Greg Wygonik’s Cut.Rate.Box, a project spanning electro-industrial and future pop, released “Maps of Stone” on 13 February 2026 through Alfa Matrix. The digital retrospective offers 23 remastered recordings from 1988 to 2025, sequenced in reverse so that the newest material comes first and the earliest recordings come last.
“Maps of Stone” is available now on the Alfa Matrix store, and you can stream the full retrospective on Bandcamp.
An archive dig, newest first
The album is pitched as a dig through the vaults instead of a typical greatest-hits set. Fresh tracks tied to the 2025 revival share space with demos, previously unissued songs, early cassette material and other finds. The sound moves between EBM, melodic future pop, harsher industrial electronics and tape-warped experiments, and the comparisons on offer run from Haujobb, Covenant and Assemblage 23 to VNV Nation, Skinny Puppy and Mentallo & The Fixer.
A number of the 2025 tracks look back to recent releases, namely the “Reel Life” single and the “Luxury Anxiety” EP.
Running order, from 2025 back to 1988
The order runs strictly from newest to oldest. The album opens with the video-era takes on “Isticism” and “Reel Life,” both connected to “Luxury Anxiety,” and closes with a new 2025 re-take of the early piece “Sing World Collapse.” On Bandcamp each title carries its year stamp, something streaming services will not accept, so the names shown there differ a little from this list.
- “Isticism” (Video Version 2025) – 3:54
- “Reel Life” (demo 2025) – 3:38
- “Slip Away” (2005) – 5:15
- “Letting Go” (2005) – 3:41
- “Thin Air” (2001) – 5:11
- “Zionsank” (2001) – 4:18
- “New Religion” (2000) – 6:05
- “Misery” (2000) – 5:09
- “Synthetic” (demo 2000) – 3:56
- “Gravity” (1999) – 4:48
- “Pressing the Little” (1999) – 4:24
- “Temples” (demo 1997, unreleased) – 4:19
- “Disease v1” (1995, unreleased) – 4:51
- “MSFK” (1995, unreleased) – 2:07
- “Pass” (1995, unreleased) – 3:42
- “Unnamed” (1992, unreleased) – 1:49
- “Mine Eyes” (1992) – 5:58
- “Hemisphere” (1991) – 4:27
- “Hell” (1990) – 4:15
- “Falling” (1990, unreleased) – 3:19
- “Lyly” (1989) – 2:44
- “Sing World Collapse” (1988, unreleased) – 1:35
- “Sing World Collapse Revisited” (2025) – 3:22
About Cut.Rate.Box
The story begins in Florida in 1989, when Greg Wygonik launched Cut.Rate.Box. Largely a one-man operation at first, it added Shred and Chuck Kelly for live work, and its earliest gigs were warm-ups for acts like Pigface and Foetus. A self-released cassette earned spots on compilations tied to magazines such as Permission and Industrial Nation, and part of it resurfaced with new songs as “Distemper” in 1992, the year Wygonik moved to Chicago.
Settling next in New Orleans, Wygonik joined forces with guitarist Clint Sand (then of Ex-Voto), making Cut.Rate.Box a duo. Their 1999 EP “blueiceblack” sparked label interest and deals with Gashed! Records, then WTII Records for the US and Accession Records for Europe. Supports for Nine Inch Nails and Pop Will Eat Itself followed, plus a Convergence 5 festival slot alongside Clan of Xymox. The albums “New Religion” (2000) and “Dataseed” (2001/2002) reached both continents via Accession/WTII, and heavy touring through the early 2000s included headlining the first night of Infest 2003.
Hurricane Katrina pushed Wygonik to Austin, Texas, where he kept the project alive solo and wrote the songs that became “Xenophobe,” later an EP on WTII Records. Releases under the name then stopped for a long stretch while Wygonik focused on designing hardware and software synthesizers, until the project came back to life in 2025. “Reel Life” arrived as a digital single that June, and September saw the EP “Luxury Anxiety,” four tracks long, released through Alfa Matrix.
The same year the project also lent reworks to other projects: “Catastrophes? Absurdity! – Remixes” and the label sampler “Matrix+ Downloaded 012.” More news on the project is collected on the Cut.Rate.Box tag page, and the wider label catalogue can be explored on the Alfa Matrix Bandcamp.