increasingly worthwhile music down there at the bottom of the continent. He's one to make his presence in the scene known, and you'll undoubtedly be hearing more from DSBP in the months and years to come.
